Compassion in Care News

The company Sussex Healthcare which we exposed with Private Eye magazine in November 2015 regarding registering new homes to the same old owners.
See below links to our earlier work on this
http://www.compassionincare.com/node/229
http://www.compassionincare.com/node/309
http://www.compassionincare.com/node/314

Read our response to Philip Lea MPs comments on the selfish society http://compassionincare.com/node/349

Yesterday morning I spoke on BBC Radio Kent on the issue of CCTV, we have a very clear stance on this subject based on the evidence. I appeared with Jayne Connery who campaigns for CCTV. Whilst unaware of this at the time, Jayne Connery is sponsored by Philip Scott who runs Zest care homes as well as Care Protect CCTV. Philip Scott was the man in charge of Southern Cross and Priory care homes, many of which are featured in our care home reports, Tales of the Un-inspected as well as numerous Private Eye articles.

Read The Letters here http://compassionincare.com/node/345

EXTRACT
..." You state that “The Government is committed to ensuring that Whistle-blowers are supported and protected” I would pass that message to the 47 Whistle-blowers who contacted CQC with concerns and had their names given by CQC to their employers, only it would be adding insult to injury.

13th September 2017

To Andrea Sutcliffe
Chief Inspector of Adult Social Care
Care Quality Commission

Dear Ms Sutcliffe,
In response to your letter of September 13th 2017,
Firstly I point out again that you already have all the information on the 47 Whistle-blowers who contacted you with their concerns and whose names you passed to their employers and suggest you check your own records as this would provide you with the information you need.

For the urgent attention of;
Members of the Health Select Committee

12th September 2017

Dear Mr Yardley,
Could you ensure this letter and attached evidence is brought to the attention of all committee members as a matter of urgency.
I have written ten letters to the Secretary of State for Health since March, I have received no response or acknowledgment to any of these letters.

See our response to the latest letter from Andrea Sutcliffe Chief Inspector Adult Social CQC, http://www.compassionincare.com/node/341

See this weeks issue of Private Eye page 39, regarding what we told CQC and Health Department BEFORE people were harmed.

The HC1 acquisition of a number of BUPA care homes will make HC1 the largest Care Home chain. We seem to be the only ones who remember the Southern Cross care home scandal, that could be because we had gone into over 60 Southern Cross homes undercover and witnessed first hand the horrific conditions endured by vulnerable people, staffing levels that made giving even basic care impossible. Our Tales of the Un-inspected on these homes make grim reading.. When Southern Cross had stripped all assets and made enough profits and fled before the company finally went bust.

Our new report detailing the abysmal failures of the CQC and what Jeremy Hunt has ignored http://compassionincare.com/node/337