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Abi Spence
Registration and Inspection SpecialistAbi has worked for and with Government agencies relevant to social care for the past 12+ years. Primarily with the Department of Health, Social Services Inspectorate, Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI) and since its inception the Care Quality Commission (CQC). As part of this long involvement Abi has developed a wide and detailed understanding of relevant issues and has worked closely with stakeholders such as people that use services, carers, providers, local government, the Department of Health, Ofsted and the Audit Commission. Read more
Posts by Abi Spence:
Celebrating community support for people with a learning disability, a mental health need and autistic people
Abi Spence Registration and Inspection SpecialistKnowledge in action I’m definitely a visual person when it comes to learning. Those words on a paper mean so much...
Who’s Caring for the Carers? Putting your mental health first
Abi Spence Registration and Inspection SpecialistWorld Mental Health Day On the 10th October the World Health Organization and other mental health organisations bring our focus to...
Top tips to avoid the petrol pumps: Abi Spence provides some fuel for thought
Abi Spence Registration and Inspection SpecialistAbi Spence shares some top tips to avoid petrol pumps during the fuel crisis. Queues I’m sitting in a queue not far...
New Caldicott Guardian Guidance explained
Abi Spence Registration and Inspection SpecialistAbi Spence unravels new guidance that requires health and social care organisations to appoint a Caldicott Guardian. You can download...
Mandatory and Core Training: What social care providers need to know
Abi Spence Registration and Inspection SpecialistLearning all over again I’ve started taking pottery lessons again. It’s a beginners’ course, without the wheel. I felt like I...
Creating hope through action (World Suicide Prevention Day)
Abi Spence Registration and Inspection SpecialistToday, (10 September) is World Suicide Prevention Day. Abi Spence explains why it is always good for all those working...
Why every action counts in social care
Abi Spence Registration and Inspection SpecialistAbi Spence on how social care is leading the way in infection prevention and control. Keeping it up ‘Hand gel’, I say,...
Cyber CQC – Shading your information to show the quality of your service
Abi Spence Registration and Inspection SpecialistPromises Promises! As we leaf through the CQC Strategy From 2021, we see a technological rebirth for the regulator; full of promises we...
Respond to CQC’s Public Feedback on CQC’s Assessment Frameworks: Safety in Services
Abi Spence Registration and Inspection SpecialistWhat is it about? CQC have launched a survey to ask people what a safe service feels like to them. This...
CQC Strategy…did you catch it?
Abi Spence Registration and Inspection SpecialistCatch up TV If you didn’t catch the Care Quality Commission’s webinar on the launch of the CQC strategy 2021… don’t...
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