Adult Social Care

The introduction of a new pathway for developing people who work with those with learning disabilities will be of interest to service managers in health and social care. I’m a…

An Outstanding Service The healthcare of vulnerable people is one of the CQC’s areas of concerns. A survey by Homeless Link survey showed 90% of homeless people are registered with…

nutritionDay is a worldwide annual benchmarking initiative for all types of hospital wards and nursing homes. It aims to improve knowledge and awareness of malnutrition in health care facilities, and…

Over the past three years the continuously changing nature of care quality compliance has become clearer to Registered Providers and Managers across the UK. At first many thought that to…

Malnutrition Task Force It is rewarding to see research in malnutrition including the people that are actually involved with the day to day care of older people. So I was…

Implied Duty It is a well-established principle that a contract of employment is subject to an implied term that an employer must not, without reasonable and proper cause, act in…

The Equality Act 2010 Employees and workers are able to claim that they have been subjected to victimisation if they can show that they have suffered a detriment as a result…

Almost a third of recent inspections ‘Requires improvement’ I’ve been looking at some recent CQC reports and it seems that the CQC inspection teams aren’t pulling any punches when it…