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• National charity launches free Creative Care Homes A-Z of art activities and ideas

  16-10-2020 09:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  Creative Care Homes is a free A-Z of art activities and ideas designed to help carers easily develop their current core activities for care home residents.
  National charity Paintings in Hospitals presents ‘Creative Care Homes’, a practical and helpful guide to enable everyone to deliver fun and inclusive art sessions within a care home environment.
   
  Due to Covid-19, many older people in care have endured long periods of loneliness, stress and anxiety. Creative Care Homes is a f
  
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• The State of Care – Professional bodies comment on CQC’s annual assessment on health and social care

  16-10-2020 09:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  State of CareCare England, a representative body for independent providers of adult social care, has welcomed the publication of the Care Quality Commission’s annual assessment of health care and social care in England.Professor Martin Green, Chief Executive of Care England, says:  
  “Although this year’s State of Care report makes a raft of important recommendations including a new deal for the adult social care workforce, it is disappointing to note that the report
  
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• Social care reform must deliver for everyone - not just older people

  16-10-2020 09:20
  
  Policymakers must appreciate the full breadth of care services and users if their plans are to stand the test of timeNews of further delays to the government’s long-anticipated social care green paper was met with disappointment, if understanding, from councils, with England on the cusp of a second wave of coronavirus.But the delay allows us to consider where reform could be heading, and the County Councils Network (CCN) has outlined the themes councils believe are integral to success: nam
  
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• Cambridgeshire care home calls upon the community to help in fundraising effort

  16-10-2020 07:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  The team at Home Meadow residential home in Toft, Cambridgeshire, is calling upon its local community support a fundraising effort to bring high-tech sensory equipment into the home.
  The home provides dedicated residential care for up to 49 people with a range of needs, including sensory impairments and dementia.  They are looking to raise £3000 to purchase a Digital Rainbow Virtual Table, which will offer an additional form of stimulation and engagement as part of the home’s va
  
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• England's 'fragile' care sector needs immediate reform, says regulator

  16-10-2020 01:01
  
  CQC says pandemic risks turning faultlines in England’s health services into ‘chasms’The government must immediately deliver a new deal for social care with major investment and better terms for workers, the Care Quality Commission has said, as it warned that the sector is “fragile” heading into a second wave of coronavirus infections.In a challenge to ministers, the regulator’s chief executive, Ian Trenholm, said overdue reform of the care sector “needs
  
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• CQC: COVID-19 magnifies inequalities- Focus must be on a health and care system for everyone

  16-10-2020 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Care Quality Commission’s (CQC’s) annual assessment of the state of health and social care in England looks at the quality of care over the past year. This includes the period before the full impact of COVID-19 began to be felt and CQC’s routine inspections were suspended as a result of the pandemic.
   
   
   
  Pre-COVID-19, care was generally good, but with little overall improvement and some specific areas of concern:In the NHS, improvement in some areas, includ
  
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