As I type Joanna is labelling and taping up a large number of storage boxes shortly to wend their way home for their remaining 6 years of life in some storage facility. They are samples of Family and “Integrated Social Welfare Law” files we have been giving the once over for a Peer Review nervous […]
Regulars to this place and also our training events will know of my cynicism regarding Peer Review representations. These are not an appeal in any traditional sense involving paper only objections which are considered by the original reviewer and a senior panel member. To date out of the 10 or so we have prepared or […]
The full set of timescales for “Quality Assessment Roll Out” (Peer Review to you and I) to facilitate Best Value Tendering (BVT) and Preferred Supplier have now been announced. Best off are Social Welfare and Family providers in Harrow – they seemingly have until November 2009, at the earliest, to get PR standards right. Less […]
Further to this story the revised Mental Health “Improving your Quality” Guide is now published. The changes, from an extremely quick read, relate to the frequency of visits to clients anticipated by the reviewers. Anything which looks like establishing firm benchmarks e.g. the controversial “5 visits” has been made considerably more vague. As ever comments […]
It is a particular pleasure to be able to bring you news of another Competent Plus Criminal Peer Review result. Not only is this an antidote for some of the more depressing news of the last week or so, but it is pleasing to us as the firm in question have now been clients of […]
I am doing some Peer Review training today for a smallish firm. We had to cancel the last planned day due to pressure of work at their end consequently it is some time since I did the review of their 20 files. Having reviewed my notes of this assessment it is startling how similar the […]
Way back when, I helped write my first set of (unsuccessful) representations regarding a Peer Review failure. I thought at the time this was a competent firm, getting good results for clients, which had been wrongly graded. Yesterday the Senior Partner rang me to tell me that the latest result was Category 2 “Competence Plus”. […]
In the course of doing the job described below I idly glance at the “Independent Peer Reviewers Conflict of Interest Form” to check out new addittions to the panel. At the third row on the second page of the list I come across a new reviewer called “Dummy Data”. I will be advising the firm […]
Andy is in the office with me today looking at another live PR sample. Rather than another post about burnishing this sample brings the issue of initial instruction pro formas to mind. Now this is a long running, if now something of a staged, debate at JRS. For those who have not heard me talk […]
I have just spoken with someone with a current “below competence” rating about becoming Peer Reviewer (having been personally canvassed by the LSC both before, and now despite, this finding). The conversation veered into controversial territory around the question – does becoming a reviewer represent “collaboration” with the enemy? At one time, as a professional […]