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It has been reported in the press that thousands of older people risk being left without enough food or drink or choking at overstretched and unsafe care homes. The Independent newspaper has uncovered these facts. They suggest that in the past three years inspectors from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) have found hundreds of older […]

It has recently been reported that the incidence of people with learning disabilities who have had to be restrained has increased by 50% a year. The Guardian reports that “staff in NHS mental health hospitals deployed restraint on such patients 22,000 times last year, almost 50% more than the 15,000 occasions in 2016, BBC research […]

2018 has seen a change in Dementia training, with the Skills for Health, Skills for Care and Health Education England (NHS) updating the Dementia Skills Education and Training Framework. The Dementia Training Standards Framework is structured into three tiers: HEE Tier Matched social care workforce group Tier 1: Dementia awareness, in terms of knowledge, skills […]

Hello – welcome to the first of the Clinical Team’s blogs. The clinical team has grown recently and we are looking to get more information to you as our customers each month on specialist clinical subjects or on changes that are happening to the training and development side of Health and Social Care. The Clinical […]