This week’s NCF Annual Conference saw the launch of a new service for care organisations.
Tough new powers have been handed to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to fine firms that have broken consumer law.
Compliance
Laura Wood has been appointed Director of Care Quality and Compliance by The Fremantle Trust.
London Borough of Barking and Dagenham and Moreland House care home in Hornchurch have agreed to change their charging policies after a resident paid too much for her care.
The National Care Forum (NCF) and Quality Compliance Systems (QCS) have announced a new partnership to help care providers through their compliance requirements.
A BBC investigation has found thousands of medical care records left unsecured in an abandoned Hampshire care home.
Staffing shortages were highlighted by the CQC as it downgraded an Essex care home to ‘requires improvement’ from ‘good’.
Staff and residents at Caring Homes’ Hawkhill House Nursing Home near Aberdeen have celebrated receiving two ‘very good’ ratings from the Care Inspectorate.
Interim Chief Inspector of Adult Social Care, Debbie Westhead, the Care Quality Commission’s (CQC), launches her column on regulatory updates following her appointment in January.
More than half of the capital’s care homes have failed London Fire Brigade safety checks.
