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Community Pharmacy Opening times Christmas and New Year
Keep prepared over the holidays With Christmas around the corner and the New Year fast approaching, it can be easy to get caught up in the hustle and bustle of end-of-the-year preparations. To ensure staying well over the holiday period, your staff can support service...
It’s time to boogie!
You are invited to Hand in Hands Disco party Party time is upon us! We have been asked to share this by one of our members at Hand in Hands. So why not join Hand in Hands and bring along any clients you support if you are able to. Take a look at the flyer attached for...
A family and carers quick guide for people with dementia
Source: NICE.org This quick guide is designed to get the right information to people working in the health and social care sector to pass on to families. Planning for the here and now After a diagnosis, the person should be directed to the services that can give them...
Preventing Influenza: Infection Management
View our top tips! HCPA is proud to present the Influenza Management Campaign. Different components of the campaign address managing an outbreak, vaccinations and flu myths and flu facts! Below are some of the top tips for influenza prevention and infection control....
A guide to the EU Settlement Scheme pilot
Source: The Home Office Are you currently employing people from the EU who may need to apply for UK settlement? If so, this information is extremely important and should be shared with staff immediately; the time for this pilot is really tight as it closes on 21st...
New leaflets to support those new to social care
Source: NHS ‘NHS Digital’ have produced a new guide containing information to help those who may need social care, now or in the future, to understand options available to them and how to access services. Local authorities, NHS organisations and care providers can...
Sleep-in shifts and the minimum wage
A revised guidance from the government “Sleep-in” shifts in some sectors including, but not only, the care sector, staff are required to stay at or near their workplace on the basis that they are expected to sleep for all or most of the period, but may be woken when...