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Free Recruitment Service for members
We can help with your recruitment needs for FREE! We know one of the biggest challenges care providers face is recruitment, and we want to help. So, we’re offering our Herts Good Care Recruitment service for FREE to all HCPA members from 1st September 2017. This...
Employment Tribunal Landmark Ruling – Fee-Free Claims
We asked our Trusted Partner and employment law specialists, Peninsula, to share their thoughts on what a recent landmark ruling by the Supreme Court could mean for the care sector, and they kindly provided the information below for us to share with our members. Don’t...
Public consultations for NHS proposals
Herts Valleys and EN Herts CCG’s are inviting you to share your views on some of the proposals designed to make best use of the money available to the local NHS. The aim of the proposals are to help as many people as possible to live longer, healthier lives and avoid...
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...