OlderLivingMatters

Reading through the disappointing Care Quality Commission's 2023/4 report on adult social care, published today, came across the shocking...

Older and vulnerable people deserve to know more - and better.

Health Secretary Wes Streeting MP yesterday announced the Care Quality Commission, the 'care regulator', is 'not fit for purpose - to...

Is this what campaigners for 'assisted dying' envisage? People preferring to die because the life that has been inflicted on them is so awfu

The overwhelming majority of care homes which have been forced to close by the Care Quality Commission have been for-profit homes,...

Care home reports are based on the Ofsted inspection system and are failing care home residents and families.

Sorry, it has been a long time, more than 18 months, since OLM last posted a blog. And, sad to say, not much has changed. Care homes,...

AT LAST - The Care Quality Commission has finally published details today [21 July] of the care homes where people have died...

With Covid cases increasing again in care homes, campaigners are demanding the government organise weekly testing of care staff to...

The country may be shocked, but the Care Quality Commission cannot be surprised at the recent increase of COVID-19 in some of the care...

Partial, confusing, incomplete. The long-promised data published recently by the Care Quality Commission are worse than useless in...

The CQC's carefully-selected information implies the entire care home industry is unsafe

Since May, the Care Quality Commission has refused to reveal if care homes it knew to be unsafe were the site of more of the Covid 19...

The service had a high number of infections and deaths due to Covid 19

Recently published official inspection reports show a series of care homes - including luxury facilities - were found wanting by...

one in five care homes for older people is currently not meeting the required standards

England’s care regulator, the CQC, is poised to reveal how many Covid outbreaks have been in homes which it knew were unsafe

the CQC maintained the 'public interest' would not be served by the publication of this information

Even though CQC inspectors have said these homes are substandard, and sometimes have been for years, they are home to many thousands of olde

When I heard a few days ago that the high-end care home where my father had lived, had 16, yes 16, cases of Covid-19, I was not surprised