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One, One, One or No, No, No!
John Shapter Dental SpecialistThe news is that NHS Direct who had won 11 of the 46 regional contracts for the new 111 service,...
Avoiding the Blame Game
Ginny Tyler Learning Disabilities SpecialistA colleague was proudly boasting that her service had a really low level of accidents and incidents since she dispatched...
Human beings fail
Quality Compliance Systems (QCS)The last few weeks have seen some incomprehensible tragedies, ones for which individuals seem destined to shoulder much of the...
Say it as it is
John Shapter Dental SpecialistAs part of my job, I read a lot of clinical records in order to write reports on possible negligence...
Confusion over top up fees widespread, survey reveals
alexqcs‘Postcode lottery’ for top-up fees in social care? A survey published last week by the charity Independent Age has exposed that...
Care Coordination- It’s a tough job but someone’s got to do it …
Rosie Robinson Domiciliary Care SpecialistDespite working in Homecare for a number of years, I still lack the answer to ‘What makes a Good Care...
Don`t get caught with your policies down!
John Shapter Dental SpecialistI keep seeing CQC inspection reports with non-compliance issues that have common factors. Yawn, Yawn, I know it`s a pain...
White Coat Syndrome – Hospital & GP Dress Code
John Shapter Dental SpecialistThere has recently been speculation in the press that patients wouldn`t trust a doctor in a t-shirt. This has sparked...
Harassment and bullying
Quality Compliance Systems (QCS)What it is Definitions of these phenomena have varied over the years as interested bodies and legislators have struggled to find...
A proportionate response to errors?
Ginny Tyler Learning Disabilities SpecialistI recently attended a seminar on the management of errors in medicines administration and got into an interesting debate with...
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