Dale Elkin-Walker, Consensus
A lifetime in care, the last 23 spent in hospital with few possessions and little family contact, Debbie faced another move. This...
Archive - 5th September 2018
Award winning Marnie Walker, Nurse Manager from St Anne’s Community Services, leads a team who support six people who have learning disabilities with...
Using the Mental Capacity Act in the Community
As an adult social worker joining the NHS in 2016, I did not imagine that within a year, I would be producing a...
Hallmark Care Homes has joined forces with The Together Project, a not-for-profit social enterprise that runs creative activities to unite different age groups...
Walk into Dundonald House Nursing Home, South Ayrshire on a Thursday afternoon and you might just believe you’ve strutted into Cafe Les Fleur in...
Residents at a specialist dementia care home in Wellington have been having a great time with a role-play activity that has taken them on a flight of fancy to...
Eccleshare Court Care Home has enjoyed the company of a group of 15 to 17-year-old student volunteers from the National Citizens Service. Led by young...
In March 1999, the Royal Commission on Long Term Care reported. It was critical of the prevailing system of funding social care, saying that “doing nothing...
Every provider knows that care plans are critical to understand what’s going on in an organisation and to ensure quality – and consistency – of care...
Using a person-centred approach to undertake basic healthcare screening – including blood testing – for people with a learning disability has...






