A major part of aging in place is living in your home safely and independently. Diabetes can impact your independence, but you can limit its impact.
Education is key.
Atherosclerosis occurs when deposits of fats, cholesterol, calcium, and other substances build up in the arteries and cause a plaque buildup in the lining of the artery. High [...]

UKHCA, the homecare sector’s professional association, has welcomed the government’s commitment to free personal care in the Queen’s Speech. The proposals, if correctly implemented, will recognize people’s general preference for care at home as an alternative to residential care.
However, we need more detail on how the new system will operate and be costed. While Government [...]

Death and dying remain one of the last taboos in our society. Most people would imagine that their GP would be able to talk to them about the care they want at the end of their lives.
But in fact more than two-thirds of GPs have not discussed preferences for their own end-of-life care with their [...]

“We welcome the Prime Minister’s commitment in the Queen’s speech to reform the current adult care system. However, our evidence shows that for any new system to work it must be fair, transparent and sustainable.
Too many users of the current system are left in the dark to struggle with inadequate services. At the moment many [...]

Legislation introducing a new registration system for all regulated health and adult social care services in England has now been laid before Parliament. To help social care providers get ready for registration, CQC has published two short guides on its website providing an overview of how it plans to progress registration (for homecare providers between April 2010 – October 2010 [...]

High Quality Care for All and the local visions developed by Strategic Health Authorities that accompanied it set an ambitious goal of putting quality at the heart of the NHS by making it its organising principle.
Achieving this goal will require the greatest movement for change in the 60 years since the NHS was created to provide [...]

Medical recruiters have given a mixed response to a government proposal that by 2013 all new nurses recruited by the NHS will have to have a degree.
New courses lasting up to four years will replace the two or three year nursing diploma courses, which are currently the minimum entry level required for those joining the [...]

It’s a year since we first started talking to NHS organisations about our ‘customer care in the NHS’ package of research. And I can now tell you that we’ve successfully delivered our very first piece of customer care work – to NHS Sefton.
With customer care being a topic of discussion amongst the team for the best [...]

The Secretary of State for Health has made it clear that Disability Living Allowance for the Under 65s will not be affected by Government plans to create a National Care Service.
Speaking at the National Children and Adult Services Conference in Harrogate, Andy Burnham MP said: ”I am encouraged by the response to our Big Care Debate [...]

Charity Shop Opening
Nugent Care’s first Charity Shop opened its doors for the first time. The shop at 73 Allerton Road in Liverpool stocks fashion, books and bric-a-brac. The opening was conducted by Lord Mayor of Liverpool Councillor Mike Storey and the day was enjoyed by customers, volunteers and Nugent Care staff alike.
Since the opening the [...]

Achieving high quality care for all has always been the focus of this site. As we’ve been exploring recently, however, with changing fiscal times must come new strategies for ensuring that Lord Darzi’s vision, around which the whole NHS has now organised, continues to be met. Efficiency must be our new watchword – only by [...]

While we’re on the subject of issues on which we’d like your input, and on which you don’t have much longer to give it, The Big Care Debate has only one more month left to run. You’ll remember that this consultation takes as its basis the Shaping The Future of Care Together Green Paper, and [...]