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The CQC will rate against population groups The CQC intends to rate practices against six population groups – older people, long term conditions, mothers, babies and children, working age, people…

The built environment has an important part to play in the management and prevention of cross contamination of pathogenic microorganisms. Healthcare workers operate within buildings housing a variety of vital…

A BBC Panorama documentary in May 2011 focused on Winterbourne View, a private hospital for people with learning disabilities, run by the Castlebeck group. Viewers saw inpatients being abused and…

The health and safety of new or expectant mothers…now there’s a topic that always raises a number of HR related questions. Whilst not trying to encroach into the Health &…

A UK report on hydration, Addressing the Problem, Understanding the Solutions was published by the International Longevity Centre on behalf of the Parliamentary Hydration Forum last week. Lack of adequate…

This month I have been drowning in reports and opinions on the state of community care. Here is my rambling reflection of where we are and where we are going…

The reception areas in any building are the first point of contact for visitors and service users. In the last blog we reviewed controlling the access and exit of people…

Over the past 50 years, it has been hard to escape reports about the benefits of a Mediterranean diet, embodied perhaps by consumption of olive oil. Historically the diet entered…