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CQC – Window safety
Falls from windows often result in serious or fatal injuries, but this harm is avoidable. The CQC want to ensure that providers are keeping people under their care safe. CQC have been alerted to an incident where a care home resident deliberately attempted to bypass a...
Boost the Hertfordshire Directory with new listings
Help HCC turn the Hertfordshire Directory into the go-to-place to find groups, services and providers that can support residents to live life to the full. The Hertfordshire Directory is a key online tool to make it easier for people to find the help they need as soon...
Hertfordshire Advocacy – Do people you support need this service?
POhWER provides free, confidential, and independent advocacy to users of social care and community services across Hertfordshire. They work in partnership with organisations across the county to deliver advocacy to support those seldom heard, their families and...
Black Hole Funding – Adult Social Care Charging Reform Scrapped
On Monday, Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced a series of spending cuts, attributing them to a £21.9 billion government overspend hidden by the previous Conservative government. Among these cuts, Reeves declared that adult social care charging reforms would be...
New Beacon Domestic Abuse Support Hub (DASH)
HCC has just launched a new Beacon Domestic Abuse Support Hub which aims to make it easier for those who need it, to access Community Outreach Services in Hertfordshire. Members of the public and professionals who are not able to complete a domestic abuse risk...
Right Care, Right Person – reminder for escalation process
Care providers may be aware of the new initiative by the police in responding to welfare calls. Hertfordshire Constabulary is reminding partners of the escalation process in relation to calls to them about concerns for the welfare of individuals. At the start of...
Medicines reconciliation
‘Medicines reconciliation’ is the process of accurately listing a resident’s medicines. Following several recent medication errors, please can home managers and clinical leads remind their staff about the importance of ‘medicines reconciliation’ when residents come...