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Top tips for keeping older people hydrated
March 29, 2017
National Food and Hydration Week aims to raise the importance of getting these elements right for all of us. With the help of our friends and supporters at Unilever…
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Training a Receptionist to become a Health Care Assistant?
March 29, 2017
Health Care Assistants (HCAs) and Infection Control GP practices have in the past and are continuing into the future to train willing and enthusiastic receptionists to become Health Care Assistants.…
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A (small) proposed change to how we make best interests decisions
March 29, 2017
I’ve written already about the proposed new Liberty Protection Safeguards. These will make life a bit easier for providers, by making it the responsibility of the commissioners of services, or…
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Effects of delayed hospital discharges
March 29, 2017
There is a crisis in hospitals throughout which is recognised, but the knock-on effects of this are increasingly harmful to our health services. The NHS Scotland information services division publishes…
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Celebrating the Achievements of People with Learning Disabilities in Oxfordshire
March 23, 2017
We have been given some money from the Big Lottery Fund to celebrate the 18th birthday of our charity, My Life My Choice, this year. We will use the…
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Active living, healthy ageing
March 22, 2017
Health researchers have in recent years highlighted the fact that inactivity is a major threat to public health. Being inactive increases our risk of developing cardiovascular disease, mental health problems,…
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DoLS update: Notifying Coroners
March 22, 2017
Removal of the duty to notify coroners if someone dies when subject to a DoLS authorisation Many of us are really pleased to learn that the coroner will no longer…
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Proposed changes to the Mental Capacity Act and DoLS: what do they mean to us?
March 22, 2017
The Law Commission has published its ‘draft Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill’, together with a lucid but long report explaining how they reached their proposals. There are two main themes to…
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