Scottish Care Surgery – 9 December 2025
2025-12-09 11:00 - 11:30 (Europe/London)
Our Members Surgeries are scheduled for every second Tuesday at 11:00am. There will be one scheduled on:
Tuesday 9 December 2025, 11:00 am.
These sessions will be hosted by our CEO, Dr Donald Macaskill and Deputy CEO, Karen Hedge.
These sessions are for all Scottish Care members – both care home and homecare sector.

Join us for your opportunity to ask any questions or raise any concerns you may have.

Details to join this session will be available on the Members Area.

Members Webinar – Barriers to the Provision of Residential Accommodation Revisited
2025-12-11 10:30 - 11:30
Thursday 11 December 2025 – 10:30am to 11:30am

In November 2024, Scottish Care issued the position statement: Barriers to the Provision of Residential Accommodation. This outlined a variety of issues preventing timely admission to, and payment for, residential and/or nursing care support services.
Since the publication of this and the latest Charging for Residential Accommodation Guidance (2025), Scottish Care has been further engaged in this workstream to improve the efficacy and timeliness of care home resident’s admission and underlying funding.
Our webinar will update members on the progression of such advocacy and outline the latest developments regarding best practice and statutory entitlements. This includes the following:

Providers’ eligibility to additional payments/top-ups.
Providers’ financial assessment of self-funding/additional payment funded residents.
Providers’ recourse for budget and fee setting arrangements.

Please note that this webinar will not directly cover the cost-model adjoined to the NCHC, which will be discussed with members as negotiations progress.
For those unable to attend, the webinar will be recorded, and for any queries with its content, please do not hesitate to get in contact through fraser.smith@scottishcare.org.
Registration details are available on our Members Area.

Scottish Care Surgery – 6 January 2026
2026-01-06 11:00 - 11:30
Our Members Surgeries are scheduled for every second Tuesday at 11:00am. There will be one scheduled on:
Tuesday 6 January 2026, 11:00 am.
These sessions will be hosted by our CEO, Dr Donald Macaskill and Deputy CEO, Karen Hedge.
These sessions are for all Scottish Care members – both care home and homecare sector.

Join us for your opportunity to ask any questions or raise any concerns you may have.

Details to join this session will be available on the Members Area.

Scottish Care Surgery - 5 February 2026
2026-02-05 12:00 - 12:45
Our Members Surgeries are scheduled for every first Thursday of the month at 12:00 pm noon. There will be one scheduled on:
Thursday 5 February 2026, 12:00 pm.
These sessions will be hosted by our CEO, Dr Donald Macaskill and Deputy CEO, Karen Hedge.
These sessions are for all Scottish Care members – both care home and homecare sector.

Join us for your opportunity to ask any questions or raise any concerns you may have.

Details to join this session will be available on the Members Area.

Webinar: How do we define, evidence and improve social care -19 Feb
2026-02-19 14:00 - 15:00
How do we define, evidence and improve social care in Scotland? Learning from qualitative research
Thursday 19 February 2026
2:00 – 3:00 pm
Please register in the Members Area
Scottish Care welcomes Dr Jenna Breckenridge to share the findings from qualitative research she conducted in collaboration with Scottish Government. Jenna’s research involved two parts: creative workshops with over 60 social care stakeholders; and a focussed case study where she interviewed 20 stakeholders involved in developing the Healthcare Framework for Adults Living in Care Homes. She has combined the research data from both parts of the project to create the “3Rs” model, which identifies the three characteristics of good social care as: respectful, responsive and relational. In this webinar, Jenna will talk about how the “3Rs” can support discussions around designing, evidencing and improving social care and will share insights from her research about the importance of valuing different types of knowledge in social care.
About the speaker: Dr Jenna Breckenridge is a Senior Lecturer in Health Sciences at the University of Dundee. She is a qualitative researcher with a special interest in how knowledge is shared and used within and across organisations. Her research was completed as part of an ESRC funded research fellowship with the Social Care Analytical Unit at Scottish Government between February 2022 and November 2023.

Branch Chair Visits - Dumfries & Galloway
2026-03-09 12:00 - 14:00
There will be a Branch Chair visit for Dumfries & Galloway (care homes and care at home) on:
Monday 9 March 2026
12:00 pm – 2:00pm
Venue – TBD
