Expert Insights

I hope your week was good.  It was the Easter Holidays and we made tracks to Devon. Time to reflect on a new topic. CQC have efficiencies to make as they…

Over recent years the area of dental practices that experienced the most significant changes is that of decontamination. The earliest CQC inspections were firmly focused on decontamination and safeguarding and…

Sometimes, developing communication could be hampered by the basics. Ruby was a new worker who had previously had experience in a very forward thinking special school. Her job had been…

Public policy in the UK has struggled to consistently promote evidence based ‘harm reduction’ approaches to managing drug use and its effects. As a result, the criminalising drug users often…

Communicating with sick employees is crucial in managing their absence and any return to work, but it is an area fraught with difficulties, as demonstrated by the recent case of…

They say that a camel is a horse designed by a committee. The term ‘designed by a committee’ has been frequently used to define processes produced as a result of…

The RCP Audit of Practice The Royal College of Physicians has carried out an audit of care for people who are at the end of their life in hospital trusts…

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…