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About: Community Services / Living Well (Care at Home)

(as a service user),

I am allocated personal care twice a day. Before this new IT system came into plan my morning visits I was getting the same carer, who lives near me, almost daily. This was great because this carer was experienced and was picking up on things that was going wrong for example me not drying myself properly. Since the new IT system became live I’ve had multiple carers, my skin has broken down etc. To be honest the new IT system has been diabolical. In my case notes it states that I will not accept a male carer, due to me being a young single female, it’s not very nice to strip off to have a shower in front of a male carer. Tonight in walked a female carer and a male carer. Yes, I do have a male GP but he doesn’t see my personal bits. Surely service users have rights.  The other night I received my tuck visit at 5:50pm, I believe tuck visits don’t start until 7pm  If I was going to my bed at 5:50pm and my morning visit the next day would be at 8am, I would be stuck in my bed for 14 hours.  When I phoned to complain I was met by “it’s all due to the new IT system”, which I do not accept, as all IT systems work perfectly until admin staff try to override the IT system.  As I work in IT I know IT systems only work as good as the people who input the information.

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Response from Gordon Hunter, Development Coach Care at Home, Living Well Care, Perth & Kinross Health & Social Care Partnership nearly 2 years ago
Gordon Hunter
Development Coach Care at Home, Living Well Care,
Perth & Kinross Health & Social Care Partnership
Submitted on 30/10/2023 at 09:57
Published on Care Opinion at 10:08


Thank you for getting in touch. I am sorry to hear your situations and I can understand the frustrations you mention about maintaining your dignity. I was wondering if ( and only if you want to) you might like to get in touch with me directly so I can examine your concerns in greater detail and see if I can help address them.

I do hope you can call or email me as I have a concerns that my service Living Well Care does not actually have any young single females on our service, nor have we changed systems recently, so I need to get you to the right people for a suitable response. I assure you I will keep ownership of your concern until we take this forward so please get in touch

In the meantime thank you for voicing your concerns as we can only improve if we know what people are experiencing

Gordon Hunter

ghunter@pkc.gov.uk 07795120650

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