Press Release
The Human Rights of Older People in Healthcare - clarification
15 August 2007
Please note the following as a point of clarification:
The Joint Committee on Human Rights report The Human Rights of Older People in Healthcare references CSCI's State of Social Care Report 2005-6 (January 2007) and correctly points to the following in point 14 (page nine):
"..... since the introduction of the National Minimum Standards in 2002-3, the percentage of social care services meeting the standards for privacy and dignity has increased from 82% to 91%. CSCI also reports that residential services for older people met 79% of the National Minimum Standards in 2006, compared with 59% in 2003."
However, the Joint Committee's press notice (Older People's Rights Not Respected in Hospitals and Care Homes, Wednesday 15 August) states that the percentage of residential care services meeting the National Minimum Standards (NMS) for privacy and dignity for older people was 79% in 2006. Subsequent press coverage has quoted this figure. Please note that this is not in fact the case. As above, the figure is in fact 91%. The press notice incorrectly adopts the overall NMS percentage, rather than specifically the figure for dignity and privacy.
The latest figures for 2006-7, to be published next year in our next State of Social Care report in January 2008, indicate that as CSCI continues to encourage services to improve and stamp out bad practice, the percentage of those meeting NMS for dignity and privacy has increased again for 2006-7.
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