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General Practice – Vaccinations and Immunisations
May 28, 2020
Overview During 2019, NHS England and NHS Improvement undertook a significant review of vaccination and immunisation payment mechanisms. The previous payment system was outdated and far from ideal. The reforms…
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How to achieve Outstanding in the Well-Led category?
April 8, 2020
In my last piece, I suggested ways in which you could score highly in the Safe key question, which as we all know is exceptionally challenging to get right. In…
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What makes for a well-led care home?
April 7, 2020
Demonstrating to a CQC inspector that a service is Well-led is one of the most challenging domain key questions for providers. Ed Watkinson, a former inspector who consults for Quality…
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Statutory Sick Pay and Coronavirus – What does it mean?
March 13, 2020
Following on from the Chancellor’s Budget announcements on 11th March 2020, it has been decided that the government will provide support to small businesses by refunding eligible statutory sick pay…
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Care homes, Coronavirus, and Human Rights
March 13, 2020
The phony war is over. After the weeks of ‘what should we do if this disease gets close to home?’, suddenly there are more and more care homes reporting…
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Changes to National Minimum Wage – DBEIS
March 2, 2020
Changes to National Minimum Wage following the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Consultation The DBEIS recently concluded its consultation into changes and enforcement of the National Minimum Wage…
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Money Matters
February 6, 2020
One of the areas of focus for 2020 inspections with the Care Inspectorate is Personal finances and how service user access these and how staff ensure that service users…
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Six Principles of GDPR
February 3, 2020
In the last GDPR guidance note we discussed the key terms set out in GDPR. In this guidance note we’ll look at the 6 key principles of GDPR that apply…
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