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Defining the Skills Required by Registered Managers
December 8, 2015
Definitions of the standards for the leadership and management skills required for dental practice managers to comply with legal and ethical requirements are beginning to emerge with guidance from the…
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Bringing Services to The Person – Care Village
December 7, 2015
Traditional care homes for older people have largely operated in the same way for many years. Some could be criticised for being away from the local community and simply providing…
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Pay day this Christmas – Is this an issue for your business?
December 6, 2015
We have received a number of enquiries from care providers seeking advice on whether or not they can alter the pay date for their staff this Christmas due to when…
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Gluten and Casein Free Diets for Autism Spectrum Disorder
December 5, 2015
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…
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Measures to Promote Choice, Diversity and Quality of Service
December 5, 2015
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…
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Patients as Volunteers?
December 4, 2015
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…
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Empowered by Understanding
December 4, 2015
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…
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Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders (WRMSDs)
December 3, 2015
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…
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