Becky Garnett-Buchma, Managing Director of Fulcrum Care, has responded to the recent speech by Wes Streeting MP, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, delivered at the Labour Party Conference 2024. Becky, whose experience includes supporting hundreds of care homes across the country, recognises the urgency in addressing the deep-rooted challenges within the NHS and…
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The Care Quality Commission (CQC) plays a crucial role in regulating health and social care services across England, ensuring that care homes deliver high standards of care. In recent years, the CQC has intensified its enforcement actions against care homes that fail to meet these standards. This blog explores the implications of these enforcement actions…
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The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the UK’s foremost regulatory body ensuring that care homes maintain high standards of care. Through rigorous inspections and subsequent ratings, the CQC holds care homes accountable, providing transparency and trust for residents, families, and the public. However, the time it takes for the CQC to reassess care homes, particularly…
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The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of health and social care in England, tasked with ensuring that care homes, hospitals, and other care providers meet essential standards of quality and safety. However, recent developments have cast a shadow over the CQC’s effectiveness, raising serious concerns about its ability to fulfil its mandate.…
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Legal advice is crucial in running a successful care home, and you can probably think of numerous occasions when you’ve had to run a query by your lawyer to better understand the legal implications of your decisions in the business of your care home. Lawyers are best placed to understand pending legislation and legal processes,…
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The pandemic saw a dramatic rise in the number of inquiries we were receiving from care homes looking for advice and support. Although the COVID-19 situation is much more stable, the demand for our services has not dwindled, as care homes are still looking for a team of dedicated experts in care to advise them.…
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During the pandemic, more care home managers than ever were reaching out to us, trying to make sense of the ever-changing circumstances that we all found ourselves in. If the past two (and a bit) years have shown us anything, it’s that our sector needs to be ready with whatever is thrown our way, to…
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Improving safeguarding in the care homes we work with is central to our ethos, and we’re thrilled to be backing a new initiative that protects vulnerable people in care homes and makes reporting workplace concerns easier. An independent contact point for staff to raise concerns is central to ensuring that care homes across England are…
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In case you missed it, we turned five earlier this year! Ever since, we’ve been on a mission to help care homes achieve their goals, be that reaching a higher CQC rating, provide crisis interim management or just be a sounding board for managers and owners looking to improve the standard of care they provide. It’s such a…
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