Jade Amis, HCPA's SMILE Engagement & Wellbeing Tutor, has recently completed a 24-week wheelchair based exercise course with residents at Elizabeth House in Welwyn Garden City. HCPA's SMILE offer exercise classes to everyone in Hertfordshire, including those who...

Improve your capacity assessments with Community Care Inform Adults’ new mental capacity and deprivation of liberty practice hub The process of assessing a person’s mental capacity is often misunderstood by social care practitioners as they seek to apply the...

HCC are working with both Herts CCGs to tender for a new care home bed model; Integrated Rehabilitation Beds. This will replace a variety of current models such as Intermediate Care, Enablement and Non-weight-bearing. The tender is available on...

The NHS is continuously trying to improve efficiencies to make sure money is being spent in the most appropriate places within the health and social care system. One area of focus is reducing waste, including medications in care homes. £50,000,000 of waste medicines...

HCPA can offer the services of a specialist safeguarding consultant to review your safeguarding adults from abuse and/or whistleblowing policies & procedures. This service is available with a discount for HCPA members. The review will give support and guidance...

Heather McAndrew has been HCPA's Lead Social Care Trusted Assessor working with the Lister Hospital, Stevenage and East and North Hertfordshire’s 92 care homes as part of the NHS Vanguard Programme. This ground-breaking service, designed to ease the discharge process...

Think Local Act Personal (TLAP) is running a survey that asks how much of a difference the Care Act has made in the experience of people with care and support needs, and carers. There have been many Care Act surveys, but this one will be the first that specifically...