We are delighted to announce the launch of our Care Home Management Service. We have launched the national service after seeing an increased demand from care homes across the UK for management support. Our service is aimed at operators wishing to take a step back from day to day involvement in managing their homes, are looking to sell the business and require an interim solution, or who would just like to remove the stress of dealing with CQC and the Local Authority. Over recent months, an increasing number of operators have been askin...
Our NLW advice appears in March issue of Caring UK
The March issue of Caring UK magazine is also carrying our advice about the 10 steps all care homes should be taking to combat the impact of the National Living Wage. To read the article in full please visit http://www.caring-uk.co.uk/ and see page 14 of the March issue or click here.Caring UK - March 1st 2017...
Caresolve in this month’s issue of Caring Times
How can care homes cope with the increases in the National Living Wage? The latest issue of Caring Times (March 2017) contains our article all about the impact of the National Living Wage on the care home sector. In it we talk about our work on the NLW increases and how they will have an impact the profits of operators. We believe that an increase in weekly fees of 2% per annum will result in profits dropping to 70% of current levels by the year 2021. And an increase of 3% will not be enough to keep profits at the current level bey...
Is your care home effective?
Of the five key questions that the Care Quality Commission (CQC) asks when carrying out care home inspections, arguably the two most important are: Are they caring? Are they effective? While the questions surrounding safety and leadership are the two were homes will typically fall down most, the caring and effectiveness issues get to the nub of the service our care facilities are there to provide. So what makes an effective care home and what does it take to give yourself the best chance of achieving not just a good CQC rating, but an out...