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NEW Person Centred Framework available to download
End of life care is so important, and to help care practitioners improve their understanding of supporting service users during this time Skills for Health have created a training pack called ‘Working together: Improving End of Life Care through better...
Ombudsman report on MCA and DoLS
The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman recently published a report that focused on learning lessons from complaints regarding mental capacity and deprivation of liberty. Many of our partners and providers have found the report to be extremely useful and easy...
Adult Social Care Services 2014-17 report published
At the beginning of July this year the CQC published The State of Adult Social Care Services 2014-2017 report, which was a national report that presented findings from their adult social care inspections during the same time period. This is the first time a report of...
Recognising and Preventing Delirium
The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) recently published (in partnership with NICE) a new and very useful quick-guide for Care Home Managers about how to recognise the symptoms and prevent delirium. You may find this quick-guide useful to train your staff...
CHC, FNC and Continence Contributions
Are you involved in CHC, FNC or Continence Contributions? Join our informative, interactive and fully funded forum for Hertfordshire Nursing Home providers. There will be discussions on the latest updates on the assessment and provision of Continuing Health Care...
Person Centred Care
The Social Care Institute for Excellence have some very useful information available on their website about person centred care, how important it is, what it means to different people, and ways to deliver it. For more information visit their page here and if you’re...
Hertfordshire Care Awards – 2 weeks left to nominate!
The Hertfordshire Care Awards nominations have been rolling in thick and fast this year, but we know there are even more to be had and we need your help... Do you know innovative and compassionate individuals, teams or leaders working in the Hertfordshire care sector?...