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Water Water Everywhere… But Dehydration Still a Problem in our Elderly
March 20, 2014
Nutrition and Hydration week, taking place from 17th – 23rd March 2014 recognises that nutrition and hydration are an important part of quality care, experience and safety improvement in health…
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Enabling or Restricting – What do you use Risk Assessment for?
March 19, 2014
A recent inquiry from the House of Lords around the use of Deprivation of Liberty safeguards suggests that these are being used, in some cases, to restrict people with mental…
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For Men – A New Future in Care?
March 19, 2014
In a report from the International Longevity Centre – UK there are a number of challenges to the Care Sector in the years ahead. Inevitably the need for sound funding…
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Could Do Better?
March 19, 2014
The GDC have published the results of their regular survey of public opinion regarding dentistry and the regulation of the profession. Core questions include confidence in regulation, along with –…
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Should we Always Dismiss for Gross Misconduct?
March 14, 2014
Sometimes Gross Misconduct doesn’t actually lead to termination for a key worker. It is quite a topical subject at present with the media focussing on Alan Pardew from Newcastle United…
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Dementia Care: Life History & Life Story
March 14, 2014
The first building block for good care for those living with a dementia is to know their story, preserve it and when the time arises, use this privileged knowledge to…
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A Shift of Perspective
March 14, 2014
Last week, I had the good fortune to be struck down with an acute dental problem. For several days I was in pain which could not be fully controlled and…
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GP Out-of-Hours Services to be Inspected and Regulated
March 13, 2014
What changed? Over 10 years ago most Practices were part of a local on-call doctors’ service which enabled patients to get through to a GP when their surgery was closed…
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