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- May 30, 2022
- 3 min
Understanding the difference between policies, procedures, protocols, and guidance, PPPGs
It is now over two years since I wrote the blog on ‘understanding the difference between policies, procedures, protocols, and guidance,...
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- May 17, 2022
- 3 min
Are you paying too much for your policies and procedures?
A quality management documentation system (policies and procedures) is key to the operation of any social care service. Indeed, the...
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- Mar 22, 2022
- 2 min
Bettal success in supporting homecare providers to achieve registration
This year we have seen here at Bettal Quality Consultancy a rapid increase in the number of potential homecare providers seeking our...
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- Feb 12, 2020
- 3 min
Social Care providers running out of options in attempting to reduce costs
A new research report commissioned by HFT, a national charity supporting adults with learning disabilities, carried out by independent...
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- Aug 13, 2019
- 3 min
Covert administration of medicines should be last resort
It is important that staff who provide social care services understand that every person has the right to refuse their medicine, even if...
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- Feb 27, 2019
- 3 min
Recruitment and retention of staff
Skills for Care estimates that around 390,000 people leave their jobs every year – that’s over 1,000 every day - and approximately...
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- Dec 21, 2018
- 2 min
It's that time of year again
Let’s hope 2019 is a better year for Social Care Services Looking back over the year 2018 I have tried to bring to your attention...
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- Dec 6, 2018
- 3 min
CQC is driving social care services to make more use of technology
Benefits of technology in care Technology can: give people more control over their health, safety and wellbeing support them to be more...
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- Nov 23, 2018
- 3 min
New Skills for Care advice on safe staffing
Skills for Care as part of their ‘Good and Outstanding Range’ have produced guidance for managers on safe staffing. The guide explains...
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- Jun 13, 2018
- 4 min
CQC Driving Improvement Report
CQC published its Driving Improvement Report. The report sets out how services who had previously been graded as inadequate improved to...
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- May 31, 2018
- 3 min
NHS Digital innovation £1m up for grabs for adult social care technology pilots
NHS Digital and managed by the Local Government Association (LGA), with support from the Association of Directors of Adult Social Care...
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- May 16, 2018
- 4 min
A strategy for improving recruitment and retention of staff in social care services
Facing the Facts, Shaping the Future: A Health and Care Workforce Strategy for England to 2027. The adult social care workforce is larger...
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- Apr 25, 2018
- 3 min
Support for providers to comply with the GDPR.
GDPR PrinciplesArticle 5 of the GDPR requires that personal data shall be: (a) processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner in...
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- Mar 20, 2018
- 2 min
The importance of hand hygiene in social care settings
World Health Organisation ran a campaign designed to improve hand hygiene and highlighted: The 5 moments of hand hygiene at the point of...
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- Jan 3, 2018
- 4 min
The unfair practice of self-funding residents subsidising residents
aggregate expenditure has declined in real terms by 8% between 2009/10 and 2015/16 in England. The sector has reported facing challenges...
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- Dec 21, 2017
- 1 min
It that time of year again - Looking back over 2017
crises in social care funding to the use of yoga in care homes. The central purpose of my blogs is to keep you informed of innovative...
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- Nov 16, 2017
- 3 min
Bullying and harassment in the social care workplace
ACAS are an organisation that I greatly respect for their guidance and expertise, and in this blog I provide a short review on their...
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- Oct 11, 2017
- 3 min
CQC Social care services state of care 2014-2017
Background Adult social care is the largest sector that CQC regulates, with a large number and range of providers, a strong private and...
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- Sep 11, 2017
- 1 min
Health and Social Care Apprenticeships
adults with learning disabilities, care of the elderly and domiciliary care working to help people to be able to stay in their own homes....
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