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Sarah Whitebloom
- Jul 27
- 2 min
CQC not fit for purpose, says Wes. No sh*t Sherlock, says everyone else.
Health Secretary Wes Streeting MP yesterday announced the Care Quality Commission, the 'care regulator', is 'not fit for purpose - to...
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Sarah Whitebloom
- May 6
- 2 min
Shame on us, if living is so unbearable for older people that they would rather die
Is this what campaigners for 'assisted dying' envisage? People preferring to die because the life that has been inflicted on them is so awfu
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Sarah Whitebloom
- Mar 18
- 2 min
CQC forced 800+ private care homes to close: Oxford research
The overwhelming majority of care homes which have been forced to close by the Care Quality Commission have been for-profit homes,...
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Sarah Whitebloom
- Mar 21, 2023
- 2 min
Like schools, 'Ofsted' inspections are failing care residents and families with unreliable ratings
Care home reports are based on the Ofsted inspection system and are failing care home residents and families.
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Sarah Whitebloom
- Mar 16, 2023
- 2 min
Four in ten nursing homes failed inspections in last month. Can 'care' ever really be trusted?
Sorry, it has been a long time, more than 18 months, since OLM last posted a blog. And, sad to say, not much has changed. Care homes,...
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Sarah Whitebloom
- Jan 16, 2021
- 3 min
50% of care homes had no Covid deaths, says CQC, as inspectors slam poor infection control.
With Covid cases increasing again in care homes, campaigners are demanding the government organise weekly testing of care staff to...
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Sarah Whitebloom
- Jan 10, 2021
- 4 min
Residents still at risk of poor Covid practice in some care homes - official reports show.
The country may be shocked, but the Care Quality Commission cannot be surprised at the recent increase of COVID-19 in some of the care...
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Sarah Whitebloom
- Dec 13, 2020
- 3 min
CQC Covid data: Worse than useless
Partial, confusing, incomplete. The long-promised data published recently by the Care Quality Commission are worse than useless in...
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Sarah Whitebloom
- Nov 15, 2020
- 5 min
Lies, damn lies and statistics? CQC poised to release data about Covid in care homes.
The CQC's carefully-selected information implies the entire care home industry is unsafe
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Sarah Whitebloom
- Nov 8, 2020
- 2 min
‘It’s been horrific’: say staff of Covid-hit care home, which regulator knew was ‘unsafe’
The service had a high number of infections and deaths due to Covid 19
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Sarah Whitebloom
- Oct 14, 2020
- 1 min
Half of care homes fail inspections
one in five care homes for older people is currently not meeting the required standards
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Sarah Whitebloom
- Oct 10, 2020
- 2 min
CQC poised to reveal secret data on Covid-hit care homes
England’s care regulator, the CQC, is poised to reveal how many Covid outbreaks have been in homes which it knew were unsafe
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Sarah Whitebloom
- Sep 28, 2020
- 3 min
Not in the public interest: CQC refuses to say if 'unsafe' homes were hit by Covid but will...soon
the CQC maintained the 'public interest' would not be served by the publication of this information
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Sarah Whitebloom
- Sep 28, 2020
- 3 min
CQC refuses to say if known unsafe care homes have been at the centre of Covid-19 outbreaks.
Even though CQC inspectors have said these homes are substandard, and sometimes have been for years, they are home to many thousands of olde
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Sarah Whitebloom
- May 12, 2020
- 2 min
Care home Coronavirus - hardly a surprise
When I heard a few days ago that the high-end care home where my father had lived, had 16, yes 16, cases of Covid-19, I was not surprised
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Sarah Whitebloom
- Jan 8, 2019
- 6 min
Worst Care of 2018 - the Industry Awards no one wants to win.
Worst Care of 2018 - awards for worst care in a corporate home, worst care in an independent home, worst care provider.
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Sarah Whitebloom
- Dec 20, 2018
- 1 min
VOTE NOW FOR THE WORST CARE OF THE YEAR
Worst care of the year - Yorkshire, Lancashire, Bristol, Devon, Lincolnshire, Birmingham, Essex, Manchester
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Sarah Whitebloom
- Dec 11, 2018
- 5 min
No baths, a stench of urine and the care coordinator cooking meals: OLM's Worst Care Homes of th
Families voiced concerns but the website boasts: 'In our care homes we specialise in providing quality care.' [sic]
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Sarah Whitebloom
- Nov 29, 2018
- 3 min
How much kindness can Ferndale Court's residents take from HC-One (the kind care company)?
One family had taken the extraordinary step of employing a private carer to come into the home
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