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Data Breaches: How secure is your data?
Secure your data and protect against unlawful access with the assistance of our fully-funded NHS-Mail service! A former customer services officer at Stockport Homes Limited (SHL) has been found guilty of unlawfully accessing personal data without a legitimate...
read moreReact To Red – Moisture Damage
Identifying, preventing, and managing moisture lesions for Care Homes and Other Healthcare Providers ‘React To’ is a series of training resources developed by healthcare professionals. Although aimed at care home staff, these resources are also relevant to...
read moreNICE Guidance in Social Care- July 2019
Advice on giving medicines covertly, dementia, depression in children and young people, and hearing loss This NICE quick guide will be an invaluable reference resource for care home managers and home care managers as it summarises the key actions that need to...
read moreThe National Minimum Data Set for Social Care (NMDS-SC) is changing
Skills for Care are making changes to the NMDS-SC as it will be replaced by the Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set. If you have an NMDS account, it will be closed on the 18th July 2019 at 5.30 p.m but don’t panic as all of your data will be migrated to the new...
read moreDid you get free flu vaccinations for your staff last year?
Source: Public Health England NHS England now offers the flu vaccine to Social Care and Hospice workers through GPs and community pharmacies, to complement occupational health programmes provided by employers, to help increase vaccine uptake. NHS England would...
read moreNew NICE Initiative Launched – Good Community Medicines Support
Source: NICE The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has worked with a number of partner organisations, including Skills for Care, to launch a new initiative to encourage better medicines support for people who are receiving social care services...
read moreNew NICE / SCIE Quick Guide- Giving Medicines Covertly
A quick guide for care home managers and home care managers providing medicines support Adults should not be given medicines covertly unless they have been assessed as lacking the mental capacity to make decisions about their health or medicines. The quick...
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