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Nick Kempe: Hostages to Covid –the rights of care home residents and their relatives
17.07.20July 17, 2020

“We need to re-enable families to look after older people where they so wish and address the income and housing issues that currently prevent this.”

Analysis, Opinion

Nick Kempe: Hostages to Covid –the rights of care home residents and their relatives


Nick Kempe: There is no sign the Scottish Government has learnt from the care sector’s lack of preparation for a pandemic
24.06.20June 24, 2020

“As the number of Covid-19 cases and deaths thankfully drop, it is more important than ever that pressure is kept on government to account for what has gone wrong and use this to inform a proper plan to protect older and other vulnerable people should Covid-19 return.”

Opinion

Nick Kempe: There is no sign the Scottish Government has learnt from the care sector’s lack of preparation for a pandemic


Nick Kempe: The care home crisis begs the question – what is the Care Inspectorate for?
17.06.20June 17, 2020

“The failure is with our centralised, under-resourced and bureaucratised systems that did not prepare properly for a pandemic and don’t have the flexibility to respond to the Covid-19 crisis as a crisis – a system that keeps the people responsible for regulation distanced from what they are supposed to be regulating.”

Analysis, Opinion

Nick Kempe: The care home crisis begs the question – what is the Care Inspectorate for?


Nick Kempe: The Scottish Government should put older people, their families and care staff at the heart of the care system
10.06.20June 10, 2020

“A bottom up review of the care home system would enable the workforce to help re-design a system that depends on them.”

Opinion

Nick Kempe: The Scottish Government should put older people, their families and care staff at the heart of the care system


Nick Kempe: Isolation, human rights and keeping older people safe in care homes
03.06.20June 3, 2020

“The immediate need is that the Scottish Government learns from mistakes that have probably cost hundreds of lives. This is not an argument that the Scottish Government has done better or worse than other governments, but simply that they need to be open about what has gone wrong, consult and act.”

Opinion

Nick Kempe: Isolation, human rights and keeping older people safe in care homes


Nick Kempe: Scottish Government response to care home crisis proves why older people need a voice
26.05.20May 26, 2020

“Accepting Jeanne Freeman at her word, why didn’t she realise what anyone working at the coalface in the sector could have told her – that discharging any infected person from hospital to a care home could have disastrous consequences?”

Opinion

Nick Kempe: Scottish Government response to care home crisis proves why older people need a voice


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