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How do you know they are a success asks 10 year old Healthwatch Harriet. Response: there is one care home in London where if people had to go into hospital they spent 12 days and they only now spend 8. And much more in this revealing video….
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Call for views on the purchasing of care home services
Scotland Excel is seeking views on how Scotland currently purchases care home services for older people and how it should do this in the future. We are asking people who use services, organisations who represent service users, carers, providers, health and social care partnerships and councils, to tell us what they think. Julie Welsh,…
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Registered Managers’ Membership Forum
Registered Managers are commonly the lead professionals in care home and home care services, with wide-ranging and demanding responsibilities. They have a pivotal leadership role and play a central part in ensuring that people who use services experience high quality care and support. Through registered manager membership, we can help you make even more of…
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Get real about integration!
Sharon Blackburn, the Policy and Communications Director of the National Care Forum, gives a care sector perspective on the realities of integration: There is nothing new about integration. It has long been spoken about and many attempts have been made over many years to make it a reality. People who use services, the public, generally…
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Health and Social Care Standards
The Scottish Government has published new National Care Standards. These will be taken into account when inspecting residential care homes from April 2018 http://www.newcarestandards.scot/
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Enhanced care in care homes: building on a promising start
Enhanced care in care homes: building on a promising start
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ICHA Commissioning Handbook 2016
residentialforum: The Independent Children’s Homes Association handbook includes messages from the CEO and Chairperson plus the code of practice and mission statement along with a full directory of members in England and Wales. CONTACT: email admin@icha.org.uk or telephone 07794 779893 ICHA Commissioning Handbook 2016
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Care Home market study
Market study concerned #carehomes may be breaking the law Consumer protection laws applied to residential care. Think about it – money back guarantees for poor service? Proper trade descriptions? https://t.co/CJp0goNcjL
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Personalisation in residential care
Personalisation in #carehomes for older people. https://t.co/AQZUuQNK5a
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The office
John Burton, who has managed a variety of care homes, looks at the only part of a children’s home that isn’t therapeutic. Noting that most of our own homes don’t have an office but “residential homes” generally do, he asks: why? At one level, it’s fair enough: we must keep money and other valuables, medicine…
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Care home abuse in North Devon
How can it happen that one of the victims was at Winterbourne View? So much for learning lessons. Successful prosecution of managers and directors is ground breaking. Perhaps commissioners should be in the dock as well. Care home abuse in North Devon
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Where is the customer in residential care services?
residentialforum: Des Kelly OBE, Trustee of the Residential Forum, reflects on a workshop that asked whether the residential care market was a myth or reality. He shares the flavour of contributions and concludes that the customer can easily get overlooked in the worlds of regulation, commissioning and procurement. I admit I wasn’t sure that ‘Residential…
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What is the best initiative to support your residential service?
residentialforum: Tracy Wharvell is the Development Director at the National Care Association and a Residential Forum member. Her career in social care began over thirty years ago as a practitioner providing social care, but now she asks how well NHS initiatives are meeting the aim of supporting care homes. Have you been asked? There are significant amounts…
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Just when is residential care not residential care?
residentialforum: Nick Johnson, former Chief Executive of the Social Care Association, social care practitioner, manager and member of the Residential Forum considers some of the challenges to the purpose and image of residential care home living. Many years ago, when trying to define whether a couple were cohabiting for benefit entitlement, the criteria were,…
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Virtual reality helps hospice patients, 31/03/2017, Inside Out London – BBC One
Charities take their first steps into virtual reality Virtual reality helps hospice patients, 31/03/2017, Inside Out London – BBC One
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What is the best initiative to support your residential service?
Tracy Wharvell is the Development Director at the National Care Association and a Residential Forum member. Her career in social care began over thirty years ago as a practitioner providing social care, but now she asks how well NHS initiatives are meeting the aim of supporting care homes. Have you been asked? There are significant amounts of…
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Going to market
Going to market
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Just when is residential care not residential care?
Nick Johnson, former Chief Executive of the Social Care Association, social care practitioner, manager and member of the Residential Forum considers some of the challenges to the purpose and image of residential care home living. Many years ago, when trying to define whether a couple were cohabiting for benefit entitlement, the criteria were, “common…
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