A new digital-first strategy for Care Home Management magazine
By Ailsa Colquhoun, Editor, Care Home Management Care Home Management will be implementing a digital-first strategy from its November-December issue. S & A Publishing Ltd, which produces CHM, is following a growing publishing industry trend and moving away from a print publication to reduce its own carbon footprint. The magazine will now be sent to […]
Over-exposed and under-protected
By Ailsa Colquhoun, Editor, Care Home Management The COVID-19 pandemic has had a lasting effect on healthcare professionals: lost jobs, lost income, debilitating symptoms which render even the most mundane tasks near-impossible, and huge barriers to accessing treatment. According to the BMA, which represents UK doctors, there are the repeated stories of UK doctors living […]
Happy birthday, ICS!
By Ailsa Colquhoun, Editor, Care Home Management Magazine I am hopeful that social care can achieve some important wins in the new Integrated Care Systems (ICS) in England, which have recently celebrated their first anniversary. In Herefordshire and Worcestershire (H&W), ICS leaders have created an ICS Academy. This aims to be a key enabler of […]
Be a part of developing infection control policy in care homes
University College London researchers are seeking care homes to take part in a Vivaldi follow-up study to improve infection control in care homes. The aim of the new study, called ‘Vivaldi Social Care’ is to gather data from care homes to develop policy and measures to prevent and reduce infections such as norovirus and flu. […]
Why you can never be too old
By Care Home Management Magazine Watching ITV’s The Chase is always an education – and not just because of the range of knowledge that is demonstrated by the contestants and the Chasers. Quite often, when a young player (that I would class as aged under 30) comes to the table, I find myself astonished at […]
What can other sectors tell us about care?
It’s easy to think that people outside the world of care can’t understand care, and, perhaps, when the job demands specific technical or clinical skills, it is understandable that everybody in our world might fish from the same small recruitment pond. In our most recent look at the adult social care workforce dataset[1] it is […]
A moment to reflect: What next for care?
When we (the Care Home Management magazine team) first started planning our 100th issue last year, I was keen to include a ‘Happy Birthday’ message to those residents who were also celebrating their 100th. I was very pleasantly surprised to see how many there are! One of the good things about publishing a 100th issue, […]
Seamless or pointless? Care homes consider the first six months of Integrated Care Systems
By Care Home Management magazine freelance writer Eleanore Robinson In July 2022, 42 Integrated Care Systems (ICS) were launched with the aim of joining up health and social care systems to provide more seamless services. Six months on, however, social care providers are finding it hard to get involved with these new bodies, set up […]
What will you do differently as a result of COVID-19?
By Ailsa Colquhoun, Care Home Management As the UK grapples with the ‘new normal’ of life with COVID-19, it’s possible to look back over the past few months and think about the many changes we have had to make in our lives. For many people, changes have revolved around getting to grips with home working: […]
Band Aids don’t fix bullet holes
By Ailsa Colquhoun, Care Home Management For almost two hours recently MPs sat down to debate an e-petition with over 120,000 signatures to discuss the recognition and reward of health and social care workers in light of COVID-19. And at the end of it all, minister for care Helen Whately simply told MPs the same […]
