Fully Funded advice guides from Independent Age

Independent Age have a wide range of Fully Funded advice guides for older people, their families and carers. The guides cover key topics, such as; money, help at home, finding a care home, staying well in winter, dealing with depression and staying in control when...

Winter wise and your Care Home

We asked our HCPA Impartial Assessor, Heather McAndrew RGN  to give advice to Care Homes on managing winter Bugs. Please read her comments below and don’t hesitate to get in touch if you think Heather can help you. It’s that time of year where anyone and everyone is...

Five key steps to assessing capacity

The process of assessing a person’s mental capacity is often misunderstood by social care practitioners as they seek to apply the principles of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA) and the lessons from case law. But help is at hand with the launch of a set of resources...

Funded Nursing Care Review 2017

After their success in 2016 with Funded Nursing Care (FNC) increases, Mazars have been asked to do a further independent review for 2017. Mazars request that you remind your contacts about these events as this independent study is of key importance to the sector and...