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Atrium Notebook CQC: 'People often not at the centre of their own care'

Extracts taken from CQC - Care Quality Commission - media release.

'People often not at the centre of their own care, says CQC as it publishes reports from its review of services for people with learning disabilities

'The Care Quality Commission (CQC) today publishes a further 20 reports from a targeted...

10/02/2012 - 12:19pm
Ed Wilcox
Atrium Notebook Evidence of neglect at Partridge Care Centre in Harlow uncovered

Extracts from BBC News article, 09.01.12

Evidence of neglect and abuse at a private nursing home in Essex has been uncovered by a BBC investigation.

In August 2011 Partridge Care Centre, in Harlow, was at the centre of a police inquiry after three people were taken to hospital with "diabetes related problems".

Two women in their 80s died, although Essex Police dropped the investigation...

10/02/2012 - 11:33am
Ed Wilcox
Atrium Notebook CQC publishes ten reports of services for people with learning disabilities

Review of learning disability services

One of the actions we said we would take in the wake of the Panorama programme on Winterbourne View was a programme of unannounced inspections of services for people with learning disabilities.

This is a targeted programme of inspections of hospitals and care homes that care for people with learning disabilities. It is looking...

17/01/2012 - 2:58pm
Ed Wilcox
Atrium Notebook Britain’s private care faces crisis

 

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18/11/2011 - 3:11am
Ellie Keen
Atrium Notebook Care home funding cuts leave GPs 'time bomb'

Pulse Today

Key findings of Pulse special investigation:

  • Funding for medical and nursing services for care-home residents fell by 11% in the last year, from an average of £586m in 2009/10 to a forecast spend of £520m in 2010/11.
  • The number of ‘critical' incidents reported...
18/11/2011 - 3:10am
Ellie Keen
Atrium Notebook Dementia care 'human rights' call

Urgent action should be taken to protect the human rights of people with dementia in care homes

About 65,000 people in Scotland have dementia and about 40% are in care homes or hospitals.

The Care Commission and Mental Welfare Commission visited a sample of homes between August and March and detailed their findings in a report, Remember I'm Still Me.

It said before the...

18/11/2011 - 3:09am
Ellie Keen
Atrium Notebook Older people

News stories relating to older people

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28/08/2011 - 3:54pm
Ellie Keen
Atrium Notebook Care homes

News items on care homes.

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28/08/2011 - 3:31pm
Ellie Keen