Care Markets

Hot on the heels of the publication of the new fundamental standards (CCMn July 2014), Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced that from April 2015 care providers who treat vulnerable people without dignity and respect will be put in special measures’.

Official figures have shown that service users are more satisfied in residential care than remaining at home. Despite the push towards domiciliary care by the government and many local authorities, the Health and Social Care Information Service’s (HSCIC) annual Adult Social Care Survey found that 72% of service users were extremely or very satisfied with their residential care.

Bedford borough council and South Essex Partnership University Trust been fined for inappropriately caring for a man with mental health issues in his own home after officers became fixated on the man’s wishes to live independently’. A joint investigation by the Local Government Ombudsman Dr Jane Martin and the Parliamentary and Health Services Ombudsman Julie Mellor found the paranoid schizophrenia sufferer was malnourished and had poor dental health because professionals did not properly assess whether he had the capacity to make decisions for himself.

CCMn meets David Pearson, who took on the leadership of the Association of Directors of Adult Socical Services earlier this year to find out what his plans are during his presidency.

The gap between the average uplift in care home fee rates for older people paid by UK local authorities for 2014/15 and care home...

Doncaster council’s cabinet has approved plans to close its seven residential care homes for older people. The local authority has now commenced a three-month consultation...

The Department of Health (DH) has revealed more detail in its draft guidance following the Care Act gaining Royal Assent (CCMn June 2014). Now the...

Providing adult social care services in England will soon be ‘unsustainable’ if current budgetary pressures continue, and significant measures are not taken to inject...

NHS chief executive Simon Stevens has incurred the wrath of the care sector by saying he would be ‘disappointed’ if residential homes still existed...

A new approach to caring for dying people based on the needs and wishes of the person and those close to them was launched...