Latest news

• Discussing and planning medicines support
  22/01/18

  A quick guide from NICE for home care managers providing medicines support.

• The Wayback Project
  22/01/18

  A virtual reality film series designed for those living with Alzheimer’s and their carers.

• CPD training from Healthcare Conferences UK
  03/01/18

  HC-UK Conferences Ltd have a full series of CPD Certified conferences and masterclasses planned for 2018 taking place in London, Birmingham and Manchester focusing on role development and quality improvement. 

  Group discounts and FREE places are available.

• How dementia-friendly technology can improve lives
  20/12/17

  These 6 information sheets from Dementia Friendly Technology (DFT) Working Group set out how dementia-friendly technology can improve lives. 

• Advice on how to comply with data protection law
  20/12/17

  The Information Commissioner’s Office has produced practical advice on how to comply with data protection law and how to improve data protection practices in your business, including how to keep employees’ and customers’ personal information secure and how to get ready for the data protection reforms. 

• 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.