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Pharmacy Opening Hours during the Bank Holidays
Source: NHS England All service providers can view pharmacy opening times on Christmas Day 2019, Boxing Day 2019 and New Year’s Day 2020. This includes areas such as Herts Valley, East and North Herts, Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes and many more...
Helping Inspectors Address the Risk Factors of Closed Environments
Source: CQC The CQC are giving inspectors and their managers new supporting information about how to identify and respond to ‘closed cultures’ in services. When a service has a closed culture, people are more at risk of abuse and human rights breaches....
HSAB & HSCP Winter Newsletter
Source: Hertfordshire Safeguarding Adults Board & Hertfordshire Safeguarding Children Partnership The Hertfordshire Safeguarding Adults Board (HSAB) and Hertfordshire Safeguarding Children Partnership (HSCP) have collaborated to bring you this Winters...
CAS Alert: Risk of Harm to Babies and Children from Coin/Button Batteries in Hearing Aids and other hearing Devices
Source: Medicines & Healthcare products & Regulatory Agency (MHRA) HCPA would like to bring attention to the following message from the Central Alert System. We would urge our members to be aware that friends and families visiting service users may...
Beware of Agency Pitfalls
HCPA has been contacted by CQC to share this local information All providers need to be aware that there is at least one agency providing care staff who are potentially providing staff to services without carrying out recruitment checks. This is, therefore, a...
Award for Influenza Vaccination Uptake- Social Care Providers
Source: Public Health England (PHE) Public Health England would like to acknowledge the efforts of our care sector (Care Homes and Homecare providers) in encouraging flu vaccination of your staff. The NHS and PHE will acknowledge the number of staff vaccinated...
CAS Alert: Class 2 Medicines Recall
Source: Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) Summary Accord Healthcare is recalling all unexpired stock of the above products from pharmacies and wholesalers as a precautionary measure due to possible contamination with an impurity...