Adult Social Care

A colleague was proudly boasting that her service had a really low level of accidents and incidents since she dispatched a member of staff who had been involved in a…

‘Postcode lottery’ for top-up fees in social care? A survey published last week by the charity Independent Age has exposed that there is much confusion among councils over top-up fees…

Despite working in Homecare for a number of years, I still lack the answer to ‘What makes a Good Care Co-ordinator?’  I truly have no idea, and yet Care Coordinators…

I recently attended a seminar on the management of errors in medicines administration and got into an interesting debate with a fellow professional about how such errors are managed. Neither…

t’s always nerve-wracking when you are expecting any independent inspection of your service. I recall a time when the CQC would give you notice of a visit which would ensure…

If you have worked for some time in supporting adults with learning disability, then there is a fair chance that you have encountered behaviour that has challenged you and the…

One of the notable benefits of the findings of the serious case review into the Winterbourne View scandal is new guidance in supporting staff with challenging frontline roles. Whilst the…

The theme of this year’s mental health awareness week was the importance of physical exercise in promoting mental health and wellbeing. The theme fits in with something I have written…