Today’s press has seen yet more care homes hit the headlines again with their poor levels of care, and failing to implement improvements requested by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Yesterday’s Observer also reported on the biggest residential care operator in Britain, Southern Cross, seeking a £100m equity injection to secure its future.
From 1 October 2010, the CQC’s
essential standards of quality and safety are required to be met by every health and adult social care service in England. However, it seems more and more care homes are being closed down for failing to make improvements imposed by the CQC, and a
news item in last week’s Guardian discusses the topic that allowing private providers to take over social care and health services is inherently risky.
Gael will be exhibiting at
The Care Forum event on 6-7th June, and it will be interesting to see how the sector is dealing with this attention, what plans and processes they’re putting in place, or indeed have in place, to improve their levels of care, and if they feel the hard line taken by the CQC is justified.
Let us know what you think. Are you a care home having been audited by the CQC recently? What was the outcome? Did you, or do you, have processes and procedures in place for the standards the CQC is looking for you to improve on or maintain?