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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...
HCPA Senior Management Team would like to offer to make visits to our providers who are happy to chat
Across our members, brilliant work happens every day. We know the pressures you face and the dedication you bring, but we don’t always get to hear the stories behind it. That is why our senior managers want to come to you. Why a visit? Every service is different, and...
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...