Assessing Competence: How to Shadow New Staff
20.07.21 SHADOWING & COMPETENCY ASSESSMENT OF NEW STAFF Shadowing and Competency Assessment of New Staff As part of the OPUS […]
Safeguarding Issues with Medicines for Care Homes
06.04.21 SAFEGUARDING ISSUES WITH MEDICINES Safeguarding Issues with Medicines for Care Homes Following the release of the new NICE guideline […]
OPUS Poster- MAR Sheet Recording Checklist
31.03.21 DOWNLOADABLE POSTER MAR Sheet Recording Checklist DOWNLOADABLE POSTER To provide staff with quick, visual reminders of key points of […]
Training Agency Staff
24.03.21 TRAINING AGENCY STAFF Training Agency Staff With many care staff working around the clock to provide care to those […]
OPUS Poster- What You Can & Can’t Do
17.03.21 DOWNLOADABLE POSTER Medicines Administration: What You Can & Can’t Do DOWNLOADABLE POSTER To provide staff with quick, visual reminders […]
Learning from Medicines Errors
16.03.21 LEARNING FROM MEDICINES ERRORS Learning from Medicines Errors during the Pandemic The Concern: Customers have been coming to us […]
How to Get the Most Impact from your Training Budget
10.03.21 USING YOUR TRAINING BUDGET EFFECTIVELY How to Use Your Training Budget Effectively With the end of the financial year […]
Reducing Medicines Errors
05.03.21 REDUCING MEDICINES ERRORS SERIES Reducing Medicines Errors Series Overview Recently we have had many customers reporting an increase in […]
OPUS Poster- 6 Rights of Administration
03.03.21 DOWNLOADABLE POSTER Downloadable Poster: 6 Rights of Administration To provide staff with quick, visual reminders of key points of […]
Medicines Training & Competency Assessments: A Handy Guide
01.03.21 HELPFUL GUIDE Medicines Training & Competency Assessments: A Handy Guide THE PROBLEM With so many staff members to different […]
Supporting You Series 6- Investing in Staff Wellbeing
6 Supporting You Series Investing in Staff Wellbeing to Improve Medicines Administration Checking in with your staff and being there […]
Supporting You Series 5- Receiving Medicines
5 Supporting You Series Receipt of Medicines Things to consider when booking in medicines at your care organisation The Issue […]
Supporting You Series 4- Upskilling Senior Staff
4 Supporting You Series Closing the Knowledge Gap: Upskilling Senior Staff How to upskill senior staff to enable them to […]
Discharge into care homes: designated settings
28.1.21 GUIDANCE UPDATE Discharge Into Care Homes: Designated Settings NEW GUIDANCE BACKGROUND Public Health England in collaboration with NHS England, […]
Supporting You Series 3- Support After A Failed Competency Assessment
3 Supporting You Series Supporting Staff Who Don’t Meet the Required Standard of Competence Can your staff spot the difference […]
Vitamin D and Care Homes Guidance
20.1.21 Vitamin D and Care Homes Guidance On 15th January 2021, the Department for Health and Social Care released new […]
Medicines Training for Schools During Lockdown 3
19.1.21 Medicines Training for ‘in School’ Staff During Lockdown 3 With many staff delivering online learning from home, off due […]
Supporting You Series 2- Simplifying Training During Lockdown 3
2 Supporting You Series Simplifying Training- What Training Do Staff Need During Lockdown 3? Care organisations often come to us confused […]
Supporting You Series 1- Dealing with Unexpected Staff Shortages
1 Supporting You Series Dealing with Unexpected Staff Shortages During the pandemic, care organisations are finding themselves with unexpected staff […]
