Medication
Paper MAR vs. eMAR vs. EMM - What's Best for Your Care Home?
The purpose of the article is to help care homes choose the best medication management system for their needs.
Clive Dominick
Clients
12 Strategies for More Clients for Home Care and Domiciliary Care providers
This post discusses about several strategies that home care agencies can use to attract more clients.
Person centered care
What are the 5 Care Standards?
These CareSstandards are often used to guide the delivery of health and social care services, and they may be used by regulators, accrediting bodies, and other organisations to assess the quality of care provided by a particular facility, care provider or organisation.
What are the 6C's of Care
The 6 C's of care are a set of values that were developed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), which is the independent regulator of health and social care services in England. What are they and what do they mean?
Niti Jashvir
Carers
What is the Care Certificate?
Electronic or Paper MAR Charts
The debate continues. Whats your opinion?
Hitesh Jashvir
Person centred care
Guide: What does person-centred care mean? What are the benefits? How to implement person-centred care? What are the challenges? Regulation 9: Person-centred care Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014: Regulation 9
Digital tools for adult social care providers
How to leverage digital tools effectively for adult social care
Any care recording system with real-time alerts and care notes will only be as good as the person entering the information. We have quality carer training and induction programs to help ensure that your organisation can leverage the digital tools effectively.
Legisalation
Understanding the Care Act 2014: Key Provisions and Implications
The 2014 Care Act is the law that sets out how adult social care in England should be provided. The main principle of the Care Act 2014 is to help to improve people's independence and well-being and for care providers and givers to promote a person-centered approach to the care and support they provide.
Streamline Your Operations
Mobile suite for all your care teams: carer, on-call, coordinators, clinicians, medication safety officers, and management ensures you will optimise all operations effectively as the mobile suites synchronises with the cloud base management portal.
CQC
9 Strategies for Navigating the Inspection Process
There are many challenges that a care provider may face during an inspection by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). 9 of the biggest challenges are explained here.
5 Ways Electronic Medications Management Systems Increase Patient Safety
How long does a typical CQC Inspection last for?
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is responsible for inspecting and regulating health and social care services in England. This includes independent adult social care providers, which are organizations that provide care and support to adults with disabilities or other needs.
What action can the CQC enforce against a care provider?
The CQC enforcement against a care provider can involve criminal enforcement action if they fail to meet prosecutable fundamental standards.
Strategies to Deliver Outstanding Care
Going Above and Beyond: How to Achieve an Outstanding Rating from the Care Quality Commission. Here are some ways that an independent adult social care provider can evidence that it has met the standards listed in the previous message during an inspection
CQC Key lines of enquiry, prompts and ratings
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is an independent regulator of health and social care services in England. The CQC uses a set of fundamental standards to guide its inspections of independent adult social care providers and ensure that care is safe, effective, compassionate, and high quality. Here are some further steps that independent adult social care providers can take to meet each of the fundamental standards:
How CQC Inspectors Assess Quality of Care
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is an independent regulator of health and social care services in England. that inspects and regulates independent adult social care providers The CQC uses a set of fundamental standards to guide its inspections, which set out the minimum standards that all care providers must meet in order to be registered.
Checklist
eMAR Checklist FAQs
Over the last 5 years, we have been asked many questions about electronic MAR Charts systems by care providers actively look the process to transform from paper to digital medication systems. We have compiled the most common questions and responses here for you.
Bhavik Jashvir
Action Plan
Details of The 9-Step Digital Care Records Implementation Plan
The implementation plan covers a comprehensive step-by-step plan to onboard Care Teams.
What are the 7R's of Medication Administration
A simple explanation of the 7 R's of Medication Administration?
Time Sensitive Medications
It's important to be aware of the specific timing requirements for different medications, as taking them at the wrong time can affect their effectiveness or even lead to adverse events.
The 9-Step Digital Care Records Transformation Plan
A quality carer training and induction programme will ensure that your organisation can leverage the digital tools combined to create the Ultimate Care Recording And Monitoring System.
Electronic Medication: PRN's, Topical, Creams and Sprays
A comprehensive solution to managing the administration and recording for PRN's, Creams, Topical Medication, Sprays and Patches integrated into the Rostering module of the CareSuccess all in one suite.
Empower Your Care Team with CareSuccess's Advanced EMMS
Streamline, Transform and Effortlessly Manage Your Medication Management with CareSuccess by Improving Patient Safety and Eliminating Medication Errors
6 CQC Offenses every care provider should know about
CQC offenses: What every care provider needs to know. Stay compliant with the CQC: A guide to avoiding common offenses
Whitepaper
Lessons that domiciliary care can learn from Thomas Cook
‘Go digital or go under’ may sound like a stark ultimatum but the recent liquidation of Thomas Cook proves there is truth in it. With a 22,000-strong workforce and a 178-year heritage, the case of Thomas Cook proves there is no such thing as being so big that your business can’t fail by ignoring the rapid march of digitalisation.
Overwhelmed by the demand for Evidence for your Home Care Visits? Here’s a solution.
Every Care Quality Commission (CQC) Inspection is primarily an Evidence-gathering exercise. Speaking to one inspector and CQC Specialist Advisor (SpA), I was told that “if it isn’t written down then it never happened”. That’s the stark reality of running a domiciliary care agency today. It can be overwhelming.
INTEGRATION WITH NHS DM+D: IMPROVING MEDICATION ACCURACY
Announcement: CareSuccess integrates with the Nhs medicines database to help reduce medication errors and has integrated a client medication rostering module into its advanced applications.
