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Handling diabetes in the workplace
June 19, 2017
There are around 4.5 million people living with diabetes in the UK and approximately 700 diagnoses per day, the equivalent of one person every two minutes. In the last…
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Are you in control of window restrictors?
June 16, 2017
Introduction As summer fast approaches, and the temperature rises, having air to a room is one way of cooling the temperature in any health and social care home. Care homes…
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Thirsty Thursday (and Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday…)
June 16, 2017
Adequate hydration is necessary for survival. Every cell, tissue and organ requires water to function. However ensuring adequate hydration can be a particularly challenging area in the care of service…
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Who is who?
June 16, 2017
Proposed changes to CQC Registration: Making it clearer who should be registered in Consultation 2 Murder Mystery “It’s definitely her. She definitely did it!” I peer over my glass of…
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Care Quality Commission – Changes to your inspection process
June 14, 2017
The CQC have released the results of their first consultation on the ‘next phase of regulation’. This consultation took place between December 2016 and February 2017. They were expecting to…
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Community support for mental health
June 9, 2017
The Mental Welfare Commission(Scotland) carried out a 2016 survey of the opinions of people with mental health problems being supported in the community. People were in general satisfied with the…
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Hope and Despair
June 9, 2017
Hope: we celebrate excellent practice This has to be my first point. I know how demoralising it is for an empowering provider, working with people and families so creatively, to…
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Should the National Minimum Wage be payable when employees are carrying out sleep-ins?
June 9, 2017
Overview Following the conjoined cases of Focus Care Industry v Roberts; Frudd v The Partington Group; Royal Mencap Society v Tomlinson-Blake, the EAT was required to determine whether or not…
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