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There are many reasons to use bed rails on beds for people with dementia or other confusion related illnesses. The most important reason for using bedrails on a bed is obvoiusly the risk of death due to someone falling out of bed and hitting their head on the floor. However, there are also...
With the general election looming many of you will be thinking about what the parties views are on long term care. We have outlined below what each party is proposing if they were to get into power. Labour With people becoming increasingly aware of our ageing population, Labour made noises...
The findings of the recent White Paper report make interesting reading for anyone involved within the social care industry. A proposed commision will be set up if Labour wins the coming election with the important job of finding a way to fund a national care service. A leadership group...
The health secretary Andy Burnham has outlined three ways that funding for the National Care Service could be raised. The announcement was made at a conference arranged by Age UK; he also revealed that a white paper on these funding options would be published before the end of April. The options...
A recent outbreak of a bug called Norovirus at Burnham hospital has lead to a local cleaning regime in, not only the hospital, but in schools and care homes as well. One ward has been locked down, with admissions and discharges temporarily suspended. This is due to several patients on this ward...
In a recent speech in London, Gordon Brown outlined new plans to provide one to one nursing for all cancer patients for the next 5 years. He also stated that all results for cancer test would be given in only one week. These new reforms would be paid for by the NHS which would save £20...
The Personal Care at Home Bill went through the House of Commons and had its first reading in the House of Lords on 13th January 2010. The second reading will take place on the 1st of February before reaching the committee stage. During this stage all the individual clauses of the Bill will be...
Everybody knows that keeping in shape has health and wellbeing benefits, but not everybody can simply pull on some shorts and a t-shirt and go for a run. For those people who need care to complete everyday tasks, exercising needs a little more thought. Swimming is a good alternative if access...
Today at our offices in Long Sutton, as part of our customer service commitment we are giving all our sales and warehouse staff, training on our hoists and mover products. One of our suppliers has kindly agreed to give us demonstrations on how their products are used. Every member of our sales...
Back in August this year the Department of Health outlined its plan on who would receive the first batch of swine flu vaccines. Front line social care workers are among the first groups to be offered the vaccine, if you have not already received your invitation to be vaccinated then it is...
The government released a Green Paper titled “Shaping the Future of Care Together” which set out a possible future for social care in England back in July this year. What it is trying to achieve is to find a range of services that are affordable, easy to use and available to anyone...
Medical supplier launches new catalogue dedicated to the care industry Barclay Swann Ltd has launched its latest catalogue to supply products to the care home industry. After months of work sourcing products and producing the catalogue and website it was launched today. The managing director...
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