12/5/2023 10:34:55 AM CQC prosecutes two care providers for failing to protect residents from the risk of avoidable harm By Precious Mealia In our regulatory round-up ebriefings, we have been discussing for some time the steady rise in the number of prosecutions brought by the...
2/15/2022 3:10:40 PM A coroner's thoughts - fire safety in care homes By Lorna Kenyon-Pain I was interested to read the Report for the Prevention of Future Deaths (PFD) issued by the Senior Coroner for Hertfordshire to Michael...
10/18/2021 8:31:33 AM Care provider pleads guilty to corporate manslaughter By Lorna Kenyon-Pain Prosecutions for corporate manslaughter are relatively rare - but recently we have seen a care provider, Aster Healthcare, plead guilty...
7/21/2021 3:29:14 PM CQC publishes data on Covid-19 related deaths in care homes By Lorna Kenyon-Pain On Wednesday 21 July, the CQC published data regarding the number of Covid-19 related deaths at each care home in England. There has been...