Filter Posts:
Should we audit nutritional care in care homes?
January 30, 2015
A range of policies and guidance documents have been produced in the UK highlighting the need to ensure people in hospital or residential care receive good quality, nutritious foods and…
Read more
Are you missing a trick with recruitment?
January 30, 2015
A recent survey taken by the Recruitment and Employment Federation (REC) suggests that recruiters should ‘improve their hiring strategy to consider the most talented in the over 55s age group’.…
Read more
Keyboards and infection prevention
January 30, 2015
Have you ever wondered when using your keyboard what happens to the crumbs of that tasty sandwich you are eating or the droplets after you sneeze or cough? Well, it…
Read more
Lost in Translation
January 30, 2015
What are the requirements? Practices are still confused about whether or not they are required to provide translation or interpretation services to patients whose first language is not English. Even…
Read more
The emperor’s new contract
January 30, 2015
Sometimes I feel really old. I was in practise for twelve years before we had a ‘New Contract’ in 1990. Somehow we survived another 16 years before the next ‘New…
Read more
Can you afford not to?
January 29, 2015
More and more scrutiny of providers’ business practice by commissioners means hours completing paperwork. For smaller providers, the cost of keeping up with requirements puts a strain on their business.…
Read more
Getting out
January 23, 2015
There are many examples of how being outdoors in green spaces and close to nature can help to reduce illness and to promote our general health and wellbeing. Dutch research…
Read more
Handed on a plate and Spoon-fed
January 23, 2015
Is it better to provide people with what they need, or support them to go out and find it themselves? This week I have been pondering the world of students.…
Read more