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DBS Checks: Tips on how to fast track your application
How to spot common but easily-correctable mistakes that often cause delays or rejections of DBS checks Full Five-year Address History At the top of the list of the most common reasons for delayed or rejected DBS checks are errors with address history. Ensure...
React To Moisture- Moisture Damage
Identifying, preventing, and managing moisture lesions for Care Homes and Other Healthcare Providers ‘React To’ is a series of training resources developed by healthcare professionals. Although aimed at care home staff, these resources are also relevant to...
NICE Guidance in Social Care: July 2019
Advice on giving medicines covertly, dementia, depression in children and young people, and hearing loss This NICE quick guide will be an invaluable reference resource for care home managers and home care managers as it summarises the key actions that need to...
Did you get free flu vaccinations for your staff last year?
Source: Public Health England NHS England now offers the flu vaccine to Social Care and Hospice workers through GPs and community pharmacies, to complement occupational health programmes provided by employers, to help increase vaccine uptake. NHS England would...
New NICE Initiative Launched: Good Community Medicines Support
Source: NICE The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has worked with a number of partner organisations, including Skills for Care, to launch a new initiative to encourage better medicines support for people who are receiving social care services...
New NICE / SCIE Quick Guide on Giving Medicines Covertly
A quick guide for care home managers and home care managers providing medicines support Adults should not be given medicines covertly unless they have been assessed as lacking the mental capacity to make decisions about their health or medicines. The quick...
Summer Guidance for People Living with Learning Disabilities
Source: Adult Care Services, Hertfordshire County Council With Europe facing hotter Summers amid several hot weather warnings, there poses a credible heat-related illness risks to everyone. In addition to being advised to stay out of the sun during the...