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Category Archives: Social Care
STOP PRESS: Mimosa meltdown!!!!
Strong rumours reverberating on the Blogger’s newswires say that the manager and long-term secretary at Mimosa Healthcare’s ailing Kingsmead Lodge Nursing Home in Shire walked out earlier today this month. (This is what happens when you spend the afternoon at … Continue reading
Fwd: Mr Steve Norman`s letter; reply
Dear colleagues You will probably be aware of a report on BBC’s Inside Out programme last night which highlighted recent failings at a number of residential care homes in Bristol run by Mimosa. Care is graded by the Commission for … Continue reading
Missing in action: Stephen McNamara
Is that a lycra-clad lawyer clutching an old wig I see disappearing over the horizon? The Bristol Blogger, November 25 2009 Yep, as predicted, the tragic old wig-wearer has done a runner. As a major care scandal gently laps at … Continue reading
Fancy that! "I will be out of the office at meetings on Monday 7 December 09"
Oh look! The putative head of our city’s “atrocious” adult care services – “Why don’t you fucking go home Cathy?” Morgan – is not contactable today because she’s “at meetings”. Ho! Ho! Ho! When do we get her resignation then?
The art of blogging: just keep banging your head against that brick wall …
… Until the right people start listening: Job done!
"Institutional abuse" identified in Bristol's care homes
Today’s report from the Care Quality Commission (CQS) in to Bristol’s adult care services is mainy a text book example of what happens when the dead hand of bureaucracy meets impenetrable New Labour social jargon. So we’ve got an “Annual … Continue reading
REVEALED: £2m cuts for the city's most vulnerable
While our idiot councillors and idiot senior council officers write out a blank cheque to an international Swiss gangster operation for something between £17m and £40m – depending on who you want to believe – to host four football matches … Continue reading
Posted in Bristol, Budget, Economy, Health, Home Care, Local government, Politics, Privatisation, Social Care, World Cup 2018
Tagged FIFA, Resources Scrutiny Commission
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"They will not get a brass farthing"
The Steve Norman “come on and take me to court then” story appears in today’s Evening Cancer. A couple of passages are worth further analysis: Police, social services and the watchdog the Care Quality Commission (CSCI) investigated earlier this year … Continue reading