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The National Care Standards in Scotland are a set of indicators for the quality of regulated care services. They were devised and introduced in 2001 after extensive consultation with service…

With pressure on resource from every direction, why should you welcome complaints? My husband rang the complaints line in a health setting recently.  I didn’t find it a problem, but…

As new government advice on vitamin D is issued, this week’s nutrition article answers some of the questions you may have. Why is vitamin D important? Vitamin D regulates calcium…

My last blog mentioned a death at work in a nursing home caused by lack of bed rail management. A death at work is devastating. It affects the family and…

Cancer care will affect approximately one in two individuals in social care settings through their lifetime. In this, the last of four articles on cancer care, I consider the need…

Children Are Suffering In Silence Vulnerable Children Children are often the ones most affected by family circumstances, the justice system, education, abuse, and medical factors such as HIV. Even the…

In our nutrition blog this week we will be looking at why poor oral health may impact on the nutritional status of service users in care homes. The National Institute…

With lifetime prevalence moving towards 1 in 2, cancer care is likely to touch all of us at some point of our working lives. The high incidence also means many…