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What is your pain behaviour? Did you realise that we have different ways of expressing our pain dependent on several factors including our personality, previous experience and learned behaviours? Add…

A care home has been fined £20,000 for health and safety failings which led to the death of a vulnerable 90 year old man. The owner of the Residential Home…

World Parkinson’s Day occurs every year on 11 April to raise awareness of Parkinson’s disease.  As a nurse whose father had Parkinson’s, I have a strong personal interest in this…

On Monday the 20th March 2023, the CQC released a report of findings following the 2019 Smiling Matters campaign for care homes. The Smiling Matters campaign was introduced to gain…

World Oral Health Day started in 2007 with the purpose of highlighting the importance of good oral health for everyone throughout the world. If you do not look after your…

What is norovirus? Norovirus is highly infectious and causes vomiting (often projectile), watery diarrhoea and a fever. It is easily transmitted through contact with infected individuals, contaminated surfaces or consumption…

Megan Parker, Trainee Solicitor at Napthens, on what care providers need to know about the £15m grant aimed at giving the social care sector a boost. In February of last…