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Winterbourne View – time for change
December 2, 2014
A BBC Panorama documentary in May 2011 focused on Winterbourne View, a private hospital for people with learning disabilities, run by the Castlebeck group. Viewers saw inpatients being abused and…
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Expectant mothers: Have you considered the risks involved?
December 2, 2014
The health and safety of new or expectant mothers…now there’s a topic that always raises a number of HR related questions. Whilst not trying to encroach into the Health &…
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Hydration and older people in the UK
December 2, 2014
A UK report on hydration, Addressing the Problem, Understanding the Solutions was published by the International Longevity Centre on behalf of the Parliamentary Hydration Forum last week. Lack of adequate…
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MORE talk?
December 2, 2014
This month I have been drowning in reports and opinions on the state of community care. Here is my rambling reflection of where we are and where we are going…
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Workplace safety inside the reception area
November 21, 2014
The reception areas in any building are the first point of contact for visitors and service users. In the last blog we reviewed controlling the access and exit of people…
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Should we all be following a Mediterranean diet?
November 21, 2014
Over the past 50 years, it has been hard to escape reports about the benefits of a Mediterranean diet, embodied perhaps by consumption of olive oil. Historically the diet entered…
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Outcome based care
November 21, 2014
I have been working recently with rehabilitation services, and I am struck by the very effective outcome based approach to support they use. This is perhaps because of the very…
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A ‘common sense’ guide to Ebola for GP practices
November 21, 2014
About Ebola Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a rare but severe infection caused by the Ebola virus. Since early this year there has been a large outbreak of Ebola virus…
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