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Manual Handling – have you considered the risk?
March 15, 2017
Introduction Accidents from poor manual handling techniques is attributed to around 30% of all accidents in the UK and approximately 11% of all manual handling accidents in the UK…
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A preventive approach to homelessness
March 15, 2017
The Government last year announced a program to reduce the problem of homelessness, recognising this as a major issue for families and individuals caught up in the problem. It was…
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Nutrition and Hydration Week 2017: 13th – 19th March
March 10, 2017
It’s Nutrition and Hydration week again! The week aims to highlight, promote and celebrate improvements in the provision of nutrition and hydration locally, nationally and globally. In the week, many…
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The Apprenticeship Levy
March 9, 2017
In May 2014 the Government produced a BIS Report on Employer Investment in Apprenticeships in the Health Sector and reported that there were 52,000 apprentices commencing work based training…
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What you need to know about RIDDOR!
March 9, 2017
Introduction As a social care provider part of your role as a manager will be to report accidents, incidents and near-misses. You may use a paper-based system or an online…
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Growing Pains
March 9, 2017
My daughter comes to me often. A pain in her side, around her knees. Every bone imaginable has some kind of pain at some point! I have a standard answer…
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An extra £2 billion for Social Care – what does it mean?
March 9, 2017
You will have no doubt all seen the fantastic news in yesterday’s budget. I could not have imagined that the huge injection of money into our sector would be…
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The ageing dental population
March 8, 2017
We are now at a stage where people over the age of sixty outnumber those under sixteen. The numbers of eighty-five-year-olds are predicted to double in the next ten…
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