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News, analysis and strategic recommendations to help you deliver the best quality of care for your residents and improve the commercials in your care home/s.

Is your care home eligible for free iPads?

By admin / October 9, 2020

The coronavirus crisis has had severe repercussions on every industry, but the care sector has been especially hard hit. With…

Flexible care home consultancy – when you need it

By admin / October 6, 2020

At Fulcrum Care Limited, we pride ourselves on our flexibility, adaptability and commitment to driving your care home forwards. Last…

Should care and support workers be registered?

By admin / September 11, 2020

In Wales, home care workers will have to register from 2020 and this will extend to care home staff from…

Manager as a Coach – MAC

By admin / September 5, 2020

The purpose of being the MAC in a business context is to help employees consider how they might work and…

How to get the most out of an inspection

By admin / July 28, 2020

What does a good inspection look and feel like? CQC have published this document on the 23rd July 2020 after…

Developing and living your mission, vision, and values statements of your care home

By admin / July 27, 2020

Having visited hundreds of care settings over the years, I have recently been thinking more about why clear visions and…

Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) preparedness audit

By admin / July 17, 2020

It is inevitable that when CQC resumes inspections, after easing of lockdown rules, they are likely to focus on infection prevention and…

Care Home Staff Development

By admin / July 8, 2020

Following my last blog on the difference between training, learning and competence I thought I would write about staff development.…

Training, learning, competence, what’s the difference?

By admin / June 26, 2020

So, is it just about delivering the right range of training courses at the right intervals? No CQC Regulation 18…

CQC to Restart Inspections

By admin / June 18, 2020

The following news article appeared on the CQC website on the 17 June ‘‘Regulation during COVID-19 why raising concerns about…