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Forty-plus years on from the recommendations of the Robens Committee’s for the improvement work place safety, were enacted in the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 (HSAWA), the concept…

Employers will regularly come across employees with medical conditions which result in those employees being signed off as unfit for work. It is important for employers to be aware of…

Many of us are now surviving into old age AND very old age i.e. 80 years plus. But old age will often lead into multiple pathologies, especially as individuals become…

The National Care Standards in Scotland are available to service users and their carers in choosing and evaluating the service they receive. They are service specific standards in developing and…

We often forget that in organising and providing ‘ordinary’ lives for service users, there is something rather precious we omit from the plan. We work really hard to make lots…

Regular readers of my blog will be aware of the importance of an adequate vitamin D status in the older adult, as well as throughout a person’s lifetime. So those of…

The Perfect Care Week is a national improvement programme from the Department of Health (DoH), allowing a growing number of trusts across England to implement changes that can improve the…

If you have a new member of staff starting in your team this Monday morning, this is an exciting opportunity to expand the diversity of your team skills and add value…