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) […]
CEO Review of the Week 27th July to 1st August
The announcements made on Thursday by the First Minister detailed the return of the schools in August. They also have a timeline for opening of various indoor activities from bingo, […]
CEO Review of the Week 19th-25th July
Following a tweet by Jason Leitch the National Clinical Director many of us were working to the assumption that the Stage 3 Guidance and start of visiting inside care homes […]
CEO Weekly Update 12th to 18th July 2020
There is almost a sense of return to some degree of normality with the tremendous news that we have gone for at least one whole week with no deaths from […]
CEO Review of the week 5th to 11th July
Well we are well and truly on the road to and through Phase 3 with pubs re-opening, hairdressers sharpening their scissors and a whole manner of businesses and activities beginning […]
Review of the week 28st June to 4th July
Yesterday saw the opening of care homes to garden and outdoor visits. This has been much welcomed and in typical disappointing reality in many parts of the country the weather […]
CEO Review of the Week 21st -27th June
The much-awaited Guidance for Visiting was published by Scottish Government on Thursday. I know that there are many diverse views on whether or not we have got the balance right […]
Review of the week 14th to 20th June
Thursday saw the announcement of Scotland moving to the next stage of our exit from lockdown and dealing with the suppression of the Covid19 virus. This has been a hard […]
Review of the week 7th to 13th June
Well talk of entering the second stage of Lockdown exit seems to be dominating the media, as too the focus on the restoration of tourism, transport and small businesses. The […]
Review of the week 24th May to 30th May
The world has started to re-orientate itself to a new reality of meeting and household contact. Clearly this is not the experience of those of us working in social care. Nevertheless, […]
CEO Review of the week 17th to 23rd May
Review of the week 17th to 23rd May This has been the week when the Scottish Government has published their Route map to drive us out from lockdown into […]
Urgent Update Information on Gloves
The following letter is being sent out by NSS and underlines the continuation of current practice. [pdf-embedder url=”https://scottishcare.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/UPDATE-Vinyl-Gloves.pdf” title=”UPDATE – Vinyl Gloves”][vc_btn title=”Download” shape=”square” color=”info” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fscottishcare.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2020%2F05%2FUPDATE-Vinyl-Gloves.pdf|||”]