Growing concern about families being denied access to care homes
It is hard to believe that two and a half years after Boris Johnson announced the first UK lockdown, and seven months after the last...
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- Sep 27, 2022
- 3 min
Bettal support customers with required evidence of compliance to CQC Quality Statements
Further to the announcement of the CQC single assessment framework underpinned by quality statements, here at Bettal Quality Consultancy...
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- Sep 12, 2022
- 3 min
Government launches task force to boost international recruitment of overseas care staff to fill ...
The challenges facing social care providers in trying to recruit new staff is well documented. The situation has become so desperate that...
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- Sep 6, 2022
- 3 min
The importance of good records to achieving compliance to CQC Standards
Here at Bettal Quality Consultancy we have always recognised the importance of records to our Cared4 Quality Management System. In the...
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- Aug 16, 2022
- 3 min
The vulnerability of paid live-in migrant care workers in London to modern slavery
According to a research study carried out by Rights Lab at the University of Nottingham, poor working conditions, insecure employment and...
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- Aug 9, 2022
- 3 min
Australia’s Covid outbreak affecting 6000 residents acts as a warning that we must get on with th...
Covid infections are currently sweeping through 1,013 of Australia’s aged care homes, leading to Providers call for urgent support as...
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- Jul 25, 2022
- 3 min
Care home residents isolated because of Covid, suffer during heatwave
Most of us enjoy the warm summer weather but then the recent heat wave and temperatures of 40 degrees, well that’s something different....
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- Jul 6, 2022
- 3 min
Scottish Government Healthcare framework for adults living in care homes
My Health – My Care – My Home The Scottish Government recently published its healthcare framework for adults living in care homes, - My...
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- Jun 22, 2022
- 3 min
Are care home providers in Wales keeping to their contracts?
Care home providers in Wales have been criticised for charging top up fees to residents for taking them to medical appointments. Sue...
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- Jun 15, 2022
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Care home residents enjoyed a surprise visit from a cute donkey
I thought I had heard it all, that is until this week when I learned that a donkey had made a surprise visit to a care home. It turned...
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- May 30, 2022
- 3 min
Understanding the difference between policies, procedures, protocols, and guidance, PPPGs
It is now over two years since I wrote the blog on ‘understanding the difference between policies, procedures, protocols, and guidance,...
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- May 26, 2022
- 3 min
Demand for homecare set to outstrip care home placements
The impact of Covid continues to have severe consequences for care homes. According to a new report from care introductory agency, Elder,...
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- May 17, 2022
- 3 min
Are you paying too much for your policies and procedures?
A quality management documentation system (policies and procedures) is key to the operation of any social care service. Indeed, the...
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- Apr 21, 2022
- 3 min
Care homes can benefit from greater links with the community
I recently read with some interest of The Belmont care home in Worcester who have partnered with the Warriors Community Foundation to...
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- Apr 5, 2022
- 3 min
A report on the wide ranging impact of the pandemic on Irelands care homes.
A new study has revealed the extent of the wide-ranging effects of Covid-19 and the lockdowns have had on the mental and physical health...
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- Mar 30, 2022
- 3 min
Durham tops league of major cities for best elderly care
The need for high-quality elderly care in the UK is greater than ever before given an increasing aging population. A study from the...
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- Mar 22, 2022
- 2 min
Bettal success in supporting homecare providers to achieve registration
This year we have seen here at Bettal Quality Consultancy a rapid increase in the number of potential homecare providers seeking our...
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- Mar 15, 2022
- 3 min
Is a tax being levied on people who visit care homes?
People visiting their loved ones in care homes went through a tortuous and traumatic experience during the pandemic. At the time many...
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- Nov 30, 2021
- 3 min
Level of resident’s care is declining as non-vaccinated staff are dismissed from care homes
Few could have doubted the impact of non-vaccinated staff leaving care homes. It beggars belief that the Government took the decision to...
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- Nov 16, 2021
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It’s time that residents in care homes got back to their normal lifestyle
It is some time now since the end of lockdowns, and for most of us we have been able to get back to our normal lives. This is not the...
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