Wrong priorities CQC. Should be working hard to keep residents in care homes safe. Andrea Sutcliffe & more than 250 inspectors were sent to care homes to promote National Care Home Open Day 2014. Did they not have more pressing work to do like investigating and protecting vulnerable people? On the day 40 MP’s, MSP’s & AM’s visited along with countless Mayors, Councillors, local dignitaries. The above do not want to know the other 364 days of the year ! All the old favourites we read about day in day out in the press, reporting on neglect, abuse, even death ..... BUPA, Care UK, Four Seasons, Barchester, HC-One, are here in this report promoting National Care Home Open Day. For me personally, I expect a care home to be a place of privacy, dignity, care and respect. We do not need to open the doors wide open to the community. I was a black sheep in 2014 when I posted my thoughts on this event last year. My opinion remains the same, and now on the 19 June we have it to look forward to all over again. This is nothing but a PR exercise, to give care providers a public platform to sell their product. Every day in a care home should have the same amount of effort put into it. Many of these care homes who appeared in the press last year, were praised for the fantastic activities etc they put on, alongside the happy photographs of staff and residents. Here at YVM we know for a fact that for residents in many of these care homes written about, activities hardly happen the remainder of the year, but for one day only, all the stops are pulled out for this opportunity to win over the public, or should I say deceive. A care worker approached us to say in a care home for dementia especially, this change in routine and an influx of unfamiliar people could unsettle residents and it was not right. I then started to look at this from yet another angle. The more I thought about it, the more I could see what they were saying was right. I challenged Andrea Sutcliffe who failed to see my point and remained of the opinion it was a good thing. I was told that residents who would find it unsettling or something that would distress them, would be kept away in another area of the care home. WHY should a resident have their normal access to the care home restricted for this? There is no consideration to the residents whatsoever and I personally think it is appalling. If I ran a care home, I would not need an Open Day to tell people how great I am. My residents would be cared for, their families happy, as would my staff and that is all would matter to me. Word of mouth is the best form of advertising you can get and that is all that National Care Home Open Day is - a day created to SELL. Jenny file:///C:/Users/Eric%20Moore/Downloads/Barings%20Booklet%20Nov%202014.pdf
Posted on: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 16:36:01 +0000
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