NHS branding and lanyards

30 April 2024

The use of the NHS logo on uniforms ​The NHS logo should be positioned on the right-hand side on staff uniforms when face on, with your company logo on the left-hand side under the wording ‘Service provided by’, please see NHS guidance. The sizing of your company logo should be proportional to, but not larger than, the NHS Continue reading…

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• Extra care housing,
• Group-based care and day services,
• Personal care at home,
• Personalised support and enabling,
• Replacement care services,
• Residential and nursing care homes,
• Supported living

Selling, buying, transferring your business

21 March 2024

This guidance is intended to help you if you are selling your care business or buying a care business from another provider. Find out what you need to do to ensure a smooth transition of your commissioned business. In order to ensure a smooth transition, it would help to receive formal notification as far in Continue reading…

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• Extra care housing,
• Group-based care and day services,
• Personal care at home,
• Personalised support and enabling,
• Replacement care services,
• Residential and nursing care homes,
• Supported living

Oral health for adults

8 March 2024

Resources to help you get started Public Health England and stakeholders have produced the toolkit to support care homes and commissioners to implement the NICE guideline (NG48): Oral health for adults in care homes. The toolkit contains materials to support health champions within care homes to train care home staff.  These include training slides, a Continue reading…

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• Extra care housing,
• Group-based care and day services,
• Personal assistants,
• Personal care at home,
• Personalised support and enabling,
• Replacement care services,
• Residential and nursing care homes,
• Supported living

Financial guidance for care providers who support clients living in the community

14 February 2024

Devon County Council Court of Protection Team Financial Guidance for Care Providers who support clients living in the community

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• Extra care housing,
• Group-based care and day services,
• Personal assistants,
• Personal care at home,
• Personalised support and enabling,
• Replacement care services,
• Residential and nursing care homes,
• Supported living

Improved care and health worker parking permit scheme launched

21 August 2023

Permit will help care and health workers ‘to do their jobs’ A new Care and Health Worker Parking Permit has been launched, and it allows professionals visiting people at home to park on single and double yellow lines in certain circumstances. Currently care and health workers who hold the existing permit can park in on-street, Continue reading…

Categories:

• Personal care at home,
• Replacement care services,
• Residential and nursing care homes

Devon Housing and Accommodation Strategy

5 August 2023

Healthy Lives, Vibrant Communities and Housing Choices 2020-2025  is the joint Devon County Council and NHS Devon Clinical Commissioning Group housing and accommodation strategy recently published by Devon County Council. The strategy recognises the importance of housing and accommodation in promoting the independence of people with social care needs and sets out how the authority Continue reading…

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• Residential and nursing care homes,
• Supported living

Ombudsman issues good practice guide for care providers

21 July 2023

The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman has issued a good practice guide which shares lessons from complaints to help adult social care providers improve their services. Based on the Ombudsman’s lengthy experience of investigating complaints about independent providers, the guide gives real-life examples of the common problems the organisation sees – and offers some Continue reading…

Categories:

• Extra care housing,
• Group-based care and day services,
• Personal care at home,
• Personalised support and enabling,
• Replacement care services,
• Residential and nursing care homes,
• Supported living

Tags: Care providers, good practice guidance

South West Cyber Resilience Centre

9 June 2021

They are a police / private not-for-profit partnership, funded by the Home Office and covering the South West of the country. They offer free and inexpensive cyber services for local small and medium sized enterprises and third sector organisations. Cyber can be daunting for small businesses and sole traders. It’s hard to know where to Continue reading…

Categories:

• Extra care housing,
• Group-based care and day services,
• Personal assistants,
• Personal care at home,
• Personalised support and enabling,
• Replacement care services,
• Residential and nursing care homes,
• Supported living

Updated set of cleaning standards

13 May 2021

NHS England has published a new set of cleaning standards, revised in light of the pandemic to reflect the most up-to-date scientific understanding of how to prevent and control infection.

Categories:

• Supported living,
• Extra care housing,
• Group-based care and day services,
• Personal assistants,
• Personal care at home,
• Personalised support and enabling,
• Replacement care services,
• Residential and nursing care homes

Policy for the Management and Administration of Medication

24 November 2020

Categories:

• Residential and nursing care homes

Tags: Care homes, Medication policy

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