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Does your Record keeping meet Best Practice Requirements?

January 17, 2016
In the rush and pressure of a busy dental clinic it is easy to consider that by delaying record keeping you can make time for treating patients. This is never…
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BAPEN Care Home Reports on Malnutrition

January 16, 2016
At the end of last year, the British Association for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (BAPEN), a charitable association that raises awareness of malnutrition, published its Nutrition Screening Week Care Home…
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Time to shine? The ‘Wellbeing Wales Act’ and European Social Care for Learning Disabilities

January 16, 2016
“Hello, I’m Anna I have a severe form autism, I’m 20, I’m too old for schooling and  unlikely to be able to go to work, I feel vulnerable and the…
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Exclusivity in Zero Hours Contracts

January 15, 2016
Zero hours contracts have been the subject of much debate in the media recently, particularly in relation to the way in which workers do not know, from one week to…
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When medication can harm

January 15, 2016
The Herald newspaper recently posted an article about a person who had long term problems with prescribed medication. The lady has launched a video and a petition to the Scottish…
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Gongs

January 13, 2016
Its that time of year again when seemingly large numbers of people are being honoured for their activities. What’s in an honour anyway? Apologies to those of you who anticipated…
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Are Your Nurses Ready for Revalidation?

January 12, 2016
What is Revalidation? About 6 months ago all the talk was about nurse revalidation, what it was and what nurses had to do. From April 2016 all nurses and midwives…
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Temporary Workplace Closures

January 10, 2016
Earlier in December we wrote a blog (https://www.qcs.co.uk/adverse-weather-faqs/) giving guidance to employers on some of the HR issues which can arise from adverse weather conditions following some severe floods earlier…
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