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Welcome to our blog page!
Here you will find topics that we realise are relevant and relatable to our industry, and the views that we continue to maintain from our own experiences and observations.
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A SHRINKING WORKFORCE ...
Something we perhaps already knew. Skills for Care’s annual report has been published today: vacancy rates in adult social care have...
Nov 8, 20221 min read
DELAYS IN HOSPITAL DISCHARGE.
In the last week of August, 138,000 patients were still in hospital more than one week after they had met the criteria for discharge. So...
Nov 8, 20221 min read
FAIR COST OF CARE
£21 isn’t enough! So the first indications of the Fair Cost of Care results are beginning to come through. Leicestershire have just...
Nov 8, 20221 min read
MORE NONSENSE FROM COMMISSIONERS.
Suffolk County Council pays a miserly £19.84 per hour. This is a pro rata rate, so half an hour will merit £9.92, and 20 minutes £6.61....
Nov 8, 20221 min read
EXTRA FUNDING?
While extra funding from the new health and social care levy announced by the government in September 2021 will be welcome, substantial...
Nov 8, 20221 min read
WHERE HAVE ALL THE OVER 50's GONE?
The UK has seen one million people, mostly in their 50s, leave work since the start of the Covid-19 outbreak. Some of our best staff have...
Nov 8, 20221 min read
UNMET NEEDS ...
We are now seeing some real misery caused by the under-funding of the social care system. Firstly, people’s care needs are unmet or...
Nov 8, 20221 min read
WHERE WILL NEW MONEY GO?
The Government has increased NI contributions as we discussed last week, and with changes to dividend taxation will raise £36 billion...
Nov 8, 20221 min read
MORE FROM THE COMMITTEE *2
Yet more from the Committee. The NHS and social care are being treated differently. Last week I laid out some of the findings from the...
Nov 8, 20221 min read
MORE FROM THE COMMITTEE
Last week we laid out some of the findings from the report published in August by the House of Commons’ Committee for Levelling up. There...
Sep 5, 20221 min read
AT LAST, MP'S SIT UP AND TAKE NOTICE!
Ministers urgently need to provide more money for adult social care in England which has been "ravaged" by the Covid pandemic, a...
Sep 5, 20221 min read
FEMALE ONLY?
Level of care: QDS double up care 30, 60, 30, 45 female only Postcode: ******** Gender: Female This is one of many enquiries received...
Aug 17, 20221 min read
HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE
The whole system was "broken", Royal College of Emergency Medicine president-elect Dr Adrian Boyle said, with hospitals unable to...
Aug 11, 20221 min read
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
Latest figures from the Department of Health say that there are 10,000 patients in hospital who are ready for discharge. Some of these...
Aug 1, 20221 min read
COVID UPDATE
Hats off again to all our Bloomsbury staff. We are still testing twice a week for Covid and it is paying dividends with the increase in...
Aug 1, 20221 min read
REGULATION AND OBSERVING CARE
You may recall that in a previous discussion about regulating home care we made the point that a judgement about the quality of an...
Jul 13, 20221 min read
MASKS IN CARS
Some oddities still exist in the Covid world! Our staff are still doing twice-weekly testing. Staff are still being told to travel in the...
Jul 6, 20221 min read
COVID RESPONSE!
More information is slowly seeping out about how our government responded to the Covid pandemic. In summary, not very well. It is always...
Jun 28, 20221 min read
COMPLIMENTS
Last week we spoke of the efforts made by staff to contribute to the Queen’s Jubilee celebrations. Photos of grateful clients adorn our...
Jun 27, 20221 min read
IS THE GOVERNMENT'S FUNDING ENOUGH?
There were 249 million home care hours per year being delivered in 2016, according to the UKHCA. Let’s say that has now increased to 300...
Jun 10, 20221 min read
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