Scottish care services receive top marks in recent report
13:53 - 06/06/2010
Scottish care services receive top ma...
The Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care have recently published a report concluding that the majority of care services in Scotland are providing a good standard of care for their service users.
The report, entitled ‘Making the Grade?’, analysed over 11,000 inspections conducted between April 2008 and March 2009, in order to provide a benchmark for the quality of care provision in Scotland. This period represents the first year of the new grading scheme, which awards services a grade of 1-6 for various different aspects of care, known as “quality themes”, including support, information and environment, staffing and leadership.
Results indicate that 80% of all Scottish care services were achieving grades 4-6 in all quality themes, with around a quarter of services achieving grades 5 and 6 across the board. An impressive 98% of services are recorded as scoring grades 3-6, and only a very small minority were shown to perform below acceptable standards.
In the childcare sector, the Care Commission report that 98% of services achieved grades of 3 or higher for the standard of care and support that they offer. Almost 90% of children’s care services scored 4-6 in all quality themes, while a third of childminding services achieved the very best grades of 5 and 6.
Ronnie Hill, Director of the Care Commission, was pleased with the results but commented: “Our approach to scrutiny is more proportionate, risk-based and targeted than ever and we continue to be tough on poor performance. That includes working to improve services with poor grades.”
Ronnie believes that the report will act as a catalyst for continued service improvement and better outcomes in the future: “We hope this first full year report will prove useful information for all.”
Operations Director, Perry Leeks, says: “It’s always great to see that health and social care services are achieving positive results in quality assessments, and this is great news for the care sector in Scotland. As suggested above, though, it is important that services do not get complacent and use these types of reports as motivation for continual improvement.
“We provide a whole suite of health and social care courses, including training programmes in the key subjects such as Infection Control, Handling and Administration of Medicines, Moving and Handling of People, Dementia Awareness and Health and Safety for Carers. Thorough and regular training is central to delivering good quality care and maintaining high standards.”
For further information on any of our care sector training courses, please contact us today.
The report, entitled ‘Making the Grade?’, analysed over 11,000 inspections conducted between April 2008 and March 2009, in order to provide a benchmark for the quality of care provision in Scotland. This period represents the first year of the new grading scheme, which awards services a grade of 1-6 for various different aspects of care, known as “quality themes”, including support, information and environment, staffing and leadership.
Results indicate that 80% of all Scottish care services were achieving grades 4-6 in all quality themes, with around a quarter of services achieving grades 5 and 6 across the board. An impressive 98% of services are recorded as scoring grades 3-6, and only a very small minority were shown to perform below acceptable standards.
In the childcare sector, the Care Commission report that 98% of services achieved grades of 3 or higher for the standard of care and support that they offer. Almost 90% of children’s care services scored 4-6 in all quality themes, while a third of childminding services achieved the very best grades of 5 and 6.
Ronnie Hill, Director of the Care Commission, was pleased with the results but commented: “Our approach to scrutiny is more proportionate, risk-based and targeted than ever and we continue to be tough on poor performance. That includes working to improve services with poor grades.”
Ronnie believes that the report will act as a catalyst for continued service improvement and better outcomes in the future: “We hope this first full year report will prove useful information for all.”
Operations Director, Perry Leeks, says: “It’s always great to see that health and social care services are achieving positive results in quality assessments, and this is great news for the care sector in Scotland. As suggested above, though, it is important that services do not get complacent and use these types of reports as motivation for continual improvement.
“We provide a whole suite of health and social care courses, including training programmes in the key subjects such as Infection Control, Handling and Administration of Medicines, Moving and Handling of People, Dementia Awareness and Health and Safety for Carers. Thorough and regular training is central to delivering good quality care and maintaining high standards.”
For further information on any of our care sector training courses, please contact us today.
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