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Get off your sofa and on your feet!
October 14, 2015
It’s well documented that people with learning disabilities struggle to access sports and physical exercise opportunities, with telling consequences for their health. What does it take to help improve this…
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The Right to Die
October 13, 2015
The Bill The House of Commons recently rejected what is known as the “Right to Die Bill”. The vote wasn’t close; 118 MPs voted for and 330 against. At the…
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Shared Parental Leave to be extended to working Grandparents
October 12, 2015
Under plans announced by George Osborne at the Conservative Party Conference last week, paid Shared Parental Leave (SPL) will be extended to working grandparents. If the plans are implemented, the…
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Advance Care Directives
October 11, 2015
In Scotland, people receiving health and social care can make advance directives. These are statements of how they would want their future care to be provided, in the event that…
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Be Inspired – Take time out to motivate and establish good practice!
October 11, 2015
Take time out This week I am attending a local Practice Managers conference. Whilst initially I had the usual thought that I really couldn’t afford the time to take two…
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Implementing your Quality Care Policies and Procedures
October 10, 2015
Over the past three years the continuously changing nature of care quality compliance has become clearer to Registered Providers and Managers across the UK. At first many thought that to…
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Lessons for Communication of Malnutrition
October 9, 2015
Malnutrition Task Force It is rewarding to see research in malnutrition including the people that are actually involved with the day to day care of older people. So I was…
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Jump in, Join in, Get connected!
October 9, 2015
I was speaking to a colleague last week about online sources of information and was flabbergasted when he told me that he had never used it. Moreover, he was so…
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