Digital Social Care Helpline
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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.
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
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.
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
26th February 2021
Liverpool FC Foundation Delivers Joy To Care Sector
Liverpool FC Foundation brought joy to 200 people who receive care and support in Liverpool, teaming up with the…
26th February 2021
Spring has Sprung at Wigmore Care Home
With the Daffodils starting to bloom and the temperature hitting double figures, it certainly feels like spring is on…
26th February 2021
Why I changed my mind about having the Covid vaccine
Nina Hines is Deputy Local Service Manager at two of Sanctuary Supported Living’s young people’s services in Swale,…
24th February 2021
Care Home Staff Overjoyed to Receive Vaccine
With all of our residents and staff across our care homes having been offered their first dose of the Covid-19…
24th February 2021
From Surbiton with Love: Residents enjoy James Bond Day at Royal Star & Garter
Staff had a licence to thrill when Royal Star & Garter put on a James Bond Day for residents at its Surbiton…
23rd February 2021
Beating COVID to celebrate landmark birthdays
There was double cause for celebration at The Fremantle Trust recently with Barbara Wood celebrating her 101st…