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Dementia Care: Providing ‘Good’ Dementia Care
March 7, 2014
Fundamental elements – basic tools Clearly there are a number of elements that are essentials for the provision of good, person centred dementia care. When we refer to ‘good’ we…
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Are you of “Good Character”?
March 7, 2014
The Department of Health’s Fundamental Standards for CQC Regulation, now out for consultation, make three significant points relevant to the Human Resources arena: systems and processes must be established to…
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Should GP Practices Consider Forming Alliances or Federations?
March 7, 2014
Federated Working As part of group of Practice Managers in our local Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) we are looking at working federately. There is an acceptance in General Practice that…
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A Recipe for Healthy Bones
March 7, 2014
Every three minutes in the day someone somewhere in the UK has a fracture as a result of osteoporosis. Osteoporosis, a disease that affects the bones, causing them to become…
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To Fix or not to Fix?
March 5, 2014
There is an increasing provision of dental implants in General Dental Practice. All for good reasons, as we know that this is the procedure of choice for replacing a tooth. …
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Saving our Bacon?
February 28, 2014
Whilst the cure for Alzheimer’s disease remains a distant hope, preventative strategies are important and studies with findings that may help to reduce the burden of dementia in society are…
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Dementia Care: The Stigma of Dementia
February 28, 2014
Doing with, not to While it may be a largely accurate statement to say that as most of the major dementias progress in both terms of time and severity the…
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“I Can’t Get to Work”
February 27, 2014
– it’s floods, snow, severe weather warning, a sinkhole in the road…. This is one call any hard-pressed employer dreads and the solution may well be beyond the reach of…
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