Aged care

The Predictable Crisis

Primary Author or Creator

Nick Kempe

Date Published

Wed, 05/20/2020 - 12:00

Fast Facts

Common Weal investigates the impact of Covid-19 in Scottish Care homes and finds that the warnings about the weaknesses in pandemic preparation were repeatedly ignored with the result of causing “The single greatest failure in devolved government since the creation of the Scottish Parliament”

Two thousand deaths later, has infection control in care homes improved?

Primary Author or Creator

Nick Kempe

Date Published

Fri, 08/14/2020 - 12:00

Fast Facts

Nick Kempe investigates the Care Inspectorate’s attempts to assess the ongoing response in Scottish care homes to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Common Weal's Manifesto for a National Care Service

Primary Author or Creator

Common Weal Care Reform Group

Date Published

Wed, 01/27/2021 - 12:00

Fast Facts

In this Manifesto, released ahead of the Scottish Government’s Independent Review of Adult Social Care the group lays out the principles of care that should be met by any proposed blueprint for Care reform and will be followed up in due course with a comprehensive blueprint for an NCS that would