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CQC – Window safety
Falls from windows often result in serious or fatal injuries, but this harm is avoidable. The CQC want to ensure that providers are keeping people under their care safe. CQC have been alerted to an incident where a care home resident deliberately attempted to bypass a...
Would your organisation benefit from a Digital and Data Champion?
If you are already working with, or are moving over to Digital Systems such as digital care records or EMAR then Yes, it most definitely would. Your Champion will promote, engage and support others with the use of Digital Systems and Technology, share best practice,...
Contract Management Lead for Older People’s Residential/Nursing Services
HCC is refreshing how we work with care home providers. During 2023/24 they started to implement a new contract management framework which aims to work in partnership with care home providers under the principles of consistency and proportionality Providers should...
Tender for the Provision of a Community Based Therapeutic Support offer for Children and Young People
An advert for a tender has recently been published by the Integrated Health and Care Commissioning Team (IHCCT) for the Provision of a Community Based Therapeutic Support offer for Children and Young People • The tender can be viewed at the Supply Hertfordshire...
Boost the Hertfordshire Directory with new listings
Help HCC turn the Hertfordshire Directory into the go-to-place to find groups, services and providers that can support residents to live life to the full. The Hertfordshire Directory is a key online tool to make it easier for people to find the help they need as soon...
Hertfordshire Advocacy – Do people you support need this service?
POhWER provides free, confidential, and independent advocacy to users of social care and community services across Hertfordshire. They work in partnership with organisations across the county to deliver advocacy to support those seldom heard, their families and...
HCC Statement about recent and ongoing violence in several towns and cities across the country
The below statement has been provided in response to the recent and ongoing violence in several towns and cities across the country. Alex Woodman – Executive Director and Chief Fire Officer, Community Protection Hertfordshire County Council Dear colleagues, Yesterday...