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Government is to drop the planned excellence award for social care providers
Social care providers’ excellence award to be ditched
The government is to drop the planned excellence award for social care providers after it was universally rejected by the sector.
Care Quality Commission chair Jo Williams said today she saw no prospect of the scheme going ahead after it had receievd a “universal thumbs down” by providers’ bodies and organisations such as the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services in a CQC consultation that closed last month.
FREE social networking website backed by the NHS
Help at hand for the housebound
- by Helen Rae, Evening Chronicle
- Sep 19 2011
HEALTH Reporter Helen Rae explains how an NHS backed website is improving care for patients.
A FREE social networking website backed by the NHS is improving care for housebound patients and their carers.
Justvisiting.com is a not-for-profit website which is built around a secure interactive message board which creates online visiting rooms where hospital and housebound patients and their carers can meet up and talk to their friends and family.
GMC says more support needed for overseas doctors in UK
16 September 2011 Last updated at 01:16
“Being a doctor in the UK requires much more that just clinical expertise. It is also important to have highly developed communications skills, knowledge of UK medical ethics and culture, and an understanding of how the NHS works.
By Adam Brimelow Health Correspondent, BBC News
It says those trained under different cultural and professional standards need more support.
