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“My mother loved children. She didn’t care how many she had as long as we were all healthy”

Reunion for descendants of Holt Williamson family of 19

 Williamson family reunion. Picture: Ian Burt

Monday, September 8, 2014

Their descendants are now scattered across the world, but the 19 children of Maud and Albert Williamson were all brought up in a little two bedroom cottage off Letheringsett Hill, in Holt

A lot of children in one house

Raising more than a dozen children in one house took a lot of organisation, and Joyce Milce said she remembered her brothers sleeping top-to-tail, six in one bed.

Are 15-minute homecare visits always bad?

Shorter visits can have a place within a wider care package

Why 15-minute homecare visits should be bannedShr

  • Guardian Professional,
‘Service users often wish to know what time people are going to turn up and for how long they will stay.’

Local authority commissioners often face criticism for the regimented way they purchase care and particularly for the hourly rates they offer. Interested observers will talk about the need to purchase care around outcomes, rather than the seemingly outdated method of paying by the hour, half hour or 15 minutes. In reality this is a bit of a holy grail as very few local authorities have mastered the art of outcome-based commissioning. This is made more difficult by the fact that service users often wish to know what time people are going to turn up and for how long they will stay. There is also the small matter of deciding how to pay for such arrangements.

Hospital failure regime extended to care homes

The process was introduced by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) a year ago at 11 failing trusts.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-28308104

A system of special measures designed to improve failing hospitals in England is to be extended to care homes, the government is expected to announce.

The process was introduced by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) a year ago at 11 failing trusts.

Most have since made progress – although only five have been or are being taken out of special measures.