Adult Social Care

Recently I attended a safeguarding seminar in London primarily because it promised information about recruiting staff and volunteers and how to use value-based interviewing. Whilst this was really interesting and…

I wrote a couple weeks ago about the huge amount of pressure I have been under recently to offer a service for new packages of care. I have never seen…

The cost of recruitment is expensive. Our staff turnover rate this year has been 10%, which is higher than it’s ever been before. The bottom line is the job is…

Anyone who has responsibility for a 24 hour care provision will have come across the challenges of using temporary staff. Although best practice is to recruit and retain a crack…

The pressure to pick up new referrals of Homecare packages this week has been exceptionally great. The demand for our service at this time of year is completely unprecedented and…

I heard on the radio this morning that the CQC’s new Chief is considering whether secret CCTV filming of care settings would increase early detection of poor practice. This followed…

I always look forward to December. Not just because of Christmas though. I wrote last week about how my home care company post out our annual quality surveys along with…

I’m annoyed. These days it takes a lot for a news story to make me cross, but the revelation today that over 75% of care visits carried out by some…