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There is evidence of widespread use by parents of alternative treatments for treating and improving symptoms in children with autistic spectrum disorders (ASDs), and these are generally perceived as risk…

Putting the user at the centre of services is a long-standing policy direction. Making this a reality is more difficult to do than to say. In the new Social Services…

What are the concerns? I saw a question posted on a forum recently asking other practices if they have patients as volunteers and it got me thinking about the roles…

For many years, working with people with complex learning and health needs, I have been guilty of delivering care which I believed to be in their best interests, whilst never…

The Facts The latest HSE statistics have been released and confirm work related muscular skeletal disorders to be one of the highest rates of absence from work with over 9.5…

CQC Regulation (9) is concerned about the Patient-Centred nature of care provision. Whilst it’s difficult to argue that dental treatment could be anything but entirely person-centred as every clinical prescription…

What are the National Care Standards? The National Care Standards in Scotland are a set of indicators for the quality of regulated care services. They were devised and published after…

Activity is unpredictable At this time of year influenza activity is usually at low levels and, whilst last year’s flu season was again less severe than some we’ve had we…