CEO Review of the week to 23rd December 2022
This update is coming a day earlier than usual because tomorrow is Christmas Eve. In my last update I indicated that we had decided to withdraw from the formal NCHC […]
CEO Review of the week to 10th December 2022
Since I last updated you, the decision has been taken to withdraw from NCHC negotiations for 2023-24 until such times as the current pressures have been addressed by COSLA and […]
CEO Review of the week to 26th November 2022
Since I last updated you, we have held another successful Care Home Conference and Awards. My thanks go out to all those who worked so hard to make the day […]
CEO Review of the week to 12th November 2022
After weeks of pressure on Scottish Government officials and ministers we finally seem to be getting some mileage in impressing upon the needs of urgent action! A week ago, Karen […]
CEO Review of the week to 1st October 2022
It has been an astonishing couple of weeks not least in the week since the mini-Budget was announced with all the consequential impacts on currency, increased fuel and petrol costs, […]
CEO Review of the week to 17th September 2022
It seems astonishing that it is only two weeks since I last wrote this update and yet so much has changed and happened in our communities and nation. Th death […]
CEO Review of the week to 3rd September 2022
Virtually every two or three days I am getting an email from a member who has been quoted astronomical cost increases to renew their gas and electricity supplies. We have […]
CEO Review of the week to 20th August 2022
Not surprisingly the issues of energy and cost of living have dominated the concerns of members since I last wrote my fortnightly update. Despite efforts it has been hard to […]
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 […]