CQC Praises and Damms
“Ratings for providers have .. improved, however one in six providers are only “poor” or “adequate”. Says CQC. A major new report from the Care Quality Commission provides a detailed breakdown of adult social care services in England, including figures on usage of services broken down by quality ratings.
“The proportion of care homes, home care agencies, nursing agencies and shared lives schemes rated “excellent” or “good” rose from 69% in May 2008 to 77% in April 2009. However there are some 400 regulated adult social care services rated as “poor” and around 3,500 are only rated “adequate”. CQC requires poor homes to produce an improvement plan and then subjects them to regular intensive inspection. Looking specifically at care homes and agencies, the minimum standards with lowest levels of compliance concern some of the basics of care. Issues highlighted include planning for individuals’ care, how medication is managed, staff supervision and promotion and protection of people’s health, safety and welfare. In care homes for older people, a fifth fail to meet the standard on social contact and activities. Performance on this standard has improved the least of any since 2003.”
The figures from cqc make interesting reading, though you have to dig deeper to get the interesting data. The above figures include home care services so are not just care homes.
Read the full report from cqc
| Number of care services | Number scoring 0 stars | % of all care services in region | Number of registered care home places | Region | |
|
2864 |
15 |
0.52 |
249 |
London | |
|
1272 |
11 |
0.86 |
376 |
North East | |
|
3111 |
37 |
1.19 |
950 |
North West | |
|
2147 |
43 |
2.00 |
1258 |
East Midlands | |
|
2578 |
52 |
2.02 |
1270 |
West Midlands | |
|
2210 |
47 |
2.13 |
1381 |
Yorkshire and Humberside | |
|
2605 |
46 |
1.77 |
1506 |
Eastern | |
|
3316 |
60 |
1.80 |
1580 |
South West | |
|
4666 |
79 |
1.69 |
1809 |
South East | |
|
24770 |
390 |
10379 |
More coverage on the cqc report from the bbc.
