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Act FAST and Reduce Your Salt Intake
May 2, 2014
May is Action on Stroke month. Every year there are approximately 152,000 strokes in the UK. That’s one stroke every five minutes, and stroke is the third single largest cause…
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In Defence of Dementia Care in Care Homes
May 2, 2014
Care homes took another shocking blow this week with the expose of a small number of individuals, acting independently, in a small number of care homes, shown by the BBC…
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National Smile Month 2014
May 2, 2014
National Smile Month is back – between 19 May and 19 June. The British Dental Health Foundation say this is the UK’s largest oral health campaign and is designed to…
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The Importance of Employee Handbooks
May 2, 2014
How many words are there in your employee handbook? A recent article in May’s edition of People Management highlighted the Employee Handbook for Fashion Retailer Nordstrom – it contains just…
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You’re Not Hearing What I’m Not Saying
May 2, 2014
One of my friends recently became a mother to a baby girl and last week brought her new daughter in to work to meet the staff team. Cue a gaggle…
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Who is my GP?
April 30, 2014
With the introduction of the new Unplanned Hospital Admissions Enhanced Service there’s a requirement for patients to have a ‘named GP’. Most patients with long term conditions will arrange their…
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Information Governance
April 25, 2014
What is IG? Information Governance, or IG as it is commonly known, is a set of multi-disciplinary structures, policies, procedures, processes and controls implemented to manage information at an enterprise…
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Dementia Care: The Vital Importance of the Built Environment
April 25, 2014
Most buildings are designed to meet a rather specific requirement of use. Care homes and hospitals are designed to fulfil an institutional purpose, a purpose which does not enrich life…
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