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• Important: Please take part in our survey to review the impact of the Dignity in Care Campaign
  09/07/09

  Please supprt the important consultation currently being carried out to measure the impact of the dignity in care campaign.

• Mystery Shoppers in the NHS
  08/07/09

  A mental health trust in London is to use 'mystery shoppers' to check on the performance of nurses and other staff

• A year of progress towards high quality care for all
  08/07/09

  Lord Darzi publishes his report High Quality Care for All: Our Journey So Far

• Sir Michael Parkinson asks local councillors to champion dignity in care
  08/07/09

  Our Dignity Ambassador spent the day in Yorkshire on 1 July encouraging councillors and senior managers across health and social care to put dignity at the heart of care.

• Music in Care Homes: Let the Music Play
  06/07/09

  Read these stories of music can bring light to resident's lives.

• Transforming Community Services
  06/07/09

  Dignity Indicators are proposed in the new Quality Framework for Community Services.
  

• Regulator pledges a louder voice for people who use health and social care services
  19/06/09

  Care home residents, hospital patients and people who receive care at home will have more say in improving the quality of care services than ever before, the Care Quality Commission has pledged.

• Attitudes to mental health problems improving in most areas
  19/06/09

  The public is broadly sympathetic towards people with mental health problems, according to a Department of Health survey published today.

• Royal Marsden Hospital tops the poll on dignity indicator
  14/06/09

  97% of inpatients surveyed at the Royal Marsden said they were treated with dignity and respect by the Trust. The highest perecentage of all Trusts in the country. Find out how your local trust performed.

• Prisoners get an hour of fresh air a day - an hour more than many care home residents
  14/06/09

  The National Association for Providers of Activities for Older People (NAPA) launches its Breath of Fresh Air Annual Challenge on Monday 12 June.

• Update your dignity champion profile
  11/06/09

  Calling all champions- please help us to provide a better support system to you. Update your details so that we know more about you and are able to tailor our communication

• Public rank carers alongside emergency services
  09/06/09

  Carers rank alongside the emergency services in terms of their contribution to society, according to a new survey commissioned for Carers Week 2009.

• Subsidised Caterer Training
  09/06/09

  Vegetarian for Life is planning to introduce subsidised training - in catering for vegetarians and vegans

• Patient Survey Reports Published
  26/05/09

  This report is produced by the CQC as part of the ongoing NHS national patient survey programme. The current survey took place between October 2008 and January 2009, with the sample drawn from patients who were discharged from hospital between June and August 2008. Patients were eligible for the survey if they were aged over 16 years, had at least one overnight stay in hospital, and were not admitted to maternity or psychiatric wards. The survey involved 165 acute NHS trusts, and had responses from over 72,000 patients

• Quality accounts: New reporting requirements announced
  26/05/09

  New reporting requirements announced in April will see NHS foundation trusts across England and all NHS organisations in the East of England report on the quality of care their organisations as part of their 2008/09 annual reports. This follows a joint consultation by Monitor, NHS East of England, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and the DH.

• Leeds Radio Dignity Adverts
  26/05/09

  Leeds council have developed radio adverts to help promote dignity in thier local area. These can now be found online, take a listen & gather ideas

• HOSPITAL CATERERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL CONFERENCE
  26/05/09

  'No Borders, No Boundaries' was the theme for the conference. The conference aimed to identify and agree how health professionals can work together to identify the obstacles that work against food service and delivery on the wards; it will examine the legal issues around nutrition and it will consider what impact, if any, the Darzi report will have on the future delivery of services.

• LAUNCH OF THE SOCIAL CARE WORKFORCE STRATEGY
  26/05/09

  The previous Minister for Care Services launcheds the social care workforce strategy in his speech to the ADASS (Directors of Adult Social Services) spring seminar. This was the one event in the year aimed at all ADASS members - all 150 serving Directors of Adult Social Services (DASS), Associate members and invited guests. The Social Care Workforce Strategy sets out the vision for the adult social care workforce in a world where personalised care is at the heart of public services. It identified a number of workforce strategic priorities and commit DH and its sector partners to undertaking a range of activity, which will support the workforce in enabling delivery of the outcomes set out in Putting People First

• Help needed to develop guidance for Overview and Scrutiny Commitees
  11/05/09

  Your help is needed in developing guidance to help Overview and Scrutiny Reviews to focus on dignity

• Chief Nursing Officer approves immediate steps to boost patient care at Stafford Hospital
  08/05/09

  Extra nurses and an experienced Assistant Director of Nursing are being deployed to Stafford Hospital to boost frontline staff.