NCF is the membership organisation for not-for-profit organisations in the care and support sector. NCF supports its 130 members to improve social care provision and enhance the quality of life, choice, control and wellbeing of people who use care services.
LESS COVID
Findings from research into the experiences of frontline care home and NHS staff caring for older people with COVID-19 in the first few months of the pandemic. In conjunction with University of Leeds.
Call to action: Care home visiting
National lockdown must not include locking out care home visitors. A coalition of over 60 organisations led by NCF has sent an open letter to Matt Hancock, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, and Helen Whately, Minister for Care, calling on the government to ensure that care homes are supported to enable visits by families and loved ones, now and in the future.
IPC Compliance Assessment Tool
This tool has been developed using the most recent information from CQC and others. It will help you know how well you are doing, identify areas in which you need to improve and bring the guidance together into one place
Caring in Covid
To help record and highlight the incredible response of carers during the pandemic, we are bringing together these Caring Heroes stories in the form of an ebook
Covid Checklist
NCF has launched a checklist guide to help those choosing a care home setting to navigate decisions during Covid-19
How to prepare for a flu and Covid outbreak this winter guide
Quality Compliance Systems (QCS) and the National Care Forum (NCF) produce exclusive guidance to help providers tackle a ‘double-whammy’ of flu and Covid this winter.
Resources to help digital enabling
NCF has develop a series of simple practical resources (15 crib sheets) to help providers, big and small, make the best use of digital technology for their residents and staff in a COVID-19 World
The Hubble Project: Digital Innovation Hubs
NCF is running a series of virtual digital innovation hubs offering care providers the chance to learn how others have introduced, used and evaluated a range of digital technology to improve care
Recent news
COVID-19 Winter Plan Score Card: Science 10 – Maths 0
Vic Rayner, Executive Director at the National Care Forum, the leading association the not-for-profit social care providers, writes: The social care…
Marr Procurement donated all of its PPE profits back to 14 Social Care organisations including 6 charities
The recent headlines from the National Audit Office report has revealed the profiteering that characterised the rush to supply PPE to the Social Care…
Quantum Care Homes Recognised for their Outstanding Achievement
Staff in Quantum Care homes across Hertfordshire were delighted to receive Outstanding Achievement Awards at the…
A social care charity is celebrating after receiving news of a bumper crop of award shortlistings.
Warrington-based Making Space and its staff are in the running for 26 national and regional awards, including five…
Bucks care worker surprised with special award to celebrate 40 years of service
Brenda Dawson has worked for charity care provider Ambient Support and its predecessors for 40 years as a care…
Resident at Bernard Sunley Care Home proves you’re never too old to challenge yourself
Brian Moore, a resident at Bernard Sunley, the Woking care home run by charity Friends of the Elderly, has been…
