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Care Home Impartial Assessor recruitment

The Care Home Impartial Assessor service offered by HCPA can help speed up the Discharge process for your Care Home by conducting the assessment on your behalf, to ensure that your Care Home is able to offer appropriate care for the service user, and enabling you to...

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Finance clinic: Help with your HCC finances

Do you find it difficult to get the right person to speak to in HCC payments? Are you battling with an outstanding financial issue on your HCC contract? Or do you have a contract query the HCC finance team can help you with? HCPA have made arrangements  with HCC to...

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Dementia Friendly Films

A Dementia-friendly film season is taking place in Hitchin between January – June 2017. The venues are specifically adapted to suit the needs of people who live with Dementia with brighter lighting, quieter sound levels and a screening interval. The aim of the film...

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Fake inspections – be aware

We have recently been alerted to a number of instances where unsolicited offers and leaflets about services offering care plan assessment or inspections from unknown companies have been sent to Care Homes within the Hertfordshire region. Please be cautious when...

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Last place training spaces: First come, first served

There are very few spaces left for the following training courses; make sure you book your place now to save disappointment. All dates must be attended. These courses and qualifications are only available to HCPA Members and are fully funded unless otherwise stated....

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Respiratory Infection outbreaks – important information

Following our recent email regarding a suspected outbreak of respiratory infections we have received a letter from the NHS East and North Hertfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group to be shared with all Care Homes in Hertfordshire containing important information...

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Benefits of Otago Exercise for Service Users

SMILE offer the Otago exercise programme which is designed specifically to prevent falls, delivered by qualified specialists. The programme consists of a set of leg muscle strengthening, balance retraining exercises (progressing in difficulty), and a walking plan....

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