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ACM Press Releases Bureaucracy grows as care homes close ( 8 March 2009) There are two worlds of social care: on top is Quangoworld - the bloated, bullying, bureaucracy - and below is the real world where the work gets done. Barely a day passes without some new edict or initiative from the policy elite demanding the time and attention of care managers to be diverted from the job of running good basic services for the people who depend on them. Good care homes are closing, crushed and sucked dry by the weight of expensive and parasitic organisations. Continue Here ......................................................................................................................................... Will she stay or will she go? Cynthia Bower’s position as the £200k p.a. head of the Care Quality Commission is compromised by the independent investigation into Mid Staffordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. While hundreds of patients were needlessly dying, neglected and abused in filthy conditions, Bower was “providing strategic oversight and leadership”, “creating strong commissioning to ensure clinical excellence”, and “leading service improvements for patients”. (Source: NHS West Midlands, 3rd July 2006) Continue Here ......................................................................................................................................... Click here for past press releases ......................................................................................................................................... Care and industry News........ Adult care faces cuts as councils protect children's services Most councils are planning savage cuts to adult social care but intend to protect children's services from financial pain, public finance chiefs have found. Age Concern and Help the Aged bring together Labour and Tory rivals to discuss care funding Age Concern and Help the Aged has scored a coup by persuading health secretary Andy Burnham and Tory shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley to share a platform for a care summit. Adass tells DH: Make personal care part-funded not free The government should part-fund personal care at home for people with high needs rather than make it free to ensure the policy is affordable for councils, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services has said. New NHS dementia awareness campaign launched One in three (32 per cent) people are uncomfortable around people with dementia according to new research. Skills for Care welcome new strategy to boost training for workers supporting people with autism Skills for Care have welcomed £500,000 of funding to help frontline social care and health professionals become more aware of the needs of people with autism. EUROPE PLANS 20 WEEKS MATERNITY LEAVE The European Parliament's women's rights and gender equality committee has voted through plans to force firms to pay pregnant women 100% of their salary for at least 20 weeks. The introduction would leave British businesses facing the prospect of a crippling £2 billion burden to implement the measures.  |
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