CEO Review – 22nd March 2025.
NCHC Care home members will perhaps have attended the Extraordinary General meeting which was held yesterday (Friday) to consider the COSLA/Scotland Excel offer letter of the 6th March. That letter […]
CEO Review of the week to 8th March 2025.
CEO Review of the week to 8th March 2025. Financial Sustainability Since my last update a couple of meetings have been held with officials from Scottish Government, HSCP Chief Officer […]
CEO Review of the week to 22nd February 2025.
Financial Sustainability Since I last wrote this update there has been in some sense a lot happening and in another not a lot happening both on care home and care […]
CEO Review of the week to 8th February 2025.
Financial Sustainability As regular readers of this update will know I mentioned the last time the possibility of joining with colleagues from CSOLA to make a joint approach to Scottish […]
CEO Review of the week to 25th January 2025.
Storm Eowyn I am writing this to you hours after the worst parts of the Storm have come to an end. I want to start by applauding all of you […]
CEO Review of the week to 11th January 2025.
Another year First of all, a Happy New Year to those who read this update. Apologies also for its non-appearance last week due to a combination of me having a […]
CEO Review of the week to 14th December 2024
The Scottish Budget and National Insurance. In the last fortnightly update, I indicated what we had identified as our main asks from the Scottish Budget which included clarification on any […]
CEO Review of the week to 30th November 2024
The Scottish Budget. In the last fortnightly update, I linked to the media release which Scottish Care had just produced which gave the overarching results of our poll around the […]
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 […]