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Equal Opportunities or Diversity?
August 14, 2013
These are terms on which even HR professionals can be unclear; indeed the latter has different definitions depending on the source chosen. If you look at the Chartered Institute of…
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CQC: To rate or not to rate?
August 9, 2013
The newly appointed CQC Chief Inspector of Adult Social Care, Andrea Sutcliffe, will make developing a ratings system for homecare inspections a priority in her first few months of post.…
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Ripe for harvest
August 7, 2013
About three years ago, I wrote an article about the futuristic advances in dentistry that we could only dream of. I thought I was being clever in discussing the idea…
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Pay per prod
August 7, 2013
The public were made aware of a heated debate this week with headlines “Charges to See Your GP”. This was the result of the publication of a survey by Pulse…
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Bullying at the Care Quality Commission (CQC)
August 7, 2013
Recent publicity about worrying levels of bullying at the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has a good side to it. But firstly, unfortunately, the report by an independent group, People Opportunities,…
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Lessons learned? – CQC raises the compliance bar for prospective learning disability service providers.
August 7, 2013
It appears that a change is coming for prospective providers of learning disability services, as CQC release plans that see a requirement for considerably more detail to support the application…
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Are we expecting too much?
August 2, 2013
This month I welcomed the Cavendish report which reviewed the role of Support Workers in social care. The independent report, written by journalist Camilla Cavendish, comments “the phrase ‘basic care’…
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One, One, One or No, No, No!
August 1, 2013
The news is that NHS Direct who had won 11 of the 46 regional contracts for the new 111 service, covering 34% of the population, are struggling and want to…
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