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• Nurse work environments linked to outcomes

  26-03-2019 18:27
  Nurses play critical roles in patient safety and are often the last line of defense against medical errors and unsafe practices. Considerable research has explored the relationship between the nurse work environment and a variety of patient and nurse quality and safety outcomes. But until now, no synthesis of this body of research has been made to clearly articulate the association between nurse work environments and health care quality, safety and patient and clinician well-being.
  
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• Clare in the community: bucketful of Brexit

  26-03-2019 16:00
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• Quick thinking? It's all down to timing

  26-03-2019 15:56
  Synaptic plasticity, which underlies learning and memory, involves the strengthening and weakening of synapses. This process is affected by the relative timing of spikes in electrical activity in the pre- and postsynaptic neurons. Researchers have now found that, when both spikes occur simultaneously (or within tens of milliseconds of each other), the synapses were strengthened for up to 4 hours. These findings could impact research in conditions with impaired learning and memory.
  
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• Much loved resident celebrates her 101st birthday at Dorset care home

  26-03-2019 15:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  A ‘much loved’ lady born during the last few months of World War One has celebrated her 101st birthday with a tea party at her Dorset care home. Joan Waddington enjoyed an afternoon of good wishes, chocolate cake and hits from the 1940s, 50s and 60s performed live by Bournemouth singer Scarlett Bow. Friends and […]
  
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• Closomat takes single handed care provision to another level

  26-03-2019 15:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  Closomat is giving social care providers a new dimension in single handed care. The company- Britain’s leading provider of enabling toilet solutions- maintains that appropriate choice of equipment/ assistive technology delivers single handed care from a different perspective: in its case, single handed being just the person who needs help, eliminating any need for one- […]
  
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• Dame Sue Black: ‘One girl’s case led me to pursue child sexual abusers’

  26-03-2019 15:00
  A leading forensic anthropologist on the unique hand-recognition database she set up following a failed convictionIt was a failure that still haunts Dame Sue Black, a leading forensic anthropologist, that drove her to develop a hand-recognition technique that identifies child sexual abusers.Better known for identifying human remains in the aftermath of wars and natural disasters, Black turned her attention from the dead to the living after she was unable to secure the conviction of a father whos
  
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• Wales is right to ban smacking. But it’s not the whole solution | Nell Frizzell

  26-03-2019 11:00
  Legal remedies alone won’t protect children when the support services that parents need to cope are being destroyedWhen you’ve been awake since dawn, you haven’t spoken to another adult for six hours, you’re having your first period in two years and your baby is refusing to go to sleep despite having been awake since 4.22am, there is a very fine line between playfully flicking bits of sheepskin out of your child’s hand before they eat it, and just hitting your child
  
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• Banning smacking won't stop it happening. Parents need more support | Nell Frizzell

  26-03-2019 11:00
  The Welsh government has banned smacking. But at the same time services that help parents cope are being destroyedWhen you’ve been awake since dawn, you haven’t spoken to another adult for six hours, you’re having your first period in two years and your baby is refusing to go to sleep despite having been awake since 4.22am, there is a very fine line between playfully flicking bits of sheepskin out of your child’s hand before they eat it, and just hitting your child.I know
  
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• Anchor Hanover brings home the spoils at the 2019 EAC Awards

  26-03-2019 10:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Anchor Hanover, England’s largest not-for-profit provider of housing and care for older people, has won an incredible 61 regional accolades as part of the annual Elderly Accommodation Counsel (EAC) Awards. The impressive tally includes 26 Gold, 26 Silver and nine Bronze awards, given for retirement housing and also housing-with-care. Five Anchor Hanover locations have also […]
  
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• Good food, noisy TVs, busy staff: what I learned from my stay in a care home

  26-03-2019 09:28
  After becoming chief executive of a care charity, I decided to learn about our services from a resident’s point of viewWhen I told people I planned to move into a care home for the weekend, they warned me I risked losing my laundry, if not my dignity. But my experience was different.I was appointed chief executive of The Fremantle Trust, a charity providing social care for older and disabled people, earlier this year and was keen to learn about our services from a resident’s point of
  
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• Watford care centre hosts free ‘funding healthcare’ Q&A open day

  26-03-2019 09:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Chase care centre in Watford is holding a free open day event to provide advice on the financial aspects of residential care. Hosted in partnership with Eldercare Solutions, the event aims to provide a common sense, jargon-free advice to people who have questions surrounding the topic of funding care services for a loved-one. The […]
  
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• Rebranding exercise takes Housing & Care 21 “back to the future”

  26-03-2019 08:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Housing & Care 21 is proud to announce its plans to go “back to the future”, by rebranding as Housing 21 effective from April 2019. Marking a milestone 55 year anniversary, the organisation is proud to announce its rebrand, alongside an ambitious build programme and clear vision for the future. Bruce Moore, Chief Executive said: […]
  
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• Record number of children missing from care in England

  26-03-2019 01:01
  MPs to launch inquiry after figure more than doubles since 2015MPs are to launch an inquiry into the record number of children missing from care in England.Ann Coffey, who heads the all-parliamentary group for runaway and missing children and adults, is to invite those working in this area to give their views about the risks faced by children who go missing after being sent miles away from their homes for care. Continue reading...
  
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