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• CQC resources aim to help health and care providers learn from safety incidents

  29-06-2018 16:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  The independent quality regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC), has published a new series of resources – ‘Learning from safety incidents’ – to help those in charge of running health and care organisations ensure the safety and well-being of people using their services. 
   
  Developed to share common critical issues initially identified from CQC’s criminal prosecution work against nine health and care providers that have failed to provide care and trea
  
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• Target Healthcare REIT acquires two luxury care homes from Octopus Healthcare

  29-06-2018 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  Target Healthcare REIT has acquired two award-winning luxury care homes developed by Octopus Healthcare, part of the Octopus Group, and Aura Care Living as it announces its investment in the business. As part of the transaction and in partnership with Target Healthcare REIT, Aura Care Living’s CEO and founder Linda Lloyd has acquired sole control of Aura Care Living. 
  Mike Adams, Chairman of Octopus Healthcare, said: “Octopus Healthcare’s development financing expertise ha
  
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• As the NHS marks its 70th birthday care leader asks for better support for social care

  29-06-2018 16:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  Properly funding social care would help transform the next 70 years of the NHS, a care leader said today.
  As the NHS marks its 70th anniversary, Mike Padgham says the best present it could be given would be better support for social care.
  He is so worried about the current crisis in the care of older and vulnerable adults that he has penned his FIFTH letter to Prime Minister Teresa May calling for action. And he has repeated an invitation to her and to Secretary of State for Health and Social Ca
  
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• Ending prejudice in care: 'As we go grey we don’t become less gay'

  29-06-2018 10:02
  A new initiative aims to make care homes more inclusive for older LGBT peopleRamses Underhill-Smith set up Alternative Care Services, which provides home care support to LGBTIQ+ adults in London, after a friend contracted HIV. “He was living in New York and when the carers discovered he had HIV they refused to touch him. He was really distressed and I decided I wanted to do something about it. It made me think: What will happen to me when I get older?” says Underhill-Smith, who is tr
  
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• The UK project giving refugees another chance at childhood

  29-06-2018 09:29
  Young refugees face unspeakable trauma to get here. But a cross-charity initiative is helping them to rebuild their lives
  It is hard to be an adult when you feel like you haven’t had the chance to be a child. Related: How English councils are supporting unaccompanied child asylum seekersRelated: 'Young migrants in Ireland are treated as children, not asylum seekers' We can’t take away what they’ve been through, but we can ensure they have something to look forward to Related: S
  
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• Renewed service gives a voice to people in Warwickshire with mental health conditions

  29-06-2018 09:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  A project that helps people with mental health conditions’ voices get heard hopes it can make Warwickshire’s provision amongst the best in the country.
   
  Warwickshire Co-Production Service gives people with mental health conditions the opportunity to shape the services they access, from counselling to psychiatry. Holding regular forums and workshops, the programme puts people’s experience and opinions at the heart of service improvement.
   
  The Warwick-based scheme als
  
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• New guide aims to help care providers deliver better support for ex-service men and women

  29-06-2018 08:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  A new guide launched this month, aims to help care homes provide better support for the hundreds of thousands* of service men and women in assisted living in the UK. 
  Produced by Demos think tank, in partnership with the Forces in Mind Trust and the Care Cluster of Cobseo (The Confederation of Service Charities), the guide has been sent to all UK care homes and care home provider headquarters.
   
  Polly Mackenzie, Director of Demos says:
   
  “We created this guide in r
  
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