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HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE
The whole system was "broken", Royal College of Emergency Medicine president-elect Dr Adrian Boyle said, with hospitals unable to...
HOW ARE WE REACTING TO COVID-19?
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.
Happy reading ...
- Aug 1
- 1 min
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
- 1 min
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...
- Jul 13
- 1 min
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 6
- 1 min
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...
- Jun 28
- 1 min
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 27
- 1 min
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 10
- 1 min
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 8
- 1 min
ADULTS WAITING FOR SOCIAL CARE..
The number of adults waiting for social care in England has risen sharply to more than 500,000, according to estimates by social work...
- May 27
- 1 min
GUARANTEED HOURS (2)
Last week we looked at problems faced by home care staff caused by the fact that their work, shifts and therefore pay are not guaranteed....
- May 25
- 2 min
GUARANTEED HOURS (1)
If you work in Tesco, and your manager asks you to drive to another store to pick up something, you would be paid for your time...
- May 13
- 1 min
AN AGENDA
CQC’s first step in the inspection process is to send out a “PIR”, or Provider Information Return. Providers must complete and return...
- May 5
- 1 min
PRICE RISES!
So the annual jamboree of price rises is over for another year. One local authority told its providers of the price rise on the 8th April...
- Apr 29
- 1 min
BLOCK CONTRACTS, CONTINUED..
We spoke last week about block contracts, and their dangers, and of individual budgets. Once issued, local authorities have an...
- Apr 22
- 1 min
BLOCK CONTRACTS
Some local authorities are still favouring block contracts. These contracts award large numbers of hours to providers who win a tender....
- Apr 14
- 1 min
THE PRICE OF HOME CARE - CONTINUED.
A large authority has recently published a tender for home care. It is based in the south of England. We have traded with the local...
- Apr 6
- 1 min
CHARITABLE WORK
Wouldn’t it be a good idea if we could get all social care staff to contribute something in the way of charity. It might be odd to ask...
- Mar 28
- 2 min
RETROSPECTIVE DISCOUNTS
We have talked for some weeks about prices, and have made the assumption that the gross margin a business needs to make, to cover costs...
- Mar 27
- 1 min
FAIR COST OF CARE .. CONTINUED
As we discussed last week, the Government has announced an initiative called Fair Cost of Care, which is attempting to address the...
- Mar 14
- 1 min
LOCAL AUTHORITY PRICES
We are keeping a watchful eye on local authority price increases from April. This really matters! Home care needs to give substantial...