Care Home News

Although provided as background for the bestcarehome.co.uk website, this article offers wider food for thought.  The argument is presented that the care home market does not function as well as it should due to the poor information available to buyers of these services.  If better information were available, choosing a care home would be easier, [...]

The department of health recently launched the consultation into the Green paper on the future of care ‘Shaping the future of care together’.
The consultation process lasts from 14th July 2009 to 13th November and it is vital that key stakeholder organisations take part.

Many organisations have now published comments or responses to the government green paper ‘The Future of Care’, providing a useful overview of the issues and challenges these proposals create.  The changes proposed will affect almost everyone in care related services, from residential care homes to meals on wheels.

Chefs at two care homes have been honoured with an award after a ‘cook off’ judged by broadcaster Angela Rippon.  The even, organised by Anchor Trust, aims to highlight the importance of catering within care homes.

This excellent article from Community Care provides detailed advice for care home owners on how to minimise the spread of swine flu.  They make the point that existing best practice around infection control is equaly applicable to swine flu.  Given that we might have 100,000 new infections per day by the end of August, homes [...]

Community Care Magazine has brought together heavyweights of social policy to comment on the adult social care green paper – Shaping the future of Care Together.
Read the full articles on CommunityCare

A great deal of press attention has been given to the spread of infections within hospitals, though residents in care homes are also vulnerable.  This news article is about a care home, Warrior Park Care Home, in Seaton Carew that completed a year long development project aimed at reducing the transmission of infections.

Another care home fataility is examined by an inquest, leading to a suspension of new placements at the care home, Avondale Care Home, Bircotes.  The inquest concluded that failure to follow home protocols in the use of a hoist, led to the accident which contributed to her death.

An inquest has been taking place into the death of a man in a Norfolk care home.  He was recieving palliative care and a verdict of natural causes was recorded. Concerns had been raised in part because of previously raised concerns about record keeping at the home.

The human rights act has particular provisions for people under the care of the public sector, though as the HSJ reports, some priovisions of the act do not cover private sector providers that work under contract to government bodies.
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