Tag Archives: care

Patients to inspect hospitals

July 18, 2013   Carers, hospital, Older care

‘I want a small army’: Hospitals chief inspector urges patients and ex-doctors to join battle to weed out poor care

  • Squads with doctors and nurses to probe care at all NHS trusts
  • 9 of 11 failing trusts were  passed as safe by Care Quality Commission
  • Chief inspector Sir Mike Richards: ‘I will not tolerate poor or mediocre care’
  • By Sophie Borland and Matt Chorley

PUBLISHED: 23:43, 17 July 2013 | UPDATED: 08:52, 18 July 2013

The CQC’s new chief inspector of hospitals, Professor Sir Mike Richards, admitted today the previous CQC inspections had been flawed. He said: ‘We wouldn’t be changing it if it wasn’t.’

Patients, ex-doctors and carers are to be recruited to join a ‘small army’ of hospital inspectors to root-out poor care.

They will form 15-strong squads with doctors and nurses which will carry out thorough investigations of all NHS trusts over the next two years.

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App will help patients and carers

July 17, 2013   Carers, disability, health, hospital, Social care

App offers NHS patients in Manchester the chance to digitally manage their care plans

Manchester’s Clinical Commissioning Groups have engaged creative agency and social enterprise SharpFutures to help deliver a tablet application to streamline budget planning for patients and carers. The project brings together The Sharp Project tenants TouchSoft Limited and social enterprise SharpFutures to create the free app designed to help those with long-term health care needs.

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Aberdeen firm unveils wheelchair-friendly cars

July 16, 2013   Carers, disability, Scotland

By FRANK URQUHART
Published on 16/07/2013 13:43

AN Aberdeen-based car club today launched the UK’s first wheelchair adapted vehicle for street hires by the public.

The new service, launched by Aberdeen’s Co-Wheels car club, will provide a car, accessible to wheelchair users, that can be hired by their carers or family on a pay-as-you-go basis.

A club spokeswoman explained: “The new service will remove the need to own such a vehicle for what maybe infrequent use. Many elderly people confined to wheelchairs are unable to get out from their care homes simply because they and their family do not have access to such a vehicle.

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