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Do you Know How Much Employee Absence Costs your Business?

September 5, 2014
A recent survey of 2,000 employees, showed that as many as a quarter of workers throw a ‘sickie’ on their first day back from holiday. A survey completed by Bupa…
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Catch me if you can

September 5, 2014
Fraudulent activity I attended a meeting this week and one of the speakers was our local NHS Counter Fraud Officer. Whilst we assume we know where fraud could possibly be…
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LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook: Have you got it covered?

September 5, 2014
It seems that you only have to go onto to various social networking websites to see some of the comments the public are writing about the allegations involving Cliff Richard.…
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CQC II – The Sequel

September 4, 2014
Setting the scene Changes are afoot! Care Quality Commission have published their plans and timetable for changes to the way dental practices are inspected. To précis these, they are based…
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Changes for service planning for young adults

September 4, 2014
Adult service providers may not be aware of the changes in special needs children’s services that came into force on 1st September. Some aspects of the new SEND Code of…
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Workplace Safety Outside The Building – Part Two

September 3, 2014
In part one of this blog, I discussed how important health and safety was before a person went inside the premises. The starting point has to be outside a building,…
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Hand hygiene – the beginning

August 29, 2014
This is the first of a series of articles over the coming weeks reviewing the importance of hand hygiene in the reduction of the transmission of pathogenic microorganism. Some of…
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Risky Business

August 29, 2014
I can almost hear the audible sigh of relief from care providers as the summer holidays draw to a close. Getting through each summer period unscathed is surely a miracle…
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