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Tender Opportunity: Provision of a Care Provider for a Nursing and Dementia Nursing Care Home in Wormley, Hertfordshire
Source: Hertfordshire County Council Description (Reference: HCC1810825) This tender opportunity is for the management of a 77 bedded Nursing Home with a 35 bed block of Nursing/ Dementia Nursing beds for use by Hertfordshire County Council. The provider will need to...
Managing Drugs and Alcohol Misuse at Work
Source: Health & Safety Executive (HSE) Employers have a legal duty to protect employees’ health, safety and welfare. Understanding the signs of drug and alcohol misuse (or abuse) will help you to manage health and safety risk in your workplace, develop a policy...
Hospital Pressures Over Holidays
Below is a letter from Adult Care Services Residential Commissioning, HCPA are continually working on your behalf and would like to add to this that behind the scenes please rest assured that HCC the CCG’s and HCPA are working hard with the hospital Trusts to try to...
CQC Interim Report: Review of restraint, prolonged seclusion and segregation
Source: CQC Today, CQC have published a report which gives the interim findings from their review of the use of restrictive interventions in places that provide care for people with mental health problems, a learning disability and/or autism. The...
Dementia Action Week | 20th – 26th of May, 2019
Dementia Action Week unites people, workplaces, schools and communities to take action and improve the lives of people living with dementia. In support of Dementia Action Week 2019, we are running a fully funded Tier 2 Approaches to Dementia course; the details...
An easy-read version for First Aid at Home is now available
A basic first aid guide for you, and the individuals you support, so you know what to do if someone hurts themselves. It is vital that people with learning disabilities who live alone or are in supported living without 24-hour care are able to understand some...
Programme to tackle over-medication in care homes launched
Source: LaingBuisson News NHS England has recruited medical and clinical staff as part of its £20m programme to help prevent care home residents being given too much medication. Residents are prescribed an average of seven medicines a day, with many...