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Active Community Engagement: Find an ACE Club near you!
Green fingered ladies and gentlemen across Hertfordshire have been cultivating new friendships at ACE clubs around the county. The Active Community Engagement (ACE) project is run by HCPA’s SMILE team, with backing from NHS England. The project aims to reduce...
Social care for older people with multiple long-term conditions quality standard
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) have announced that the social care for older people with multiple long term conditions quality standard has now been published on the NICE website. All consultation comments were considered by the Quality...
Flu jabs for people with learning disabilities: Easy read information
It’s the time of the year that vulnerable adults and carers are encouraged to take up the offer of having their Fully Funded flu jabs. Working with Public Health England (East) in partnership with GP practices and Community Learning Disability Team Nurses, new...
Management of long-term conditions: Training from The Hospice of St Francis
All Things Long Term For multi-professional clinical staff who want to consider an holistic approach to the management of long-term conditions Thursday, 29th September 09:30 – 16:30 refreshments kindly provided Booking essential to education@stfrancis.org.uk – See...
Changes to the Electronic Prescription Service
We have been asked by the Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG's) to share the below information to care homes relating to the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) which is being used by the majority of GP practices in East & North Herts CCG. The information...
Age in the Workplace – Retain, Retrain, Recruit
HCPA is constantly finding new ways to support providers with severe staff recruitment issues. Most recently we have looked at some research and recommendations carried out by 'Business in the Community' for how to recruit, retrain and retain staff who are over 50...
Safeguarding Referrals Out of Hours
HCPA are very keen to ensure all our members understand this process. Anyone making a safeguarding referral needs to be aware that any email sent to the safeguarding team on adult.safeguarding@hertscc.gcsx.gov.uk will not be seen or actioned until the next working day...
