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Elderly care: expert to review quality and regulation
Ministers will today set up an independent review of elderly care in England, as the health watchdog publishes a damning report into the private provider exposed by Panorama.
10:00PM BST 27 Jul 2011
An expert in the sector will look into how “quality and regulation” can be improved amid growing concern that pensioners and disabled people are receiving substandard treatment from the NHS and local councils.
The Department of Health believes the failures at the private hospital run by Castlebeck, where undercover filming exposed the abuse of adults with learning disabilities, are “totally unacceptable”.
Whitehall sources say they will not tolerate poor standards at a company paid millions of pounds by taxpayers to protect some of society’s most vulnerable members.
State-of- the-art care home could be completed by the end of next year
Joy as £6m care site takes shape
WORK on a long-awaited state-of- the-art care home could be completed by the end of next year.
Grwp Gwalia’s new nursing care home on land to the rear of the existing Mynydd Mawr Hospital in Upper Tumble looks on track to be completed by the end of 2012.
A spokeswoman for Gwalia — the care and housing provider — said: “Since March the foundations and other groundworks have been completed and the building’s footprint is now starting to take shape.
NHS and local government team up with Age UK to improve care for older people
The commission hopes to report its findings in Spring 2012 but what happens between now and then.
Source : Age UK / NHS Confederation / LG Group
Published on 20 July 2011 12:30 AM
The NHS Confederation, Local Government Group (LG Group) and Age UK are joining forces to establish a commission on improving dignity in care provided to older patients in hospitals and care homes
