Expert Insights

The National Institute for Social Care (NICE) has developed guidelines for best practice in commissioning and delivering home care for older people in England. The guidelines ‘Home care: delivering personal…

The Social Services and Well-being Act 2014 The SSWA represents a step-change in our approach to health and social care. In other words, it is NOT an incremental or gradual…

Five Essential Service Accomplishments Inclusion of people with disabilities is becoming part of the British way of life. Whilst we have some way to go, it is already embedded 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…

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities The Scottish Government introduced a new strategy in 2013 to improve services for people with learning disabilities. It is based on the…

September is World Alzheimer’s Month. So what better time to look at research investigating how nutrition may have an impact on the risk of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of…

General Practice Medical Centre Environment – Responsibilities  The general practice medical centre has a duty of care to its staff, patients and visitors. The practice partners have an overall responsibility of…