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Developing a new framework for delegated healthcare interventions

Social Care

Chief Nurse for Adult Social Care, Deborah Sturdy, and Skills for Care CEO, Oonagh Smyth, look at the progress being made to create a national voluntary framework to support the safe and effective delegation of healthcare interventions to the social care workforce. Image created by freepik.com ]. Building on best practice.

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Supporting delegated healthcare in the care workforce

Social Care

“Person-centred, safe and effective delegation of healthcare activities to care workers can enable people to have more choice and control of when and how things happen, with an opportunity to provide a better experience of care. The guiding principles for delegated healthcare activities [are].

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Delegated healthcare activities: the principles of great care

Social Care

It’s why I’m so pleased to see the publication, this week, of ‘ Delegated healthcare activities: guiding principles for health and social care in England ’. In fact, these qualities are as much a description of social care colleagues as they are the services they provide and the values they espouse.

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A new treatment for PTSD in healthcare staff

MQ Mental Health

Since the start of the pandemic there have been many concerns raised about the wellbeing of frontline healthcare workers. Even before the pandemic, people working in the emergency services and healthcare fields were three times more likely to have PTSD or depression symptoms than the general population. . said Jennifer. “

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Reducing Workplace Violence in Nursing & Healthcare

Relias

Workplace violence is an all-too-common problem in healthcare, and the recent shooting in a Tulsa, Oklahoma, hospital complex serves as the latest tragic example. Department of Labor, the rate of serious workplace violence incidents was, on average, more than four times higher in healthcare than in private industry between 2002 and 2013.

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Native American Healthcare Disparities: Challenges and Solutions

Relias

without coverage — Native American healthcare disparities clearly still exist despite efforts to eradicate them. A deeper understanding of these factors can help healthcare organizations better serve these communities, address the root causes, and ultimately provide more beneficial effects and lasting change. . — with 34.3%

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The principles of delegated healthcare

Social Care

The further embedding of delegated healthcare interventions in the care workforce in England represents our ongoing initiative to marry social care experience with clinical excellence to deliver enhanced, high quality and consistent care.