Board Meeting

Today is a Board meeting day and before that a small group of us held a meeting with Peter Hawkins from ReQuired Systems to discuss and plan what manuals might be needed to meet the new expectations of the Care Quality Commission. Any manuals that we produce will need to reflect the change of emphasis from National Minimum Standards to Conditions of Registration and the Care Quality Commission’s declared intention that they will be monitoring outcomes and not inputs.

We had a good meeting and Peter is going to begin work around the areas we discussed while we wait for the final decisions from both the Government and the Care Quality Commission.

At the Board meeting the Board ratified the guide to negotiating fee levels with Local Authorities co produced by our solicitors Brunswick and ourselves.

This important guide is now available to download as a members benefit. Anyone wanting a copy should email us here and he will email the guide back by return.

The Board also ratified National Care Association’s submission to the House of Commons Health Committee. The Committee had called for evidence on The Future funding of Long Term Residential and Domiciliary Care for Older People and People with Physical or Learning Disabilities.

Protocol of the House of Commons decrees that we may not publish submitted evidence and that in due course the Health Committee itself will publish. If a member would like to see the evidence please send me an email I will oblige.