CQC Review Of How NHS Trusts Investigate And Learn From Deaths
CQC is carrying out a review of how NHS trusts identify, report, investigate and learn from deaths of people using their services. This follows a…
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Compassionate Employer Programme Launched By NCPC
NCPC has recently launched the Compassionate Employer programme to help employers support their staff during bereavement. In any workplace bereavement can be challenging for employers and employees as…
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Nurchat Nurses Scope The Proposed Nursing Associate Role
Bridging the gap between healthcare assistants (HCA), support workers and registered nurses (RN), the new nursing associate (AN) role; announced in December 2015, has raised…
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NHS England Backs Innovative Care Initiative
NHS England has today announced a £1.75m investment in an innovative family-based initiative to help more people to be cared for in a home, not…
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New Insights Into Face Recognition In Alzheimer’s
Journal of Alzheimer’s disease: A qualitative impairment in face perception in Alzheimer’s disease: Evidence from a reduced face inversion effect. Researchers in Canada have found…
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Hill Care Supports 120-Mile Charity Cycle Ride Through Yorkshire
CARE home group Hill Care participated in a grueling Sheffield to Middlesbrough cycling event to raise funds for charity RideforEric. The event – named Hills2Boro…
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Sweettree Honours Its First Care Certificate ‘Graduates’
Eighteen carers from SweetTree Home Care Services say they are ‘thrilled’ to have become the company’s first Care Certificate ‘graduates’. The Care Certificate was introduced…
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Going Down Under With Residents From Court Regis
Residents from Court Regis care home in Sittingbourne have recently become pen pals with residents from Palm Lake care home in Queensland, Australia. Activities Coordinator…
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£388k For Bristol Study Linking Alzheimer’s And High Blood Pressure
Thanks to a £388k funding boost from Alzheimer’s Research UK, a team of researchers at the University of Bristol is embarking on a study to…
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Social Care Employee Engagement Survey Tri-Partite Coalition To Tackle Critical Social Care Workforce Challenges
The two leading organisations representing not for-profit providers, the Voluntary Organisations Disability Group and the National Care Forum, have joined forces with Agenda Consulting to…
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Milestones Trust, The Charity Behind The New Specialist Dementia Home, Celebrates 30th Anniversary In 2016
North Swindon MP Justin Tomlinson has officially opened the marketing suite at Abbey House, a new specialist dementia home being built in Swindon. The launch…
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A Milestone To Remember, Fairlawn Helps To Celebrate 60th Wedding Anniversary
It is a special time of year for local couple Muriel and Dennis Hornes, who were delighted to recently celebrate their diamond wedding anniversary in…
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Social Care Employee Engagement Survey
Tri-partite coalition to tackle critical social care workforce challenges The two leading organisations representing not for-profit providers, the Voluntary Organisations Disability Group and the National…
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ONS Reports Spike In Number Of Deaths In 2015 Driven By Increased Mortality In Over 75s
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) and Public Health England, have carried out analysis of weekly and monthly death figures. This comes after the 2015…
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British Bake Off Celebrity Visits Hallmark Care Home To Cook With Residents
Celebrity chef, Jo Wheatley recently visited Hallmark Care Home, Admiral Court in Essex, to bake with the residents and share culinary advice with the care…
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