Industry Spotlight: Care staff are ‘rightly anxious’ about merger implications, says UNISON…
One of the largest trade unions in the UK, UNISON, has publicly warned care industry executives that any outsourcing of support service functions will ‘likely to lead to opposition’ from its members, after NHS Improvement instructed all trusts located in England to create plans with neighbouring trusts for the merger of support and pathology services. An effort to reduce the NHS providers’ £550 million deficit for […]
O&H Vehicle Conversions Provide Wheelchair Accessible Vehicles (WAVs) to Care Homes…
O&H Vehicle Conversions provide specially adapted WAVs and minibuses to meet your specific requirements. Designed and built at our purpose-built 6 acre facility in Goole, we can offer personalised features with extensive design options to choose from. Layout options are discussed with the customer at the point of specification to confirm legal compliance. We already […]
Sky TV and WiFi for your care settings…
Bring your residents together in your lounge and give that home-from–home experience in your residents’ rooms with TV and WiFi packages for care settings. Sky In-Lounge & Sky In-Room packages include an unrivalled number of entertainment channels including Gold and Alibi as well as dedicated movie and sports channels. The Cloud WiFi, from Sky is […]
Guest Blog, Dr Hayley van Zwanenberg: Enhancing the wellbeing of mental health workers…
Clinical director and consultant psychiatrist Dr Hayley van Zwanenberg, medical director of two Priory Group hospitals and clinical director of the Priory’s high street Wellbeing Centres, provides her top tips on how employers should care for those working in mental health Mental health professionals listen to distressing information on a daily basis. They handle a […]
Nurse call systems never change? Think Again!
The latest developments in patient and staff monitoring can indicate which staff member attended to which call, automated alarms when clients enter areas of risk or begin to wander unaccompanied, automatic client on client aggression alerts when no staff member present, fall monitoring and clients entering another clients bedroom. New fully programmable systems cover virtually […]
O&H Vehicle Conversions Provide Wheelchair Accessible Vehicles (WAVs) to Care Homes…
O&H Vehicle Conversions provide specially adapted WAVs and minibuses to meet your specific requirements. Designed and built at our purpose-built 6 acre facility in Goole, we can offer personalised features with extensive design options to choose from. Layout options are discussed with the customer at the point of specification to confirm legal compliance. We already […]
Another step forward for the right for Palliative Care…
The right to Palliative Care has been raised again at the House of Lords as the Palliative Care Bill makes its second reading. Introduced by Baroness Ilora Finlay, the bill entitles everyone to high quality care at the end of their life, regardless of geographical location. The bill will also include a duty placed on […]
