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What Matters to Patients?

March 21, 2014
They want to be treated as a person When I get to read the results of patient surveys they regularly tell us that they think about about their experience of…
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Dementia Care: Life Story Work

March 21, 2014
Building blocks of a programme approach to therapeutic care design Working with the person not the disease is the holy grail of dementia care, working with families both now and…
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Water Water Everywhere… But Dehydration Still a Problem in our Elderly

March 20, 2014
Nutrition and Hydration week, taking place from 17th – 23rd March 2014 recognises that nutrition and hydration are an important part of quality care, experience and safety improvement in health…
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Enabling or Restricting – What do you use Risk Assessment for?

March 19, 2014
A recent inquiry from the House of Lords around the use of Deprivation of Liberty safeguards suggests that these are being used, in some cases, to restrict people with mental…
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For Men – A New Future in Care?

March 19, 2014
In a report from the International Longevity Centre – UK there are a number of challenges to the Care Sector in the years ahead. Inevitably the need for sound funding…
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Could Do Better?

March 19, 2014
The GDC have published the results of their regular survey of public opinion regarding dentistry and the regulation of the profession.   Core questions include confidence in regulation, along with –…
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Should we Always Dismiss for Gross Misconduct?

March 14, 2014
Sometimes Gross Misconduct doesn’t actually lead to termination for a key worker. It is quite a topical subject at present with the media focussing on Alan Pardew from Newcastle United…
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Dementia Care: Life History & Life Story

March 14, 2014
The first building block for good care for those living with a dementia is to know their story, preserve it and when the time arises, use this privileged knowledge to…
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