CEO Review of the week 29th November to 5th December.
Another week with a real sense of positive dynamic . On the positive side the news that the MHRA has signed off the Pfizer vaccine has given everyone a real […]
CEO Review of the week 22nd to 28th November.
Well, the week that has passed has been dominated by Christmas. I reflected a little bit of this in my blog last Saturday https://scottishcare.org/yearning-for-christmas-past-in-covid-times-a-personal-reflection/ but in the last week we […]
CEO Review of the week 15th to 21st November.
Despite the darkening days there seems to have been a societal change towards a more optimistic anticipation of the future. The news of positive response from the Pfizer, Moderna and […]
CEO Review of the week 8th to 14th November.
It has been a week which has witnessed some very sad statistics, chief amongst which has been the passing of the 50,000 deaths mark across the whole of the United […]
CEO Review of the week 1st to 7th November.
It has been another rather busy week of reports published by the Scottish Government. The first ever Winter Plan was published, alongside the report of the Root Cause Analysis Working […]
CEO Review of the week 25th to 31st October.
It has been an interesting and a busy week. Wednesday saw the publication of the delayed Public Health Scotland report on discharges from hospitals into care homes during the first […]
CEO Review of the week 18th October to 24th October.
I was struck during a meeting this week of the Clinical and Professional Advisory Group of a comment made by one of the clinicians., It was to the effect that […]
CEO Review of the week 11th to 17th October
Last week when I wrote this update, I reflected a great deal on the issues facing care at home and housing support and the Awards and Festival that we had […]
CEO Review of the week 4th October to 10th October.
As I write this, we have come to the end of our first ever virtual three-day conference, the Homecare Festival. It has been a successful event with lots of great […]
CEO Review of the week 27th September to 3rd October
If anyone doubted the ability of this virus to continue to wreak havoc upon hope and community it has been seen in the past week with a growing number of […]
CEO Review of the week 19th to 26th September
It has been a busy week during which I have had the pleasure of meeting many of our members. On Tuesday we held a meeting of branch chairs which saw […]
Review of the week 13th to 19th September
The week started with a piece of research and reporting in the Sunday Mail about the experience of care at home and housing support staff in relation to testing. This […]
Review of the week 6th to 12th September
In the week that has just passed we have had a paper published by the National Registers of Scotland which evidences an appalling increase in the number of ‘excess’ deaths […]
CEO Review of the week 30th August to 5th September
The last few day have been dominated by discussions on the announcement on Wednesday that an independent Review of Adult Social Care will be held over the next four months […]
CEO Review of the week 23rd to 29th August.
The last few days have seen a change in the pressures which the sector has been facing, both homecare and care homes. Since the schools have gone back we have […]
Review of the week 16th to 22nd August.
The last few months have been ones in which normality seemed to be impossible to achieve both in terms of work and focus and in terms of care and delivery. […]
Turas Care Management Contact Details
Contact details for care homes to contact NES to set up the Turas Care Management Tool (Digital Safety Huddle Tool)
Review of the week 9th to 15th August.
It has been another busy week affecting both homecare and care home services across Scotland. As I reported in my update last week we saw last Saturday the publication of […]
Review of the week 2nd to 8th August.
Today (Sat 8th) the Scottish Government has published a letter from the Cabinet Secretary detailing the extension of visiting for care homes including additional numbers for outside visiting (from Monday) […]