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Despite working in Homecare for a number of years, I still lack the answer to ‘What makes a Good Care Co-ordinator?’  I truly have no idea, and yet Care Coordinators…

I keep seeing CQC inspection reports with non-compliance issues that have common factors.  Yawn, Yawn, I know it`s a pain in the neck, but some of these common faults are…

There has recently been speculation in the press that patients wouldn`t trust a doctor in a t-shirt.  This has sparked some lively debate about dress code in hospital and general…

What it is Definitions of these phenomena have varied over the years as interested bodies and legislators have struggled to find workable descriptions. However, we now have a clear legal…

I recently attended a seminar on the management of errors in medicines administration and got into an interesting debate with a fellow professional about how such errors are managed. Neither…

Good in principle but poorly applied The Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) is to be phased out following a review commissioned by the government. Although the LCP has been strongly criticised,…

t’s always nerve-wracking when you are expecting any independent inspection of your service. I recall a time when the CQC would give you notice of a visit which would ensure…