Both how much and what you eat and drink not only affects your weight but it impacts on your mood,… Read More
What is PEG feeding? This article will provide you with an introduction to PEG (percutaneous endoscopic gastronomy) feeding, a form… Read More
After a while, the hospital or care home where you work becomes as familiar to you as your own home.… Read More
As you know, patients and their relatives can behave in a range of unpredictable and challenging ways - some can… Read More
When working as a nurse or health care assistant in the adult care sector, care homes or hospital setting, you… Read More
There are many terms used to describe person-centred care, including 'patient-centred care', 'resident-centred care', ‘client-centred care’ or ‘woman-centred care’. Each… Read More
The Skills Platform has launched a toolkit to assist those responsible for delivering the Care Certificate to new employees as… Read More
We welcome this guest post from Sally Garbett, Vocational Programmes Manager at St Christopher's Hospice. This article first appeared in… Read More
In healthcare, the focus is often on brilliant surgeons, nurses or doctors (who, of course, we applaud). However, nurses and… Read More
With thousands of people undertaking training to meet the Care Certificate standards since its launch a year ago, we interview… Read More
The Care Certificate has been helping to standardise the initial training of new health and adult social care support workers… Read More
We get a large number of inquiries regarding the Care Certificate, so thought we'd… Read More