
Terence Channer, the family’s solicitor, said that the release of the footage piled additional heartache on Small’s family when they were looking to the police for support.
Terence Channer, the family’s solicitor, said that the release of the footage piled additional heartache on Small’s family when they were looking to the police for support.
As part of the Government’s Adult Social Care Winter Plan published on 18 September 2020, the DHSC has implemented a scheme in collaboration with CQC to provide dedicated care locations or ‘designated settings’ to allow the safe discharge of COVID-19 positive patients into or back into a registered care home setting for the remainder of their required isolation period. The scheme is intended to run over the winter period with the aim of preventing the spread of COVID-19 in care homes, enabling COVID-19 positive people to receive the care that they need and also to free up much needed hospital beds.
Vaccination service providers will need to consider how they will be arranging vaccination services and who will be responsible for carrying on the regulated activity (and for the quality and safety of the service) in order to identify and comply with any registration requirements or notification arrangements that are needed.
Errol Archer, Regulatory Solicitor and health and social care specialist writes a feature article in Care Management Matters magazine.
In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) paused routine inspections and implemented the Emergency Support Framework (ESF) using regular conversations between inspectors and providers as an additional monitoring tool to gather information. Using the learnings acquired from the ESF as a springboard, CQC has now replaced the ESF with its transitional monitoring approach (TMA) in order to adapt and evolve the methods it uses to monitor services. The stated aim is to target its regulatory activity ‘most effectively’.