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New NICE Initiative Launched: Good Community Medicines Support
Source: NICE The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has worked with a number of partner organisations, including Skills for Care, to launch a new initiative to encourage better medicines support for people who are receiving social care services...
New NICE / SCIE Quick Guide on Giving Medicines Covertly
A quick guide for care home managers and home care managers providing medicines support Adults should not be given medicines covertly unless they have been assessed as lacking the mental capacity to make decisions about their health or medicines. The quick...
Summer Guidance for People Living with Learning Disabilities
Source: Adult Care Services, Hertfordshire County Council With Europe facing hotter Summers amid several hot weather warnings, there poses a credible heat-related illness risks to everyone. In addition to being advised to stay out of the sun during the...
Ensuring Good Healthcare for People Living with Learning Disabilities
Source: Adult Care Services Commissioning Support Team | Hertfordshire County Council Assisting professionals in recognising their role in reducing health inequalities and skills to make it happen Evidence shows that people with learning disabilities die...
Mental Health Act Code of Practice ‘not being used as intended’
Source: CQC The CQC’s review of the Mental Health Act Code of practice has found that the Code is still not being used as intended. The CQC looked for the useful things that services have found when they use the guidance as well as the barriers. They also...
Smiling Matters: Oral Health Care in Care Homes
Source: CQC CQC have shared what they found from their review of oral health care in care homes across England, called 'Smiling Matters?' The report reveals an extensive lack of awareness of NICE guidelines. It finds that many residents are not supported to maintain...
Protecting Yourself From Scams
Scam Awareness Roadshows Source: Hertfordshire County Council Scam Awareness Roadshows are taking place in libraries across Hertfordshire in June and July. The roadshows are opportunities to learn more about doorstep, phone, and postal criminal cons and cheats as well...