Surmount all obstacles
Michael Voges explains how retirement communities are reducing strain on the sector The health and social care systems are in crisis, unsustainable in their current form and desperately in need of new ideas, funding and models of delivery. This seems to be the consensus arising…...
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Supporting independence
Care England chief executive Professor Martin Green discusses improved wellbeing The major talking point of the moment is the green paper and what it will deliver in terms of a long-term funding solution for social care. Let’s get cynical The cynic in me says we have…...
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Rising from the ashes
Care Workers Charity CEO Alex Ramamurthy discusses challenges facing employees It may surprise you to know that pre-2009 there was no national charity aimed at supporting care workers. With a workforce of over 1.5 million, a significant proportion of whom find themselves on the breadline…...
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CQC fees for homecare providers
Colin Angel slams the CQC’s new fee scheme The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has described a ‘substantial churn’ in the homecare sector, with around 500 agencies registering and 400 deregistering each quarter. The CQC’s new fee scheme for homecare providers has been met with consternation…...
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Tackling the data issue
John Wearing of Anthony Collins Solicitors discusses some of the challenges facing health and social care providers, including GDPR, running efficient homes and the social care green paper CM What is the biggest issue for your clients working in the social care sector? AC There…...
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Why the delay?
Care England head Professor Martin Green demands discipline in delivering This winter has been characterised by two recurring events. It used to be that winter was synonymous with snow and ice, but now it is synonymous with an NHS crisis and headlines about people on trolleys…....
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Are we all in it together?
Care England head Professor Martin Green questions the CMA Since politicians used the phrase ‘we are all in it together’ it has been taken up by a range of other decision makers to justify difficult decisions and to imply that however difficult they are, they affect…...
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The right recruit
Colin Angel reveals UKHCA’s latest homecare research on where to advertise your jobs Homecare providers report the difficulty of recruiting careworkers and managers as one of their biggest challenges. Many of the materials produced look at many of the complex factors affecting recruitment and retention, but…
On the edge?
Colin Angel asks whether a Carillion-style collapse could happen in homecare Following the sudden collapse of Carillion, a number of people have asked whether the same thing could happen in other UK public services outsourced to the private market. In the case of homecare services,…
New beginnings
The New Year has started with a new ministerial team and the strengthened role for social care within the Department and the title of the Secretary of State. The cynic in me is reminded that we have been down this route before. There have been…
