Adult Social Care

Explore how RISCA shifts focus to outcomes over standards, with key concerns around room sizes, en-suites, and impact on care home viability in Wales.

The Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland has a semi-independent role of scrutiny over mental health services in Scotland. It is accountable to Government and carries out its statutory duties by…

What was that you said? My hearing is not great. Both my mother and sister have hearing aids, and I am just at the point where some noises and sounds…

The Scottish Minister for Mental Health has launched a new ten-year strategy to improve mental health services. This is a welcome development, as questions have been raised in the Scottish…

On 6th March CQC launched the ‘Worked up? Speak up’ campaign to get more over-60s to speak up about their experience of Care. Why is it important? Orchestral Manoeuvres So…

The Care Inspectorate registers and regulates care services in Scotland, as well as having a scrutiny function over the care and social service sector generally. It has recently published its…

Can you be a CQC Registered Manager with a spent conviction? I went to a party at Christmas time, and a couple walked in after my husband and I. ‘I…

There is a crisis in hospitals throughout which is recognised, but the knock-on effects of this are increasingly harmful to our health services. The NHS Scotland information services division publishes…