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Access All Areas
August 16, 2013
Some positions in life can seem more difficult depending on what angle we are viewing them from. Our obligations concerning disability access is one of those issues. On one hand,…
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Inclusion – Political Voices
August 15, 2013
This month, Ángela Covadonga Bachiller took up her new post as a town councillor in the Spanish city of Valladolid. She states in a press release that she wants to…
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Equal Opportunities or Diversity?
August 14, 2013
These are terms on which even HR professionals can be unclear; indeed the latter has different definitions depending on the source chosen. If you look at the Chartered Institute of…
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CQC: To rate or not to rate?
August 9, 2013
The newly appointed CQC Chief Inspector of Adult Social Care, Andrea Sutcliffe, will make developing a ratings system for homecare inspections a priority in her first few months of post.…
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Ripe for harvest
August 7, 2013
About three years ago, I wrote an article about the futuristic advances in dentistry that we could only dream of. I thought I was being clever in discussing the idea…
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Pay per prod
August 7, 2013
The public were made aware of a heated debate this week with headlines “Charges to See Your GP”. This was the result of the publication of a survey by Pulse…
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Bullying at the Care Quality Commission (CQC)
August 7, 2013
Recent publicity about worrying levels of bullying at the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has a good side to it. But firstly, unfortunately, the report by an independent group, People Opportunities,…
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Lessons learned? – CQC raises the compliance bar for prospective learning disability service providers.
August 7, 2013
It appears that a change is coming for prospective providers of learning disability services, as CQC release plans that see a requirement for considerably more detail to support the application…
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