When it comes to maintaining high and legal standards in care, staff development and training should be at the top of your list. As stated by the Care Standards Act 2000 (standard 28), care staff require at least three days of training annually to continue providing care.
Finding a good social care training provider is a very important decision to make, as the right provider can make training easier, motivate your staff and provide you with all of the evidence required to follow and meet legal criteria.
Care services are responsible for providing care and treatment to vulnerable individuals and the quality of the care they provide is largely determined by the carers within the service.. The Care Standards Act 2000 (standard 28) states that care staff require at least three days of annual training to continue providing care.
This means that training and education of both nurses and care assistants in care services are essential for the safety of both the staff and service users. It ensures that high-quality care is delivered to those who need it, staff remain motivated and that standards are always maintained.
To ensure you maintain high and legal standards within your care service, staff training and development are essential and should always be prioritised. The Care Standards Act 2000 (standard 28) states that care staff require at least three days of annual training to continue providing care.
To meet these standards, and to enhance the skills and knowledge of your care givers, you must find a good social care training provider and the right training method for you.
Making the NHS greener is not a new objective, but NHS England is making a renewed push for a greener NHS. The goal is to make efficiency savings that can be put back into care provision, whilst also benefiting the environment through less pollution and less waste.
This means balancing business practices that will benefit the environment against those that won’t; only continuing with the necessary evils that a major healthcare organisation cannot avoid if it wants to continue to provide excellent care.
How to get more home care clients? If you run a domiciliary care service it’s a question you will think about a lot. Whether you’re an established domiciliary care provider or you’re starting a home care agency, you would have noticed that the demand for care is constantly rising and may have asked yourself how your own service can fulfil that demand.
While there are many ways to market a home care business, some methods will require more time, knowledge and resources compared to others. However, whatever the size or age of your home care business, you will want to get as many people on board as possible. The more people you provide care for, the more referrals and recommendations you will receive.
From organising care home Christmas activities and Christmas entertainment, to ensuring you have safe levels of staffing and being understandably concerned about your residents at this time, if you operate or work in care homes this Christmas you have a lot to contend with.
Christmas is a time filled with joy and the company of loved ones. Unfortunately, not everyone living or working in a care home has the privilege of being around their family at Christmas, or their time may be limited due to their living setting or work commitments. Whatever their situation may be, there are things care homes can do to make Christmas a special time for all.
Data quality is a rating of how relevant information or statistics are to a specific purpose.
There are six common characteristics for judging the quality of data according to the UK government:
- Accuracy – Is the data correct?
- Completeness – Has all information been collected?
- Consistency – Was the data collected the same way each time?
- Validity – Does the data collection meet business rules and national laws?
- Uniqueness – No duplicate or overlapping data sets
- Timeliness – Is the data recent enough to be informative?
Digital inclusion might sound like a buzzword but for healthcare the importance of digital inclusion cannot be stressed enough. Modern technology is enhancing healthcare to be more effective but also more flexible and personal to the individual.
This is great – but not if the user can’t engage with this new approach. This poses a problem to the patient but also to the clinician, who has a duty to provide the very best care possible. Instances where a patient can’t use the best resources mean a workaround is needed, which can be costly in time and effort and possibly at the expense of other patients in need.
In this article we explore what digital inclusion is, what digital exclusion looks like, the impact on the NHS and the UK, and the benefits to be had by either empowering patients with the education to utilise digital tools or the support to help get them online and connected.
If you’re thinking about digitising your care services, or in the process of doing so, there’s probably a lot weighing on your mind.
Making sure you choose the right system, how to get it implemented with as little disruption as possible, and ensuring you get the most out of it, the best return on your investment.
As the UK’s largest provider of social care software, we’ve guided thousands of providers of all shapes and sizes to digitisation success. Often care providers come to us having first failed with another software vendor.
Nurses, care home managers and care home staff who have received adequate medication training are responsible for medication administration. As with many nursing interventions, there are risks involved.
The R’s of medication administration were put in place to protect the interests of both those administering medicine and the person taking medicine/s, alongside reducing the harm that can be caused by medication errors. To help you gain a better understanding, we’ve put together this guide explaining the 5 R’s of medication safety.
