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A cautionary tale – Care home provider fined after child crushed by falling tree

03/02/2023 | law, National

A company has been fined £400,000 after an 8-year-old girl suffered serious crush injuries when a tree fell on her. The girl was out for an evening jog with her father. As she was running on a pavement outside the entrance to the care home, a lime tree fell on her,...

Hot water bottles

03/02/2023 | law, National

There have been quite a few recent articles in the press over the safe use of hot water bottles, given their increasing popularity. We would like to take this opportunity to remind Care Providers about safe usage of these devices. Please remember: Capacity assessment...

CQC – Services for people with a learning disability and autistic people

03/02/2023 | law, National

The CQC have put together some key links to good practice guidance and information for services who support people with a learning disability and/or autistic people. These have been put together as the CQC is still finding examples of poor and unsafe care and support...

NHS Capacity Tracker Update

03/02/2023 | law, National

All CQC regulated services are now required by the Department of Health and Social Care to update the NHS Capacity Tracker system. Please ensure your service updates regularly to avoid potential fines. This data is vital and will provide the local authority as well...

Environments for Ageing and Dementia Design Assessment Tool (EADDAT) Launches

03/02/2023 | law, National

Experts from the University of Stirling have created a new tool to support families, businesses, and professionals to make homes, premises, and public places more accessible to an ageing population and those living with dementia. Lesley Palmer, Chief Architect at...

Expired PCR kits – Don’t get caught out

03/02/2023 | law, National

A message to all care homes to please check your expiry dates on you PCR kits as COVID has unfortunately not gone away. A care home who recently had a COVID outbreak were caught short when they went to use their PCR kits and found them all out of date. This caused a...