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Cold & Flu: Age-by-Age Guide
Having a sick baby can be a scary time for parents. This two-part guide has helpful advice to ease the anxiety for parents caring for little ones.
Cold, Flu or Allergy? Know the Difference for Best Treatment
When you've got the sniffles and a sore throat, it can be hard to diagnose the cause. Understanding the differences between a cold, the flu and allergies will help you choose the best treatment.
BAPEN Malnutrition Self-Screening Tool
We are writing to inform you that the Malnutrition Action Group of BAPEN*, has developed a web based Malnutrition Self-Screening Tool to help patients and /or their carers identify their risk of malnutrition. Based on 'MUST', the most commonly used screening tool throughout the UK, the new Malnutrition Self-Screening Tool includes an easy to use calculator to identify risk of malnutrition, dietary advice to improve nutritional intake and encourages those at risk to seek further help and information from their GP or other healthcare professional.
The launch of this Malnutrition Self-Screening Tool, represents BAPEN’s commitment to improve nutritional care in the community, where most malnutrition develops and exists at a given point in time. Since malnutrition predisposes to disease, delays recovery from illness and detrimentally affects well-being, its effects extend to other care settings, including hospitals and care homes. Therefore, identifying and treating malnutrition early in the community, could not only improve clinical outcomes and general health related well-being, but also reduce admissions to hospitals and costs of care.
The Malnutrition Self-Screening Tool will be available via a new website: www.malnutritionselfscreening.org for use by the general public from 1st December 2015.We hope you will take the opportunity to alert your membership about the launch of this initiative, which aims to, inform, empower and involve people in their own care, whilst facilitating appropriate interactions with healthcare professionals. Please take time to review BAPEN’s new Malnutrition Self-Screening Tool. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact us.
Performance Review 2014-2015
In our 2014/15 Performance Review Report we have noted that, this year, as before, all regulators meet the great majority of the Standards of Good Regulation. However we have greater concerns than noted in previous reviews about the performance of some of the health and care regulators in relation to some of the Standards for registration and fitness to practise.
NICE and General Practice Webinar
It’s estimated that 1 million patients receive care from a GP or community nurse each day. As primary care faces this increasing demand for services, often with limited resources, family doctors must also meet the unique challenge of applying national guidance to the more personal setting of a GP consultation.
In this
webinar
we will discuss how NICE can support improvement in the quality of care
without placing additional pressures on GPs. Are NICE products useful
for primary care, and
how does NICE take GPs views into consideration?
Who Pays For Care
Now is the time to consider who pays for care.
Thousands of families have taken legal action over the past decade against NHS Trusts to recover care costs paid by loved ones who had wrongly been to encouraged to sell homes, and savings to pay for care costs.
Care Quality Commission
The Care Quality Commission will regulate and improve the quality of health and social care and look after the interests of people detained under the Mental Health Act.
Our work, bringing together regulation of the quality of health and adult social care for the first time, will touch the lives of almost everyone in England.
Criminal Records Bureau
The CRB website - provides you with information about the CRB and its services.
The CRB’s aim is to help organisations in the public, private and voluntary sectors by identifying candidates who may be unsuitable to work with children or other vulnerable members of society.
Smoke-free (Exemptions and Vehicles) Regulations 2007
Click the link for information on smoke free regulations.
