Care4e

Calling for better social care & safe hospital discharge for Dementia patients & others in North East England. Concerned with law & governance in healthcare.

[Care4e @care4e]

@CitAdvNewcastle will have you waiting on their advice line for over 45 mins, then disconnect your call and forward you to the national number with a message stating advisers are not available. Care to explain this failure in your service?

[Care4e @care4e]

@neilmcrowther Why do LAs currently use assessors (who are not regulated) rather than social workers? Because they’re cheaper? Or perhaps because there is no statutory body to regulate them meaning there is no one to complain to, unlike social workers under Social Work England

[Care4e @care4e]

@neilmcrowther Will this be reflected in the development of professional bodies to regulate the standards and quality of work from those employed in these newly created care careers?

[Care4e @care4e]

@juliesharp86 Try Holland and Barrett psyllium husks in tablet form. This is a herbal product, not chemical.

[Care4e @care4e]

@Hazelgrove_3 No, they just know they’re operating in a culture which will allow them to get away with it-most of the time.

[Care4e @care4e]

@awocconsult @ExpressGilo @Mike_Padgham @AWOCUK You mean those who can afford to pay solicitors to “fight the system” for them.

[Care4e @care4e]

@sadiewaterson @neilmcrowther I’d like to see less 3rd sector involvement (please no more locally funded “advocacy” services who act as poorly informed handmaidens to incompetent LAs) Replace them with direct service user engagement.

[LGC @lgcplus]

Andrew Cozens: We need a commissioner for care and support
https://t.co/WGXG93xypy

[Care4e @care4e]

@Haloabletec It really isn’t just about inadequacy in statutory social care. It is about apathetic communities, political complacency and poverty of intelligence and skills in those representing those communities. Failure runs rampant throughout.

[Care4e @care4e]

@Haloabletec I think the bigger question is the safety and well-being of those 80% still living in their homes and what percentage of that group was unable to access the support they needed due to lack of community provision.

[Care4e @care4e]

@jadewelshy Apparently the justice system is only operating in certain postcodes. Check out the Law Society blog regarding “legal aid deserts”. You are protected in law theoretically only.

[Dr Chris Day @drcmday]

Gotta love the Employment Tribunal

NHS Employer conceals & destroys evidence (admits to it). No action or negative inference.
https://t.co/CFseLOmHcL

Claimant destroys evidence after winning case. The sky falls in on them.

https://t.co/VFdvsioG3G

Employer wins both cases!

[Care4e @care4e]

@michaelscat2 Can anyone explain the issue with having a bobcat in your house?

[Care4e @care4e]

@juliesharp86 @claretarling @IntegratedNHS @NHSAbility Often “advocacy” is little more than assisting you to write a letter of complaint with the assumption that you lack the necessary literacy skills. The definition is very fluid depending on your postcode. If you live in a legal aid void, no one will act on your behalf.

[PCJ @Hazelgrove_5]

@legalfutures Let's hope the #SRA ensures families receive accountability when there is evidence a solicitor lacks integrity and whose conduct could be considered improper & dishonest by an ordinary person

[Michael's Cat @michaelscat2]

This cat just walked into my home and doesn't leave.. What am I supposed to do with her now?

[Care4e @care4e]

@michaelscat2 Consider yourself adopted.

[Care4e @care4e]

@suzyg001 @draevans @juliesharp86 So who should the CQC be investigating then?

[Care4e @care4e]

@dotslondon Well done!