Expert Insights

This week thoughts turn to love, romance and relationships. And its not even Spring……. I am a member of a group of professionals working in the field of learning disability…

The CQC today published their new ‘Key Lines Of Enquiry’ (KLOEs) and ‘ratings characteristics’ documents for residential and community services, including home care. You can view the new Key lines of…

QCS will continue to keep you up to date with the changes and will let you know when our new policies are ready to access. At present, we expect this…

In this article I will review hand hygiene methods and the importance of raising awareness of reducing and preventing the transmission of HCAIs in the workplace. The burden of Healthcare…

I spoke with a colleague this week who manages another branch. She sounded positively down in the dumps which was totally out of character for her. I asked if she…

Managing medication in care services is obviously very important. Medicines can be a life-saving part of care and support, and mistakes can have very serious implications.

The General Dental Council have now received over 4000 responses to their ‘consultation’ on the proposed rise in Annual Retention Fee. There was a meeting of the Council yesterday to…

Another Big Thing this month (and nothing to do with Scotland specifically) is the launch of Mencap’s ‘Hear My Voice’ campaign, which champions the right of people with learning disability…