Originally posted by Pauldo@Sep 5 2005, 10:31 AM


And we thought the PI had some crap regulations and rules :huh:
Our family business (or will be WAS) is an private old peoples residential home, and it makes my blood boil that little sh&ts sitting in an office somewhere in London make up rules and regulations that are bordering on the stupid and at best unworkable.

Heres an example, currently the residential home is run on an owner-manager basis, and we have 50 years of running this type of business in the family. SO you could say we know our what we're doing. However, under the Care Standards Act, all home must be run by an appointed manager with at least an NVQ Level 4 qualification, BUT the owner of the home will still be liable. Anyway, in order for us to sell the home, we have had to appoint a Manager with the required NVQ4 standard, which we have done. BUT Care Standards must vet their application and take up references, we cant!! Now for the sting in the tail, having appointed the Manager to run the home, the Care Standards now say that this manager is not good enough, even though she has the required level of standards and 30 years experience of being a Residential Home Manager. So WE have to sack her because shes no good (according to Care Standards). So we are doing the dirty work of the Care Standards, who wont sack her, even though they approved her in the first place. AAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHH!

I will say this now, and I know it will be a reailty, in 20-30 years time, the UK will have a severe shortage of nursing home and care home provision all because the current regime are regulating to such an extent that a lot of homes have to close as they cannot meet the cost of standards. Its a disaster waiting to happen.

One things for sure, I'd hate to grow old in the UK, its disgusting how old people are treated - pushed from pillar to post, shoved around like they are a liability on the state.

We've had the last laugh though, the agency with does regular inspections of private nursing homes, called the CSIW is being abolished. Why? Because there are so few homes left to inspect? Why is that? Because they've shut them all down, and basically done themselves out of a job. :lol: