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Management of Contractors This article will provide information on the HSE five steps to managing contractors who work on your site. The five steps are based on the HSE’s leaflet,…

What is Intelligent Monitoring? As part of their new inspection regime, the CQC published their Intelligent Monitoring report for GP practices across the country last month, understandably it has caused…

I can see the sea from where I’m blogging, somewhere exotic and enjoying a chilled drink in the last of the afternoon sun. Well, actually it’s a hot chocolate in…

25 offenders who have failed to pay the National Minimum Wage (NMW) have been named and shamed by the Government. At the top of this list are three employers whom…

A long time ago, because I’m quite old, I remember getting an abscess on my arm after a minor cut. It was huge and painful, I couldn’t move my arm…

The CQC will rate against population groups The CQC intends to rate practices against six population groups – older people, long term conditions, mothers, babies and children, working age, people…

The built environment has an important part to play in the management and prevention of cross contamination of pathogenic microorganisms. Healthcare workers operate within buildings housing a variety of vital…

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…