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Care in the outdoors
June 1, 2015
Care providers in the UK are increasingly using the outdoors environment to help people to gain, or regain, personal and social skills, good health and self-esteem. It is used in…
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Preventing falls in care settings
May 22, 2015
Falls by people being cared for can occur for many reasons. The consequences can be very serious, life-threatening in some cases. Considerable work is being done through a partnership in…
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Changing services, changing regulation
May 18, 2015
We are entering a changing world of social care provision in Scotland. Some of the factors which are driving change at present are: Increased personalisation of services through self-directed support…
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Drinks are important in care
May 11, 2015
It is a basic and important part of maintaining health that we should all drink enough fluids throughout the day. However, this is one of the principles of nutrition which…
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Good practice in care reviews
May 1, 2015
In Scotland there is a regulatory requirement for most care services to review the care and support given to each person at least every six months. The review is of…
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Developing quality of care in times of austerity
April 27, 2015
John Burton, in a recent Guardian article, points out that regulation does not improve the quality of care services. He gives examples of care improving and being supplied to a…
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Animals and care
April 17, 2015
A new, original service has been set up in Tower Hamlets in London by the local Clinical Commissioning Group, a health partnership of three local surgeries and a city farm.…
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Joining up services
April 10, 2015
NHS England has implemented one of the first components of its five year improvement plan, published in October 2014. This first step is the establishing of ‘vanguard sites’ which will…
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