Latest news

• Free carbon monoxide awareness training
  20/12/17

  The Gas Safe Charity is running free, interactive half day workshops to help organisations become more aware of the sources, signs and symptoms of Carbon Monoxide (CO) poisoning.

• Books /articles you might like to explore
  20/12/17

• Demonstrating the health and social cost-benefits of lifestyle housing for older people
  19/12/17

  This report commissioned by Keepmoat Regeneration / ENGIE and prepared by the Housing LIN sets out the case for developing specialist retirement housing for people aged over 55.

• Information governance – CQC have now included a new kloe/prompt under well-led
  19/12/17

• Making your home a better place to live with dementia
  19/12/17

  Care & Repair England with Silverlinks has updated its guide on Making your home a better place to live with dementia.

• Thriving at Work: a review of mental health and employers
  19/12/17

  The independent review into workplace mental health, commissioned by the Prime Minister in January and led by Dennis Stevenson and Paul Farmer, has published its report, Thriving at Work.

• Healthy Workplace Toolkit for an Agency Workforce
  19/12/17

  A new toolkit which is aimed at all health and social care employment agencies and host organisations.

• National Dignity Council members Christmas update
  19/12/17

  National Dignity Council members are actively involved in a number of areas promoting the Dignity Campaign - find out what's been happening this month.

• Funding for training and resources
  24/10/17

  Help us secure funding for training and resources to raise the awareness of what people’s rights are with regard to dignity when receiving care and support services.

• What happens when people leave hospital and other care settings?
  24/10/17

  Findings from the Healthwatch network.

• Care homes which champion equality and human rights are more likely to be rated outstanding
  24/10/17

  CQC claims there is a clear link between a provider’s quality of care and how well it treats its staff and residents in terms of human rights and treating them equally.

• Nissan's car which can tell when you're thirsty
  24/10/17

  A development by Nissan seems to be a piece of technology that is aching to be adapted into something ‘wearable’ or usable for an individual at home or within a care setting. 

• Do we need to re-think our approach to choice, and giving people with learning disabilities the choices that are spoken of?
  24/10/17

  Housing LIN viewpoint no.88

• NICE’s new quality improvement resource for adult social care
  24/10/17

  This resource offers you access to individual quality statements and managing medicines recommendations, to help you shape high quality adult social care services and improve the well-being of adults using social care.

• What Works Guides – Action Plan on Hearing Loss
  24/10/17

  NHS England has published a series of guides to help people who experience hearing loss.

• Best Practice in care coordination for palliative and end of life care services: information for commissioners
  24/10/17

• New framework to promote person-centred approaches in healthcare
  24/10/17

  Skills for Health, Health Education England and Skills for Care have announced a new Framework to support person-centred approaches for the health and social care workforce.

• Coming out of hospital factsheet
  24/10/17

  Carers UK have updated their factsheet to support carers in understanding hospital discharge, including care planning, access to services and the carer assessment.

• LGBT: Living with dementia
  24/10/17

  A useful factsheet for both individuals and those who are providing support.

• CQC will be using the new KLOE’s for Adult Social Care from the 1st November
  24/10/17

  Links to further information if you work in this field.