Mar 28 2013
Congratulations to Barchester Healthcare – one of our longest standing clients – who were recently ranked, in a poll undertaken by The Sunday Times, as one of the UK’s best employers Read Full story
Feb 15 2013
A large UK-based care home group has been fined £57,000 after an elderly resident in their care died when she fractured her neck in a fall during a manual handling transfer. The company pleaded guilty late last year in a Scottish court of breaching section 3 of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act, 1974 which led to the fatal injury of an 88 year old female resident. Read Full story
Feb 15 2013
Mrs Gloria Foster 81 was left without medication food or water for nine days after the domiciliary care agency who were supposed to be caring for her was closed in a police raid. The agency which was based in Cheam, south London was raided on suspicion of employing illegal immigrants and was raided by both the Metropolitan Police and UK Border Agency officers in January… Read Full story
Feb 15 2013
A recent BBC documentary revealed that 42% of reported ‘Serious Untoward Incidents’ at hospitals throughout England involve bed sores. Read Full story
Jan 18 2013
A Huddersfield care home has been fined £165,000 and £18,000 costs after a 93 year old resident died when she became trapped between her mattress and bed rails resulting in her asphyxiation. This brings the total number of RIDDOR reported bed rail related deaths to 25 since 2001 most of which could have been avoided. Read Full story
Jan 02 2013
The New Year’s Honours list was published at the end of last month and as usual there was a high representation from the care industry and special needs education sectors. In total 1,223 people received an honour from The Queen about 140 of these were from the health care, social care and special needs children’s services. These included nurses, midwives,… Read Full story
Nov 28 2012
In order to address what he describes as a ‘crisis in care’, Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, is to propose a new ratings system for hospitals and care homes similar to the Ofsted system that rates schools. Read Full story
Oct 10 2012
The Health and Safety Executive have just published an information sheet titled ‘How the Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations (LOLER) apply to Health and Social Care’. Read Full story
Sep 04 2012
Annie Bradley a 78 year old lady who was a resident of Harley House Nursing Home in Leicester fell from a hoist in July 2008 and died the following day. Mrs Bradley who had Huntingdon’s disease and was immobile was being transported in a hoist and sling from her bed to a specialist chair when the accident happened. Two sisters who co-owned the care home were… Read Full story
Aug 21 2012
The Scottish Ambulance Service Board (SASB) has recently been fined £55,000 following an accident that resulted in a 78 year old lady’s death when she was thrown from an ambulance. Read Full story