You are our eyes and ears – a new tool for care at home
We’ve produced a new pocket guide in collaboration with Sue Ryder. Our improvement team worked with Sue Ryder’s care-at-home service in Arbroath to develop and test a new way of documenting the condition of clients at each home visit, to pick up on any deterioration and alert seniors so they can enable faster access to assessment and treatment.
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Survey to explore the life experiences of people with learning disabilities in Scotland
Survey to explore the life experiences of people with learning disabilities in Scotland is now open!
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Celebrating our volunteers
If one word was to sum up our volunteers it would be Inspiring!
This week is Volunteers’ Week. It is a chance to celebrate and say thank you for the amazing contribution millions of volunteers make across the UK.
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Press release: Southfields care home, Falkirk
A care home in Falkirk must make urgent improvements in the care experienced by residents, inspectors have said.
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Social care survey
The Scottish Government is working with a wide range of local and national organisations to help support contingency planning in the social care sector in response to the possibility of a No Deal EU exit. As part of this work they have commissioned Scottish Care to research the social care sector's preparedness, levels of contingency planning and resilience factors. This will mean over the next few months as part of this work, they will be looking for sector leaders to share their concerns in 3 separate survey's. These surveys will start by looking at clinical consumables.
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