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New Hospice Alert Cards
St Clare Hospice and Isabel Hospice are launching a joint initiative in January 2026: Hospice Alert Cards. These cards will help quickly identify patients under their specialist palliative care, ensuring better continuity across all care settings. Please help...
Lessons from recent HSE and Regulatory Prosecutions: Safety Fundamentals back in the Spotlight
Recent prosecutions brought by the Health & Safety Executive and other regulators have underlined that lapses in basic safety and oversight can have devastating consequences for people who draw on care in all types of service (residential or homecare) and...
Hertfordshire Suicide Prevention Strategy
The new Hertfordshire Suicide Prevention Strategy 2025–2030 is now live. Developed in collaboration with professionals and lived experience, it outlines a population-level approach to understanding, supporting, and preventing suicide. You can read the full...
A £1 million reminder – supervision saves lives
A care home has been fined over £1 million after a resident tragically chocked to death while eating alone. Their care plan required close supervision during meals, yet staff left them unattended for 20 minutes. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) confirmed this...
Legislation update
Prior to the Christmas recess period, two significant pieces of legislation received Royal Assent. On 18 December, the long-awaited Mental Health Bill became law. The new Act is designed to modernise a framework that has been largely unchanged since the 1980s, with a...
Urgent winter update for all providers
Winter has arrived, influenza cases are rising fast, and hospitals are under great pressure due to ongoing doctors’ industrial action. It is imperative that all care providers are mitigating risks of infection those they support and their staff, and avoid hospital...
Fire Safety Legislation Update
In August of this year the BSI defined what constitutes a responsible person when completing a fire risk assessment with their new standard, BS 8674. This voluntary standard sets an expectation of knowledge and experience that you should hold to competently...
