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Issue 48 17.03.21

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Home given accolade for commitment

THE team at New Care’s Bramhall Manor care centre in Stockport has received a special Making a Difference award from the local NHS Foundation Trust. Personally delivered and presented by chief executive Karen James OBE as part of the Trust’s wider ‘Thank You February’ initiative, the certificate recognises the care home’s outstanding contribution and dedicated commitment during the Covid19 pandemic. She also gave them a selection of fresh fruit and cakes. Karen said: “The New Care team has worked successfully in partnership with us to provide positive outcomes for hundreds of patients over the last 12 months. “It has been an incredible partnership and one that we hope to continue to support the needs of those patients discharged from hospital who still require some transitional support prior to returning to their home.” Bramhall Manor is one of only a handful of local healthcare organisations to receive the award. Upon opening in March last year, it was commissioned in its entirety by Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, which also

runs Stepping Hill Hospital, NHS Stockport CCG and Stockport Council as part of a joint Borough-wide plan to respond to the pandemic. Over the last 12 months the team at the home has worked to help ease the pressure on the NHS in the locality by offering a solution to the shortfall of hospital beds by caring for those who are well enough to leave hospital but not quite able to care for themselves. The partnership has been instrumental in helping the local NHS deal with the increase in hospital admissions, both as a result of the pandemic and also during the recent busy winter months. Registered manager at Bramhall Manor, Sarah Lydon, added: “It was wonderful to receive the surprise visit from Karen and we are delighted to have been presented with a Make a Difference certificate. “The situation with the pandemic has not always been easy, but we have worked hand-in-hand with Stockport NHS Foundation Trust to ensure the delivery of a seamless care service for many residents before they return to their own homes after a hospital stay and are pleased that the project has been successful.”

Operator’s ‘thank you’ message

A Dorset care home resident who suffered a major stroke affecting her mobility has begun a cycle challenge in aid of a hospice charity. Despite being unable to walk, Molly Tarrant is aiming to ride 100 miles on her static physiotherapy bike, the equivalent distance from her care home to London. Ex-factory supervisor Molly has lived at Colten Care’s Bourne View home in Poole since just after her stroke more than two years ago. It left her with loss of movement in both her legs and her right arm. Since then, she has been carrying out daily exercises to rebuild her strength, regain muscle mass and help with overall rehabilitation. Molly is being coached on her bike ride by Bourne View Companionship Team members Paul Wookey and Brian Ramsey. Together they agreed to turn her daily exercise into a way of raising £1,000 for Poole-based charity Lewis-Manning Hospice Care.

SAINT Cecilia’s Care Group has unveiled its own thank you message to fellow care workers, the NHS and all keyworkers for their efforts in the fight against Covid-19. Marking the first anniversary of the pandemic, across all of its five centres in Scarborough and Pickering, the care group has added a thank you message to its own signs. It reads: ‘To the doctors, nurses, carers and all keyworkers we say a huge Thank You!’. Managing director Mike Padgham said: “We wanted to say a huge thank you to our own staff and also to all our fellow care workers and all the NHS staff and other keyworkers for an amazing year of selfless, compassionate and outstanding hard work,” he said. “All keyworkers in so many fields have put the care of others ahead of their own health and safety for a full year now and we owe them a debt of gratitude. “This is our way of spreading that message of thanks to all those who have done so much for the community.” The signs are clearly visible at Saint Cecilia’s Nursing Home on Filey Road, Saint Cecilia’s Care Home on Stepney Road, Normanby House on Belgrave Crescent and Saint Cecilia’s Day Care Centre at Eastway, Eastfield, all in Scarborough and at Alba Rose Care Home on Middleton Road, Pickering.

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Home retains Good CQC rating across the board LARKHILL Hall in Liverpool has received ‘Good’ news following its latest inspection from the Care Quality Commission. The inspection, which took place in early January, saw the care home retain its ‘Good’ rating after hitting the spot across all five key areas of care: safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led. Newly appointed home manager Aaron Flitcroft, who joined in early December with more than 13 years’ care sector experience, has already inspired the team with his passion for person-centred care and promoting independence. He said: “It is a proud moment to receive this report and to maintain our ‘Good’ rating across the board. “Having the seal of approval from the CQC is testament to the team, proving that all our hard work to constantly deliver the highest standards of care has paid off – a hugely positive start to the year. “This result will provide a boost to the team at this time when they have given so much to their residents throughout the course of this global pandemic.” During the visit, inspectors observed day to day life at the home and examined paperwork, policies and care plans. They spoke to residents and

Home manager Aaron Flitcroft, resident David Threlkeld and the Larkhill team proudly display their latest CQC score. to build on its last ‘Good’ report family members, along with care from 2019. Inspectors also noted the workers and management to gather home’s commitment to infection a full picture prior to compiling control, PPE, testing and training, the complimentary report which concluded that Larkhill Hall staff, who with Larkhill scoring top marks across all infection prevention and control provide care for up to 66 residents, areas. promote a positive culture that is In direct response to the Covidopen, inclusive and empowering, 19 pandemic, Ideal Carehomes achieving positive outcomes for the successfully implemented a unique people who live at the home. ‘Ideal Fresh Living’ initiative which The constant theme running sees the care team being at the through the report was that residents forefront of infection control and and staff feel supported and happy hygiene policies. and that the home has continued

It was ‘eyes down’ for the residents at Moorgate Lodge in Rotherham as they attempted to win a full house during a game of bingo. They dusted off their dabbers as they took on two fat ladies and two little ducks to become ‘top of the shop’. Mecca Bingo contacted the home about providing residents with some remote entertainment. After dropping off dabbers and game cards in plenty of time for Covid-secure isolation, hosts from the bingo giant joined the residents via Zoom for an hour of lines, full houses and bingo.

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How safe are your ratings? ABUSE of power and of the process of law is now common in our society, the norm even. With delays of many months in bringing litigation by way of judicial review to a hearing in the courts, public bodies are growing increasingly blasé about any such challenge, and have become masters of the dark art of doing just enough to evade a hearing of such applications and the likely consequent public judgement. The Care Quality Commission is not merely no different from any other public body in this regard, it is a leader in the field. In late 2013 CQC issued fixed penalty notices on a blanket basis without individual assessment to providers having a registered manager vacancy of six months or more. Not one of these was the outcome of an inspection. They had dished out 570 such FPNs when my application for judicial review stopped the policy, preventing an estimated further 900 or so notices. In a letter to me dated December 16 2013 CE David Behan explained that, while they recognised the national shortage of suitable managers, they ‘had to do something’, and that the so-called “Registered managers project” was expected to be a catalyst for change. A signed confession as to abuse of the process of law. Criminal penalties arise exclusively on an individual basis. In early 2015 CQC started to apply the new Regulated Activities Regulations 2014 retrospectively. The regulations were actually in force from April 1 2015, but about 700 site inspections carried out before that date but not yet published were retrospectively stated to have been ‘judged’ against the new regulations, even including some carried out before the minister signed and published them in November 2014. No signed confession needed here, just look at the front of the published inspection reports. The (unlawful) purpose was to avoid difficulties in prosecution of an ongoing breach if no warning notice had been issued under the old regulations prior to April 2015, under which it had been a necessary precursor. CQC set a policy some time back of a blanket refusal to provide copies of inspection notes, behind a facade of allowing selective response to enquiry at their absolute discretion. Providers are entitled to know the basis of a ‘case against them’ and the policy offends against the convention rights of providers under the justice system in this jurisdiction. In April 2019 CQC set a limit on factual accuracy responses to inspection reports of 975 characters for each point made (a last-minute compromise on the 500-character limit of the sham consultation on it), requiring providers to use a new fac form that achieved that limit. I served CQC with a Letter before Action by way of judicial review on June 12 2019. The fac response is the single final opportunity to challenge the accuracy and proportionality of a document that may be relied on in proceedings including criminal proceedings. Arguments not made at the time (for whatever reason) may not be ‘raised’ in later appeal proceedings. Inspection reports are a component of the justice

system. CQC is part of the justice system and not the other way around, and has no authority to constrain the rights concerned. CQC withdrew the character limit on June 27 2019. A core theme of the constraints placed on providers in recent years has been the relentless push towards elimination of the right of response and challenge to draft inspection reports. In its, er, consultation on changes to the inspection regime CQC now proposes to reduce its use of site visits to conduct inspections. CQC is to “move away from using comprehensive, on-site inspection as the main way of updating ratings”. Predictable in 2021, although the last move away from site visits was abandoned after Winterbourne View. CQC is marketing this change as “a less rigid approach that allows us to update ratings more often when we recognise changes in quality and to make our on-site inspections more targeted and flexible”. The consultation document says: “We want to stop describing frequency of assessment in terms of ‘inspection’, and instead by how often we review quality and update ratings.” The Care Quality Commission is in reality proposing to divorce ratings from (site) inspections. Why? Section 62 of the HSCA 2008 provides that where an inspection is carried out for the purposes of the Commission’s functions the Commission must prepare a report on the matters inspected, and without delay send a copy of the report to the registered person; and that the Commission must publish the (final) report. The explanatory notes to the Act make it very clear that this is intended to provide the opportunity for comment on the draft. The Act does not explicitly provide that “inspections” must be done at site visits, but the explanatory notes to the Act make the intention clear beyond any argument that they should be: “In carrying out its functions, the Commission will engage with patients and service users and people involved in the provision of care and will also need to inspect relevant premises.” Performance ratings are by regulations a “function” of the CQC. If CQC succeeds in divorcing ratings from inspections (or rather their definition of them as site visits), then there is no statutory provision requiring a draft report or the right of reply to the proposed ratings. Game set and match on any right of reply to the findings and judgements of the overwhelming majority of inspections (or at least everyone else’s definition of them). It is no surprise that the consultation does not mention draft reports or right of reply in the new methodology. Under settled CQC policy, ratings are the trigger for “special measures” up to and including cancellation of registration. What more needs to be said? This latest, and perhaps most serious, abuse of the rights of care providers by the Care Quality Commission must be stopped in its tracks. In the Courts if need be. Email me at mail@hsc-prof.com to sign up for regular alerts and updates on coronavirus and the rest. Alternatively, visit my Facebook or Twitter pages at @ hsc_prof

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Care home staff and families support Plymouth Foodbank STAFF and families of residents at a dementia care home in St Budeaux have been coming together to collect items for Plymouth Foodbank. Abby Wiseman, manager of Butterfly Lodge, was inspired to start the collection after seeing news stories about the difficulties some parents have been experiencing in feeding their families during lockdown. She said: “Following the media coverage about the need for food boxes for school pupils, we decided to help out where we could. “We collected, nappies, wipes, toothbrushes, and various cleaning products, as well as personal items,

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June opening for innovative new home A LUXURY 78-bed Cheshire care home with its own authentic gastro pub and farmers market is set to open its doors in early June. Priesty Fields, a state-of-the-art, purpose-built residential care home in Congleton, will offer prospective residents a space where they can maintain their independence and live fulfilling lives. Nestled in a green residential area close to the market town’s centre, the home will include 78 spacious en-suite bedrooms, along with a gastro pub, farmers market, cinema, spa, salon, gym, library, private dining room, garden lounge and GP office. Care director Rishi Sodha said: “We’re delighted to announce Priesty Fields will be opening its doors in early June, offering an outstanding environment that enables staff to provide outstanding care. “Priesty Fields will be a place where people, no matter their age, can maintain their independence and live fulfilling lives amidst a backdrop

An aerial view of Priesty Fields that is currently under construction in Congleton. of innovative and comforting we’ve hit a few bumps in the road, surroundings. having been impacted by both Brexit “The building is being carefully and Covid-19, so we’re pleased that designed to incorporate our care our vision to offer an authentic, philosophy at Handsale; empowering engaging environment is back on staff, so they can offer the highest track and nearing completion. quality of person-centred care. “Now we have a set timeline in “Since development started in 2019 place, we can start working on

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Care manager Bernadine Davies in the refurbished office space. Dr Moss and Dr Joshua Macauley acquired 18 Highgate in 2017 when they set up the company. During its long history the building has served as a coaching house for the adjacent Ye Olde Fleece Inn, has been run as a greengrocer by Webbs and as a Wimpy bar. “We thought it was in an amazing location,” added Chris. “It is a Grade Two Listed Building and has a story to tell – over the years it has been there to help people in various ways and that very much ties in with the underlying ethos of Westmorland Homecare. “But it had been empty for six years and we had a vision to turn it into a really fantastic building,” Some initial work was carried out, but the company quickly outgrew the usable space available and so staff moved temporarily to

offices above Kendal Post Office while planning permission was sought to carry out extensive, but sensitive, refurbishments. The company and its building contractor, Goodson Developments of Kendal, worked closely with conservation officers. Some of the funding for the works came from a European Union grant through The Cumbria Fells and Dales LEADER project. New staircases, windows and skylights were installed, ceiling heights raised on the first floor and a steel frame had to be built within the old building due to the structural integrity of the existing stonework. “We effectively build a building within a building,” Chris added. “We worked hard to preserve the original features, such as stonework, while ensuring the building met the latest thermal efficiency standards, which involved installing a new eco heating system and thick insulation. “There is a beautiful interior design using Laura Ashley products. It does not feel like an office – from the moment you walk in it feels like a home and that ties in with our aim to look after and care for our clients and staff as best we can. “We want our staff to feel relaxed and working and training in a lovely environment helps. We have made sure it is a very special place.” The building, which stretches 80 metres back from its Highgate frontage, now contains office space, meeting and training rooms and the full bedroom used for teaching new members of staff about caring for clients.

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