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Dignity and Respect
April 8, 2016
Quality, Esteem and Respect = Dignity The other week I blogged about dignity and meeting everyone’s basic human rights. As I looked further into this topic I realised there is…
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Diets rich in vitamin C – More than just for the common cold?
April 7, 2016
As we age our eyesight deteriorates. Of people aged 75 and over, one in five are living with sight loss, and this is a problem that will continue to increase…
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Help to navigate health care
April 6, 2016
Hospitals and other health providers have launched a series of videos and pamphlets to help people with learning disability that need to attend appointments, undergo screening or who are affected…
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We could do better on salt
April 3, 2016
With such a strong media focus on sugars recently, we may forget there are other nutrients that need to be reduced, because consuming too much has adverse health effects. What…
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Gender Pay Gap Regulations
April 1, 2016
Under the current ‘Think. Act. Report.’ scheme there is no mandatory obligation for companies to publish their gender pay gap and only seven companies have voluntarily published their data. Section…
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Waiting for the Paragons
March 31, 2016
In our recent article we talked about direct support staff being at the centre of successfully delivering the outcomes of the Social Service and Wellbeing Act 2014. This raised a…
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Commissioning integrated health and social care
March 30, 2016
New integrated Health and social care boards come into operation on 1st April in Scotland. The aim is to provide preventive, joined up services centred on the needs of local…
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Coughs, sneezes and other nasties
March 29, 2016
How easy is it to involve service users in basic infection control? I’m on the train again, which seems to be a theme for writing these blog posts and today…
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