Whilst the Care Act is introducing laudable provisions
such as the duty of candour and the fit and proper persons test for directors,
it is also eradicating a number of well established principles. We are set to
lose the following obligations on health care providers:
- informing residents of complaints procedures
- offering a choice of food
- a requirement to plan for and to have in place
emergency procedures
This is all done in the name of 'light-touch' regulation.
Unnecessary bureaucracy is indeed a costly burden, but these changes would
suggest a degrading of the standards in care.
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