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The care regulator has admitted to shocked MPs that many service-users, relatives and care staff who have reported safeguarding concerns about a care home or hospital may still be waiting for a response five months later. The Care Quality Commission’s outgoing […]
The care regulator’s annual assessment of “the state of health and care” in England includes almost no discussion of the quality and safety of adult social care services, analysis of the report has revealed. Large sections of the Care Quality Commission’s […]
A review ordered by the last government has found “significant failings” within England’s care and health regulator. The final report into the effectiveness of the Care Quality Commission (CQC) was published this week, and it found an “urgent need” for a […]
The care watchdog has raised a series of concerns about access to care and support, the over-use of restraint and seclusion, and the failure to provide legal protection to disabled people in vulnerable situations, in an annual report. In its annual assessment […]
The care watchdog has declined to raise concerns about the state of adult social care services in England, despite releasing a new batch of inspection reports that show nearly half of them failed to meet acceptable standards. In just a week, […]
MPs have been criticised for failing to question the social care minister about the “national scandal” of tens of thousands of disabled people across England who have been left in debt because they cannot pay their care charges. Helen Whately was […]
New figures have revealed the steadily-worsening state of adult social care, and how disabled people are increasingly reporting concerns about the quality and safety of services, seven weeks after the government last had a minister for social care in post. As […]
Not a single one of the 17 recommendations made two years ago by a government-commissioned review into the use of restraint, seclusion and segregation of disabled people has been carried out, the care regulator has concluded. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) said […]
The care watchdog has yet to find a significant link between a controversial programme to discharge hospital patients still infected with COVID-19 into care homes and a series of fatal outbreaks of the virus, despite alarming new figures. It came after […]
A controversial outsourcing company is refusing to act after one of its ambulance crews was mistakenly told that a disabled campaigner had agreed to have a “do not attempt resuscitation” (DNAR) order placed on her records. Anna Morell was about to […]