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Medicines in health and adult social care: Learning from risks and sharing good practice for better outcomes
Introduction This report by the CQC brings together what they have discovered through their regulatory activity about the risks from medicines. It raises important issues for everybody involved with medicines in all health and adult social care settings. There has...
Simple Guide to the Mental Capacity Act – Best Interests Decisions
The Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA) provides a framework to empower and protect people who may lack capacity to make some decisions for their care or living arrangements. Under the MCA, you are required to make an assessment of capacity, if there is any doubt that the...
Improving Nutrition in Dementia Care (Part 2)
This blog focuses on the practicalities of providing a nutritious diet for those with cognitive impairments as part 2 of a 3-part blog series. However, this approach can apply generally across the board to all people living in residential homes. Recent research...
CQC Guidance: Relationships and Sexuality
This is a quick ‘at a glance summary’. Please see full article (link below) for more details. Who is the guidance for? This guidance is intended for providers of adult social care and is a central component of providing care that is tailored to the individual’s needs....
End of Life Care. Improving standards in Care Homes
This article identifies some of the issues arising for care homes in respect to end of life care and suggests some remedies. It is recognised that very often families do not want to talk about end of life care and the staff may feel inadequately equipped to broach...
CQC: Registering new services using the Healthcare Assessment Framework
The CQC has published new guidance on how to prepare for registering a new service. There are some key principles worth being aware of, in advance of your application, as it will save time and effort down the line. Having these in place will also avoid the pitfalls of...
Improving Nutrition in Dementia Care
There is no doubt that good nutrition can have a really significant part to play in improving quality of life for the elderly or people living with the challenge of Dementia or Alzheimer’s. A healthy balanced and enjoyable diet is the key to wellness and vitality at...
CQC: Changes to Factual Accuracy Challenge Submission
CQC is making changes to the Factual Accuracy Challenge Submission which is completed post inspection. Previously this required filling in a template form with the ability to detail any items of challenge to inspector findings and to provide evidence to support...
Changes to the CQC Inspection Report format
Important update for all Registered Providers, Registered Managers and Nominated Individuals. From January 2019 the CQC is introducing a new element to the reporting process:- “From 28th January, we will be rolling out improvements to ‘how we report’. This follows...
‘Log my Care’ – An Affordable, Efficient Approach to Care Management.
Many care homes are still managing case records on paper, which is often overwhelming and inefficient, but likely the only feasible way in a time of financial crisis. However, Log my Care is a new electronic care management system for use by carers, care managers and...