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Care Provider fined for failing to be open about serious health decline
An adult social care provider has been ordered to pay £4,621 after admitting it did not tell the appropriate person that a resident’s health was worsening. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) prosecuted the provider for not informing the resident’s family about a...
Avoiding delays in Respiratory Outbreak Support
Throughout the winter period Commisceo Primary Care Services continued to be commissioned by the ICB to support local care homes with respiratory/flu swabbing and provision of antiviral treatments where an outbreak was suspected. However, there have been several...
Update: Reasonable Adjustment Digital Flags (RADF)
There has been a significant national change to how reasonable adjustments are recorded and shared across health and social care services. From December 2025, a new Information Standards Notice (ISN) makes it mandatory for all NHS and publicly funded...
Policy Briefing: Interoperability in Adult Social Care – What Providers Need to Know?
Interoperability – the ability for different systems to securely share and use information – is becoming a central expectation in national health and care policy. This latest policy briefing outlines how digital change is accelerating and what it means for adult...
Podcast Alert: Getting International Dysphagia Diet Standardisation Initiative (IDDSI) Compliance Right with apetito
Last month award-winning care home meals provider and HCPA strategic partner, apetito was invited to join an episode of the Care Home Management podcast, hosted by magazine editor Ailsa Colquhoun, to discuss how care homes can successfully comply with the...
Volunteers with a learning disability wanted to help improve local GP surgeries
The Purple Star Steering Committee is looking for more volunteer individuals with a learning disability to join. They would like volunteers to come and join four times a year to give their opinions about doctor’s surgeries. If care providers are supporting...
Capacity Tracker CareFind Home Care service- coming soon!
The Capacity Tracker CareFind Home Care service is coming soon. If you are a home care provider next time you go into Capacity Tracker to update your data add your profile data so that your home care organisation will appear on the CareFind system. CareFind...