CEO Review of the week to 6th August 2022
In all the years I have been doing this job at Scottish Care I have never faced so many very real concerns from members about whether they are going to […]
CEO Review of the week to 23rd July 2022
Sometimes when you go away for a couple of weeks you come back and everything seems changed and different. When I started back after a couple of weeks leave on […]
CEO Review of the week to 25th June 2022
In my blog this week I am reflecting on some of the events which have happened in the last couple of weeks. On Monday 13th – and of course close […]
CEO Review of the week to 11th June 2022
Yesterday I spent the day in Dundee – and a long one at that courtesy of Scotrail and its infrequent services – taking part on a Stakeholder Panel to select […]
CEO Review of the week to 14th May 2022
It is another morning after the night before! Just a few weeks after the successful care home conference yesterday saw a day which brough so many of our care at […]
CEO Review of the week to 30th April 2022
For those who have been working in the care home sector over the last two and a-bit years the High Court Ruling in England in the past week has been […]
CEO Review of the week to 16th April 2022
We live in almost a twilight time – where it would appear despite high numbers (though thankfully declining) that the focus has well and truly moved off Covid and is […]
CEO Review of the week to 2nd April 2022
Yesterday we held the first Scottish Care in person event since November 2019.Those of you who attended the Care Home conference will know that it was a day of strong […]
CEO Review of the week to 19th March 2022
Personally, it has been a strange old week – as I have been battling with Covid first hand – it has also been somewhat busy with an EGM on Monday […]
CEO Review of the week to 5th March 2022
It has been a busy week on the publication side of Scottish Government with amongst other things an analysis if the submissions in the Anne’s Law and Health and Care […]
CEO Review of the week to 19th February 2022
The last week has been a stormy and turbulent one – with weather impacting so much of social care delivery across the country. I know from speaking to colleagues just […]
CEO Review of the week to 5th February 2022
It has been a fractious and strange week. Many of us have watched in dismay as the events in Westminster have filled our screens and radios – a world away […]
CEO Review of the week to 22nd January 2022
Last week in my own weekly blog I reflected on what it might mean to start to ‘live with the virus’ and the extent to which we were entering an […]
Update on self-isolation for health and social care staff – 17 January 2022
The Scottish Government has updated the self-isolation exemption guidance for health and social care staff – 17 January 2022.
CEO Review of the week to 8th January 2022
Happy New Year to you all. Mind you as I have said to quite a few people this week happiness is the last emotion many of us are feeling at […]
CEO Review of the week to 18th December
There are some weeks which defy expectation and planning and the last couple have felt just like that. I did not write the last update – thanks to Karen – […]
CEO Review of the week to 4 December
CEO Review of the week to 4 December
CEO Review of the week to 20th November
The couple of weeks just past has illustrated a subtle but significant change in the response to the Covid pandemic. We are now – though it did not come into […]
CEO Review of the week to 6th November
As we start November we are faced with some major challenges for the sector and this past week has illustrated some of those tensions. On the one hand we have […]