The Healthy Living Award
The healthy living award is a national award which rewards caterers who make it easier for their customers to eat healthily. The award is supported by the NHS Health Scotland and the Scottish Government.
There are a number of care homes who currently hold the award and understand the importance of improving the health and wellbeing of their residents and staff through achieving the award criteria.
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Eat Well Age Well Project
Eat Well Age Well Project
Small Ideas, Big Impact Grants – Opening 1st October 2018
Food Train is launching the Eat Well, Age Well Project: Small grants being made available to support older people living at home who are at risk of becoming malnourished.
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Drug Alert: Recall of Cough Syrups
The Department of Health and Social Care have issued a supply disruption alert in relation to EpiPen and EpiPen Junior (adrenaline auto-injector devices)
For more information see MHRA website at link below:
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The ELECTRIC Trial
The ELECTRIC Trial: Transcutaneous Posterior Tibial Nerve Stimulation (TPTNS) as a treatment when caring for older people living with urinary incontinence.
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MHRA have issued an alert
The Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency (MHRA) have issued the following alert.
Premedical (Medicina): NasoGastric feeding tube
September 2018
Feeding systems and tubes
Model: NGP8/85 & NGP8/120L & NGP10/120L
MHRA reference: 2018/005/011/401/017
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