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Sarah Whitebloom
Jun 2, 20181 min read
CQC: Nothing to Report
There are some 16,000 care homes in England and the regulator usually issues dozens of reports a week - some shocking, some critical,...
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Sarah Whitebloom
Jun 1, 20183 min read
Wild West Sussex bans 'independent' Board sympathy for abuse-case families
In a series of emails seen by OLM, WSCC's tactics are laid bare - casting a shocking light on the council’s strategy of stone-walling th
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Sarah Whitebloom
May 27, 20183 min read
When we said 'Good', we meant 'Bad' - CQC reverses ratings on care homes
Could it be that the inspectors failed to notice problems a year ago? Or could it be that they were not there?
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Sarah Whitebloom
May 20, 20185 min read
Authorities fail to notice serious care home failings - Worst Homes of Week
Concerns about the awareness and effectiveness of the authorities do not in any way excuse bad care
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Sarah Whitebloom
May 12, 20185 min read
CQC to shut Fawlty Towers care home
From the dry report emerged a figure better placed in fiction - the dictatorial, angry and insensitive owner/manager
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Sarah Whitebloom
May 11, 20182 min read
The CMA can act over scandal of fees for bad care homes - but you must complain
So problems on a postcard to the CMA
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Sarah Whitebloom
May 11, 20183 min read
'Wild' West Sussex refuses to say sorry to abuse-case families for its mistakes
The report even questioned whether the case would have been handled differently had the men not had disabilities
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Sarah Whitebloom
May 4, 20181 min read
Best Care Home of the Week: Northview Lodge, Sunderland
It may sound weird for OLM, but credit where it is due: Britain's biggest homes group, HC-One, has turned Northview Lodge in Sunderland...
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Sarah Whitebloom
May 4, 20184 min read
Care Residents left at risk - despite Regulator knowing care home is unsafe
It never fails to shock that older and vulnerable people live in unsafe and disgusting conditions. It is so much worse when the...
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Sarah Whitebloom
May 2, 20182 min read
Cabinet Trio - Hunt, Javid and Brokenshire - urged to investigate Wild West Sussex care fiasco
What this case highlights is that injuries to adults with learning disabilities do not receive the same response.
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Sarah Whitebloom
Apr 30, 20183 min read
Ministers must investigate 'serious' West Sussex failings over care of two injured disabled
Ms Keeley said: ‘This report is a damning account of serious multi-agency failure in the cases of Gary Lewis and Matthew Bates, for which no
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Sarah Whitebloom
Apr 29, 20183 min read
Understaffed, unclean and unsafe. Tales from the Worst Homes of the Week: Queens Care Centre, Rother
A relative told the inspectors: 'If my family member is sat there day after day in the wrong wheelchair, without her glasses, in someone
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Sarah Whitebloom
Apr 27, 20182 min read
Sussex Healthcare: Can it get any worse? ...Yes.
Both homes have been named by WSCC has having significant safeguarding concerns and yet they are still home to more than 60 adults.
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Sarah Whitebloom
Apr 24, 20184 min read
Care Protect Tactic #1: Attack. Tactic #2: Pretend it never happened
Given the sheer number of Care Protect's online messages, there can be no doubt that the debate is vocal if not open...those who are not
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Sarah Whitebloom
Apr 22, 20182 min read
Watch the Money-Go-Round
There is nothing wrong with raising the subject that Care Protect is a commercial organisation run by people who have already made a very gr
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Sarah Whitebloom
Apr 21, 20184 min read
Exceptional Care. Are they kidding? CQC slams 'highest quality' (Inadequate) Merstone Hall
Merstone Hall's use of pictures does raise a smile - for sheer chutzpah.
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Sarah Whitebloom
Apr 14, 20183 min read
The Best of Care, The Worst of Care - OLM best and worst homes of the week
Best home of the week Red Oaks, Worst homes of the week Orchard Lodge, Horsham and Duchess Gardens, Bingley
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Sarah Whitebloom
Apr 6, 20182 min read
Holy Smoke. Saints do not necessarily preserve us when it comes to care homes
There are 108 homes with names beginning Abbe and Abbot and some 39 per cent of these 'require improvement' or are even 'inadequ
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Sarah Whitebloom
Mar 31, 20182 min read
Mistreatment found by CQC during urgent whistle-blower investigation
Even while the CQC was at Westacre there were allegations of abusive behaviour
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