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In partnership with Consultiv Utilities Every Litre Counts: Why Water Efficiency Is Becoming a Board-Level Issue Water sits at the heart of safe, effective healthcare. As financial pressure, sustainability targets…
A Panic Button Is Not a Safety System: The Care Worker Protection Gap Providers Need to Close Why violence prevention, lone-worker protection, incident response and organisational learning now need to…
There is a sentence in the Health and Safety Executive’s current guidance that adult social care should pay very close attention to: Health and social care employees should not accept…
Adult social care has achieved something significant. By the 30 June 2026 deadline, 22,429 CQC-registered adult social care services in England had an up-to-date Data Security and Protection Toolkit, representing…
A care home can have excellent broadband and still have a connectivity problem. That sounds contradictory. It is not. Imagine a service with a modern fibre connection, strong download speeds…
Care Circle Network Intelligence Insight Care Circle Network analysis of England’s adult social care market has identified a striking gap between the rating people see and the age of the…
Something important is happening at the boundary between health and social care. A care worker helps someone monitor their blood glucose. Another supports wound or pressure-area care. A home-care worker…
A care provider can do a great many things correctly and still suffer a serious cyber incident. Its employees can use strong passwords. Multi-factor authentication can be enabled. Devices can…
It is 6.15am. The night team tries to open the digital care record. Nothing loads. The electronic medication system is unavailable. The rota cannot be accessed. Email is down. The…
There are moments when a sector can feel that the political conversation around it has genuinely changed. Adult social care may have reached one. On 29 July, the Prime Minister…