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7 Tips you Need to Know about Residential Care Planning
In the world of residential care planning, there are a number of tips, tricks and pieces of advice which can take the quality...
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How Personalised Plans are Empowering Care Teams
Electronic care planning isn’t just improving the lives of those in care, it’s improving the lives of those working in care too. Personalised...
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Care planning 101 – What are care plans and what is the purpose of care planning?
When it comes to understanding care planning sometimes its best to start at the beginning. That’s why we’ve designed this Care Planning 101 series...
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5 Ways to improve mental health and well-being in elderly care homes
The UK’s population is growing rapidly, and the over 60s make up over 20% of us. With people living longer, there is expected...
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Managing and Assessing Sleep Quality
Nourish’s Head of Customer Experience, Daniel Hollingworth, talks about the importance of a good night’s sleep, and what can be done to improve...
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How a more efficient care management system can boost CQC ratings
The CQC is starting to recognise the importance of technology within social care and is actively pushing the benefits of a number of...
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Community Integrated Care: “This really is the future of social care”
Community Integrated Care is one of the UK’s largest health and social care charities. Working in the community, they deliver life-enhancing support to people...
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Electronic Care Planning: Is It Really That Much Quicker?
As a previous care home manager, our Head of Customer Experience, Dan, knows first-hand what impact electronic care planning has on care and...
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Positive and person-centred care – what the experts say
As you may have already seen, we’ve developed a close working relationship with former CQC inspector Anne Weston. Anne is now part of...
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The Top 10 Essential Care Planning Tips – According To an Ex-CQC Inspector
We spoke to Anne Weston from RHW and asked her what she would say the, “Top 10 essential care planning tips care providers...
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The Retired and Ageing: is social capital an untapped potential?
The retired and ageing hold two invaluable commodities time and knowledge. With employment, affordable housing and free university education, the older generation accumulated...
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Electronic Care Management: Top 5 Questions Answered
Now working with over 500 care providers across the UK, we’ve been lucky to meet with so many fantastic organisations that are looking...
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New CQC Assessment Framework – 5 Minutes With Anne Weston
In November, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) introduced a new assessment framework and announced that the provider information return (PIR) will be replaced...
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Five Top Tips for Digital Transformation
As a whole, the care sector is yet to fully embrace the power of Digital Transformation and all of the benefits that can offer....
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What To Look For In Your Next Care Home Software Purchase
When looking for care home software, regardless of what it’s intended function you need to purchase the right solution for you requirements. Just...
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Care Planning 101 – How can you improve your care planning and recording?
Get to grips with the fundamentals of care plans and care recording. This post in our Care Planning 101 series covers how you...
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Care Planning 101 – Getting to grips with KLOEs
The care sector is crammed full of different acronyms all of which clamour for your attention as a care provider. One of the...
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How Much Could You Save With A Care Management System?
Discover the benefits that care providers using Nourish have experienced since using our innovative care management software, such as increasing 1-to-1 resident care...
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The 5 Key Areas Care Providers Need To Focus on To Be Compliant
Over the past few years we’ve formed a close working relationship with former CQC inspector Anne Weston. Anne is now is part of...
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Designing for home care
This post is by Mabel Lazzarin a User Experience (UX) designer from Nourish who focuses on developing the technology we use for use in...
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The Top 12 Mistakes Poor Care Plans Make and How To Avoid Them
If you work in care you will probably spend a great deal of time carefully planning and organising your care plans and pathways....
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What are the 10 Dignity Do’s and dignity champions?
We all understand the importance of valuing and respecting those we care for, when we speak about how you can truly deliver dignity...
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Integrated Person-Centred Care Planning: Beyond The Buzzwords
Let’s face it, when you work in care there can seem to be an overwhelming number of different buzzwords, jargon and acronyms involved in...
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The Top Ten Reasons to Adopt an Electronic Care Planning System
At Nourish we’ve always been about developing better ways to care and empowering people who care, so they can provide the best outcomes...
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Helping you understand Mental Capacity Assessments – when, why and who should do them?
At first glance mental capacity assessments and the Mental Capacity Act can seem fairly daunting concepts to get to grips with. However, the...
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Care Planning: Framing Person-hood to manage Frailty, Needs and Wants
At Nourish we don’t take the typical path when it comes to care plans. Rather than telling care providers how they ‘should’ go...
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Why care plans are at the heart of Nourish
At Nourish there are a number of principles that guide our work. Firstly we understand the importance of planning in care, which is...
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How quick can a care home go online with Nourish?
When we first went into a care home with Nourish, it took a couple of days to get users online. But time has...
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Integrated Care: Its All About the Person
At the King’s Fund event on integrated care for older people with frailty this week it was encouraging to see engagement from so...
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Stories of care: what are you going to do that is going to make a difference?
Care is full of challenges, and requires commitment, bravery and compassion. Care often comes with preconceptions, and sometimes it is wonderful to see... Read full post
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Introducing: Integrated Care Plans and Mobile Working
Personalisation, co-ordination, and communication are challenging, both for care providers and for families. Without the right tools in place to support these processes,...
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The Future of Integrated Care in Care Homes
Primary care is central to managing good quality care for an ageing population. Whether living independently or in care homes, older people with...
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Creating Caring Communities: the Role of Care Providers
Engaged communities improve care quality and deliver benefits to families, those receiving and proving care. And whilst this sounds obvious, councils, care agencies...
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