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Challenging Mental Ill Health Stigma – Change starts with us!
August 1, 2019
Mental ill health can happen to anyone, it doesn’t discriminate and it’s not like a visible illness. The issue of mental health and wellbeing has long been a concern…
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Is the CQC Fit for Purpose in Learning Disability Services?
July 30, 2019
In our regular guest opinion piece from My Life My Choice, they ask if the CQC is Fit for Purpose. Recently there has been a lot of criticism…
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Liberty Protection Safeguards: Dates for your diary!
July 29, 2019
Caroline Dinenage, Minister for Care at the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has published an open letter in which she outlines the progress so far with LPS…
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Gender Identity and the Impact of Language
July 29, 2019
Outside of school English classes: how much do you know about pronouns? How important would you say they are to you? How important do you think they are for…
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Regulatory Inspections
July 29, 2019
I’m not a fan of marmite, the classic slogan of either ‘you love it or hate it’ springs straight to mind and I know what camp I am in.…
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Third party subject access requests (SARs) under the GDPR & the Data Protection Act 2018 to GPs
July 29, 2019
Two months on from the introduction of the 2019-20 GMS contract with its sweeping changes and major digital development plans for future contractual requirements, a huge amount of energy remains…
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Loneliness in Older Men in Care Homes
June 25, 2019
Some of the statistics on loneliness in older people are shocking and not just for those living alone in the community. Being lonely can seriously affect the mental, emotional…
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Listening through the silence
June 25, 2019
I like my mother feel uncomfortable in the silence. We fill in every perceived gap, crevis and tiny nook with a ‘filler’ related or not to the previous conversation. My…
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