Government plans to digitise the adult social care sector and bolster the workforce.
The government on the 4th April 2023 published the Better Care Fund framework that is claimed will ensure at least £16.8 billion is spent...
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- Mar 16
- 3 min
Age UK report finds older people with chronic conditions are struggling because of a lack of help
According to a report by Age UK hundreds of thousands of older people in England are having to endure chronic pain, anxiety and unmet...
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- Jan 11
- 3 min
Bed blocking is increasing the Government focus on social care
The queues of ambulances outside hospital A&E departments are a sharp and recurring reminder to the government that hospitals in England...
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- Nov 22, 2022
- 3 min
Is further delay in capping the cost of care inhumane?
In his ‘Autumn Statement’ Jerry Hunt the chancellor said” To show compassion to the needy and the most vulnerable is the measure of every...
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- Nov 15, 2022
- 4 min
Demand for social care continues to outstrip availability
The state of social care in England has “never been so bad”, the country’s leading social services chief has said, with half a million...
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- Oct 18, 2022
- 3 min
Improving social cares staff understanding of outcomes
Providers, social care worker commissioners, regulators and those who receive a care service are all concerned about outcomes. They all...
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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 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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- May 12, 2022
- 3 min
Migration Advisory Committee Report puts pressure on Government to improve social care workers pay a
The recent report by the Migration Advisory Committee spells out to the Government in no uncertain terms that the recruitment of social...
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- May 5, 2022
- 3 min
How can we prevent the exodus of social care staff to better paid jobs?
Social care staff are leaving the sector in droves for better-paid jobs in supermarkets, retail and hospitality is fuelling the worst NHS...
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- Apr 15, 2022
- 3 min
Health and social Care levy not a panacea but a step forward
Few would argue with the aim of Prime Minister, Boris Johnson who said: “Our reforms will end the cruel lottery of spiralling and...
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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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- Sep 1, 2021
- 3 min
Care homes urging the government to fast track visas of foreign workers
It is crunch time for social care providers in trying to encourage their staff to have the vaccine by September 16th so they are fully...
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- Jul 20, 2021
- 3 min
Will the government pay for overlooking the social care sector?
This week the drumbeats of Westminster are once again signalling that the time has at last come for the government to publish its future...
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- Jul 16, 2021
- 3 min
The problems of social care are not confined to the UK
As we continue to wrestle with the problems of social care in England, and the continued delay of government reform, it is a sobering...
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- Jul 8, 2021
- 3 min
Is free social care realistic or just a pipe dream
It has long been mooted by the labour party that it would introduce free social care if the party won power. But according to John Pring...
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- Jun 23, 2021
- 3 min
Pressure mounting on Boris Johnson to resolve social care crises
If the rumour mills in Whitehall are to be believed there are at last moves afoot to resolve the social care crises. Crunch talks are due...
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- Jun 11, 2021
- 4 min
Will we ever get to the truth about the COVID catastrophe in care homes?
Dominic Cummings criticism of Mat Hancock handling of the COVID crises in care homes last week has once again opened up the running sore...
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- Nov 11, 2020
- 3 min
Is there a place for 24/7 live-in care in new social care world?
According to the consumer champion ‘Which’, live-in care is becoming an increasingly popular alternative to moving into a care home –...
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- Nov 2, 2020
- 3 min
Is there not another way to defeat the virus?
As we all gear up to another Monday morning, at the back of all our minds will be the thought of facing another lockdown. Poor Boris,...
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