Why care homes should be open all hours

by Peter Ellis | Jun 27, 2022 | Blogs

This week is #CareHomeOpenWeek a week in which care homes are encouraged to throw open their doors and let people in to see the work that they do. At Careis, we believe every day should be an open day…. but what do we...

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Effective Informed Consent is Not a One-Off Event 1

by Peter Ellis | Jun 23, 2022 | Blogs

Everything we do in social care relies on someone, usually the service user, providing their informed consent. Looking at various forums and having discussed this issue with many nursing and care staff over the years, it is...

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Consent step-by-step – CQC Fundamental Standards 3

by Peter Ellis | Jun 12, 2022 | Blogs

It is one of the odd things in social care that everyone knows that consent is a fundamental element of good practice and forms the cornerstone of everything we do, but people have, in general, very widely differing views and...

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Clear Record Keeping 1: Why do I have to write it down?

by Peter Ellis | May 26, 2022 | Compliance, Blogs

Perhaps the biggest pain that registered managers in any service suffer is that of trying to get staff to engage in record keeping and to do so in real time. As a senior carer or manager, perhaps you have had more junior staff...

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Nurses: why social care is the greatest career choice 1

by Peter Ellis | May 12, 2022 | Uncategorized

As a nurse, one of the questions I am frequently asked by other nurses is “why would you want to work in social care?”. Well after more than 30 years as a qualified nurse and having worked in the acute sector,...

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