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Posture Champions
Champion to meet the New Learning Disability Core Capabilities - Enabling & Posture for Adult Disability Services starts on the 28th September HCPA are pleased to announce a brand new training course - Enabling and Posture Champion aimed at Learning Disability...
NHS Healthy Start – Get help for staff to buy healthy food and milk
What is it? The scheme is designed to help families access fruit, vegetables, and milk, worth £220 a year. Families who use NHS Healthy Start can also access free vitamins. If you’re more than 10 weeks pregnant or have a child under four years old, and in receipt of...
Changes to provision of Safety needles in Hertfordshire
If you are a care home provider please ensure you read through this important information. In 2020 a decision was made to change the way that safety needles are accessed across Hertfordshire reflecting HSE and NHSE guidance. The implementation of this decision was...
Expired PCR kits – Don’t get caught out
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A care home who recently had a COVID outbreak were caught short when they went to use their PCR kits and found them all out of date.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...
Mask wearing by visitors
It has been brought to our attention by the Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Cell that some care homes are struggling with visitors and professionals not wearing face masks. Most COVID outbreaks are being brought into homes by visitors, so its important managers...
The rising cost of fuel
Our strategic partner Towergate Insurance have recently been in touch with us regarding the rising cost of fuel and have provided some tips on things you can do to help reduce these costs. Using vehicles for work during the fuel increase crisis Home care agency...
Temperature checks not required for visitors
Visitors to adult social care settings are no longer required to have a temperature check on arrival. The MHRA have advised there is little scientific evidence to support temperature screening as a reliable method for detection of COVID-19 or other febrile illness,...