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Looking for a new venue in Watford for a coffee?
Watford Mencap recently opened its new Cafe In The Library. It's a warm and inviting place, great for a trip out with service users, selling competitively priced foods and barista coffees all while enabling people with learning disabilities to develop their retail,...
Easy read DNACPR document for LD providers
At the last Learning Disability support provider forum in September we spoke about End of Life care and easy read documents to support conversation with your service users. To support this request we wanted to share the easy read DNACPR explanation sheet (download...
Fire Safety: Prevent Fire and Save Lives!
Do you know how to prevent a fire in your care home? Could you protect a vulnerable person and help prevent a fire in their own home? Recent tragic events at Grenfell Tower have put fire safety at the forefront of everyone’s minds, and Adult Care Services at HCC want...
Flu Outbreaks and FREE vaccination vouchers
Public Health England have created a very useful poster to help provide straightforward guidance on outbreaks of flu in care homes, including; when does it become classed as an outbreak, what to do when an outbreak occurs, and infection prevention control measures to...
Emergency Planning for Homecare in Winter
With winter just around the corner, now is the time to start considering your bad weather contingency plans. Our trusted partners, Towergate Insurance, have a shared a host of helpful tips below for homecare organisations to cover the basics and avoid being caught out...
CQC: Fees Consultation – have your say!
The CQC recently published a fees consultation document on their website, which you can find here, that is open for responses until midday on 18th January 2018. The document is about the fees CQC are proposing to charge to registered providers in 2018/19 and is your...
NICE guidance: Intermediate Care Including Reablement
In September this year, NICE published a guideline for Intermediate Care Including Reablement. In their September newsletter, NICE said that the guideline considers how person-centred care and support should be planned and delivered during the 4 service models of...