AN AGENDA
CQCโs first step in the inspection process is to send out a โPIRโ, or Provider Information Return. Providers must complete and return...
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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.
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Happy reading ...
- 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
Wouldnโt 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 26
- 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...
- Mar 9
- 1 min
OPENING HOME CARE TO FOREIGN STAFF
So the government has changed its mind and has now allowed, at least for the foreseeable, workers to come from overseas to be employed in...
- Feb 28
- 1 min
CARE FRIENDS APP
So we at Bloomsbury have been using a newish app called Care Friends for a few weeks now. The app works by encouraging existing staff to...
- Feb 23
- 1 min
POWER OF THE NHS
We might be in danger of receiving threats this week.. Nevertheless we'd like to discuss the power of the NHS (whatโs new we hear you...
- Feb 23
- 1 min
HOME CARE VACCINES
So the government has back-tracked on its insistence that all NHS and social care staff be vaccinated by 1st April. What has driven this...
- Feb 7
- 1 min
BIG CORPORATE HOME CARE
Are we seeing the start of a big company takeover of home care? Certainly there has been significant corporate activity over the past few...
- Feb 7
- 1 min
IS THE WORM TURNING?
There are some signs that more money is, at last, going into home care. The sector has been under-funded for decades. As we have...
- Jan 24
- 1 min
JANUARY - THE MONTH FOR RECRUITMENT!
So we are well into January, perhaps the most miserable month of the year. Christmas is over, the weather is poor, and dry Januarys are...
- Jan 17
- 1 min
WHO IS MY BOSS (2)?
Ok, so last week we asked who, in a traditional home care office, is the support assistantโs boss. We struggled to identify someone who,...
- Jan 10
- 1 min
WHO IS MY BOSS?
๐ช๐ต๐ผ ๐ถ๐ ๐บ๐ ๐ฏ๐ผ๐๐? The traditional home care company has a peculiar structure. Typically there is one registered manager. There...
- Jan 3
- 1 min
THE EFFECT THE NHS COULD HAVE ON SOCIAL CARE
ยฃ700 per shift? So an ambulance driver in the NHS is being offered ยฃ700 to do a New Yearโs Eve shift. This is almost as much as home care...
- Dec 20, 2021
- 1 min
VACCINE, OR NOT?
Vaccine, or not? So the government has brought in regulations insisting that all social care staff are vaccinated. The rules have already...
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