CEO Review of the week to 16th November 2024
Care Home Conference and Awards. Yesterday we held our 24th Care Home Conference and our 20th Care Home Awards – a huge thanks to all my colleagues at Scottish Care […]
CEO Review of the week to 2nd November 2024
The Budget Wednesday last saw a historical budget – the first presented to the UK Parliament by a woman and the first by a Labour administration for 14 years. As […]
CEO Review of the week to 19th October 2024
NCHC and Nursing Uplift As I reported in the last update following a virtual dialogue with Scotland Excel it became clear that they are not planning to fully implement the […]
CEO Review of the week to 5th October 2024
NCHC and Nursing Uplift As I reported in the last update Karen, and I met with senior colleagues from Scotland Excel to talk about the next stages for the NCHC. […]
CEO Review of the week to 21st September 2024
NCHC As I indicated in the last update Karen, and I were due to meet with senior colleagues from Scotland Excel to talk about the next stages for the NCHC. […]
CEO Review of the week to 7th September 2024
Scottish Care Strategy I want to thank all those who braved the absolutely atrocious weather and who came to Glasgow to attend our Annual General Meeting on Monday. In my […]
CEO Review of the week to 24th August 2024
Vaccination It must be something about the chill autumnal winds we have been getting this past week combined with yet another named storm of rain, but I have been a […]
CEO Review of the week to 10th August 2024
Race Riots As I have reflected in my public blog this week, little could I have anticipated that this week I would be writing about the impact of rioting on […]
CEO Review of the week to 27th July 2024
Audit Commission Many of you will have seen the publication from the Audit Commission and the media we have been doing in the last few days relating to this. It […]
CEO Review of the Week to 12th July 2024
Greetings, everyone. I am delighted to be writing this week’s CEO update whilst Donald is on annual leave as it coincidentally marks my seventh anniversary with Scottish Care. It has […]
CEO Review of the week to 29th June 2024
Operation Koper… After many attempts I finally had a meeting with the head of the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service who is leading on the investigations into Covid deaths […]
CEO Review of the week to 15th June 2024
A perilous state of affairs… As is normal we held a June meeting of both the Scottish Care National Executive and our National Committee, the latter of which brings together […]
CEO Review of the week to 1 June 2024
General election and social care Well, when I last wrote this update I did not see this one coming – a General Election called for July 4th. Whilst I acknowledge […]
CEO Review of the week to 18th May 2024
Care at Home and Housing Support Conference And Awards I am writing this a few hours after the end of another successful day conference and awards ceremony. Congratulations to all […]
CEO Review of the week to 4th May 2024
Politics Well as I have often mentioned before there is a very real truth in the old adage that a week is a long time in politics. Humza Yousaf First […]
CEO Review of the week to 20th April 2024
CEO Review of the week to 20th April 2024 Operation Koper In the last few days, we have heard that there has been a significant increase in focus from Police […]
CEO Review of the week to 6th April 2024
Immigration. Yesterday we published a briefing paper based on the research we have carried out with members on international workforce. My thanks to Caroline Deane who wrote this paper and […]
CEO Review of the week to 23rd March 2024
Covid Inquiries Karen and I gave evidence yesterday at the Scottish Covid Inquiry. Video of the evidence sessions can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=11&v=vmJKDc2v1q4&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.covid19inquiry.scot%2F&embeds_referring_origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.covid19inquiry.scot%3Fautoplay%3D1&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjY&feature=emb_logo and for Karen at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJux9UiG9GY In our […]
CEO Review of the week to 9th March 2024
Since the last update it has become increasingly clear that we are witnessing in many parts of the country a determined assault by the public sector on non-statutory providers of […]