The Infection Control Fund: Bean counting in extremis
The first wave of the Infection Control Fund was introduced in May and provided a direct source of funding primarily to…
Visiting in Care Homes: where now?
Why this is such an important issue To deprive people living in care homes of the stimulation and unprecedented…
Now you see them, now you don’t… The invisibility of social care Personal Assistants during the pandemic
NCF guest blog by Dr. John Woolham | NIHR SSCR Senior Research Fellow | Health and…
The Winter’s Tale
The government has now published it’s Covid-19 Winter Plan 2020/21. The full plan can be found here. It is a 52 page…
The Clock is Ticking
With reports of a rise of COVID-19 cases in the UK population and the subsequent increase of outbreaks in care homes,…
CQC Testing Policy Rated Inadequate
You might recall that on 26 August, NCF wrote an open letter to Matt Hancock, Secretary of State for Health and Social…
It’s official – our care workforce do a brilliant job!
The National Care Forum is the leading voice for not-for-profit care providers. Our Policy Director, Liz Jones,…
Step by step – Social care
Regular testing in irregular times The recent announcement confirming the routine and regular weekly testing of care…
Strengthening the Ring of Steel: Reflections on The Care Home Support Package
The National Care Forum is the leading voice for not-for-profit care providers. Our Policy Director, Liz Jones, shares…
#ringofsteel around care homes
On Saturday 18 April, the NCF published ground-breaking data from the independent benchmarking exercise of our members…
Ode to the Unseen Care Worker
Low skilled they called you on before this was begun – as you cared and supported the most vulnerable members of our…
Budget 2020 Roundup
On Wed 11 March, the Chancellor announced a budget with 2 distinct budgets within it; one was an emergency £12bn plan…
Human Rights training for residential care home staff
The British Institute of Human Rights (BIHR) is excited to be on our second year of working together with NCF member…
Patient Hotels – the story continues…
Day 2 of the tour took us first of all to Lund in Sweden. Here we visited a Patient Hotel that had been running for…