Continence Care Conference 2018
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust Continence Care Conference 2018 Date: 3rd October 2018 Venue: Molineux Stadium, Wolverhampton
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Blog: We’re introducing new ways of inspecting care homes
By Rami Okasha, Executive Director of Strategy and Improvement
New ways of inspecting care homes are due to start in July 2018, reflecting Scotland’s new Health and Social Care Standards. When the new standards were published in 2017, the Care Inspectorate hailed these as being radical, modern and really focused on supporting people’s power, control, human rights and wellbeing.
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Blog: Care services across Scotland are generally working well to protect children from the risks of sexual exploitation
By Charlotte Wilson, Service Manager
Earlier this week the Care Inspectorate published its report Preventing and responding to child sexual exploitation: evidence from inspections of care services for children and young people. This presents the findings of a focused programme of scrutiny to see whether the foundations are in place to support care services to prevent and respond effectively to child sexual exploitation.
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Drug Alert: Recall of Cough Syrups
The MHRA have issued an alert recalling 15 batches of the cough syrups as a precautionary measure due to a small number of reports of mould.
For more information see MHRA website at link below:
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/medicines-and-healthcare-products-regulatory-agency/
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Report on child sexual exploitation
Care services across Scotland are generally working well to protect children from the risks of sexual exploitation, according to inspectors.
The Care Inspectorate has today published a report on a focused scrutiny programme which looked at how well care services are preventing and responding effectively to child sexual exploitation.
Inspectors found that, overall, care staff were generally well informed about the risks of exploitation and understood their roles and responsibilities in promoting young people’s wellbeing, but identified a number of areas for improvement. The findings come from over 330 inspections of residential care, boarding school accommodation, residential special schools, secure care, fostering agencies, and adoption services.
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