Legally speaking – The new Vetting and Barring Scheme and POVE, the new landscape

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New legislation is only making the task of reporting and investigating incidents in care homes more muddled and muddied.Reporting of Protection of Vulnerable Adult...

Residential care in Europe

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This month Laing & Buisson has proudly launched a new monthly business intelligence publication in an exciting partnership with the European healthcare analyst Healthcare...

Legally Speaking – The Equality Bill and the care sector

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At the time of writing, the Equality Bill is about to enter its final leg of House of Lords debates. The looming general election means...

Can the current homecare pattern continue?

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For the 16th year running the volume of homecare funded by English local authorities increased, at its recent rate of 5-6% per annum. But can...

Legally speaking – the Personal Care at Home Bill

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With the government’s latest attempt to tackle the ageing population sitting in the pre-election tabloid headlines, Eversheds’ legal expertise breaks down exactly what’s on...

Legally speaking – what does 2010 hold?

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The experts at Eversheds take a look into their crystal ballEvery year over 100,000 people die in care homes in the UK. This figure accounts...

Election 2010 – part one

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This year sees the most important general election in a generation. With health and social care higher on the agenda than ever before care providers...

Changing attitudes to antipsychotics – Barchester drugs case study

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The Care Service Minister Phil Hope proposed an action plan towards the end of 2009 to reduce the use of anti-psychotic drugs in dementia...

2010: the year CQC makes contact…on its own terms

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Next year is set to be a riotously busy one for the now headless CQC. Louise Crook, solicitor at law firm Rickerbys LLP takes a...

2010 – Care odyssey or care oddity?

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As the sector approaches the beginning of another decade, will the tidal wave of consultations, government initiatives, and heady hopes for personalisation prevail or...
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