When we said 'Good', we meant 'Bad' - CQC reverses ratings on care homes
Could it be that the inspectors failed to notice problems a year ago? Or could it be that they were not there?
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Sarah Whitebloom
May 20, 20185 min read
Authorities fail to notice serious care home failings - Worst Homes of Week
Concerns about the awareness and effectiveness of the authorities do not in any way excuse bad care
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Sarah Whitebloom
May 12, 20185 min read
CQC to shut Fawlty Towers care home
From the dry report emerged a figure better placed in fiction - the dictatorial, angry and insensitive owner/manager
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Sarah Whitebloom
May 11, 20182 min read
The CMA can act over scandal of fees for bad care homes - but you must complain
So problems on a postcard to the CMA
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Sarah Whitebloom
May 4, 20181 min read
Best Care Home of the Week: Northview Lodge, Sunderland
It may sound weird for OLM, but credit where it is due: Britain's biggest homes group, HC-One, has turned Northview Lodge in Sunderland...
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Sarah Whitebloom
May 4, 20184 min read
Care Residents left at risk - despite Regulator knowing care home is unsafe
It never fails to shock that older and vulnerable people live in unsafe and disgusting conditions. It is so much worse when the...
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Sarah Whitebloom
Apr 29, 20183 min read
Understaffed, unclean and unsafe. Tales from the Worst Homes of the Week: Queens Care Centre, Rother
A relative told the inspectors: 'If my family member is sat there day after day in the wrong wheelchair, without her glasses, in someone
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Sarah Whitebloom
Apr 27, 20182 min read
Sussex Healthcare: Can it get any worse? ...Yes.
Both homes have been named by WSCC has having significant safeguarding concerns and yet they are still home to more than 60 adults.
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Sarah Whitebloom
Apr 21, 20184 min read
Exceptional Care. Are they kidding? CQC slams 'highest quality' (Inadequate) Merstone Hall
Merstone Hall's use of pictures does raise a smile - for sheer chutzpah.
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Sarah Whitebloom
Apr 14, 20183 min read
The Best of Care, The Worst of Care - OLM best and worst homes of the week
Best home of the week Red Oaks, Worst homes of the week Orchard Lodge, Horsham and Duchess Gardens, Bingley
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Sarah Whitebloom
Apr 11, 20182 min read
Significant Safeguarding Concerns over three Sussex Healthcare homes as CQC slaps an 'Inadequat
Local authority says it has concerns over significant shortcomings as Inadequate notice slapped on Orchard Lodge
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Sarah Whitebloom
Apr 6, 20182 min read
Holy Smoke. Saints do not necessarily preserve us when it comes to care homes
There are 108 homes with names beginning Abbe and Abbot and some 39 per cent of these 'require improvement' or are even 'inadequ
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Sarah Whitebloom
Mar 31, 20182 min read
Mistreatment found by CQC during urgent whistle-blower investigation
Even while the CQC was at Westacre there were allegations of abusive behaviour
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Sarah Whitebloom
Mar 24, 20184 min read
'Dirty Dozen' care homes unsafe - elderly kept in bed 20 hours a day for lack of staff
Elderly kept in bed 20 hours a day because of lack of staff
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Sarah Whitebloom
Mar 18, 20184 min read
Homes branded 'Inadequate' by CQC still given glowing website reports by big care groups
The delivery of care was reliant on individual members of the staff...not based on good leadership
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Sarah Whitebloom
Mar 10, 20183 min read
One carer for 17 vulnerable residents - a new low in the Worst Homes of the Week?
Residents were found to be on the brink of malnutrition, neglected, in danger and ignored.
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Sarah Whitebloom
Mar 8, 20183 min read
Squalid, filthy and inhumane: another week in the life of Britain's care homes.
OLM is not making it up and we make no apology for highlighting the worst cases each week
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Sarah Whitebloom
Feb 28, 20181 min read
Choosing care one of life's most stressful experiences? Check out OLM's Top 10 tips
OLM was set up to help people struggling with the problems associated old age. Few are as difficult as choosing a care home or a carer -...
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Sarah Whitebloom
Feb 24, 20183 min read
Second death and police probe of abuse allegations send CQC teams into 'Good' care homes - a
Very very unsafe. Very scary
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Sarah Whitebloom
Feb 21, 20183 min read
FOREST CARE VILLAGE - WORST CARE HOME OF THE WEEK
Forest Care Village in Borehamwood was OLM’s unequalled Worst Care Home of the Week last week – not least because of a police...
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