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 January 2021
Vaccine take up in care homes
The National Care Forum have carried out a snapshot survey across 750 homes in England over the 25th and 26th January 2021. The survey asked about…
26th January 2021
Haggis and bagpipes as Royal Star & Garter veterans celebrate Burns Night
The sound of bagpipes and smell of haggis filled the air at Royal Star & Garter as residents celebrated Burns…
26th January 2021
Lateral Flow Device (LFD) Testing Guidance
Confused about care home LFD tests? Download our FREE guidance Lateral Flow Device (LFD) testing in care homes is…
25th January 2021
apetito pilots rapid COVID testing with the Department of Health & Social Care and Defra
As Government rolls out asymptomatic testing for people unable to work from home, apetito, the leading meals provider…
25th January 2021
Quantum Care Home Shows Support for their NHS Colleagues
Staff from Belmont View care home in Hoddesdon donated treats last week to their NHS colleagues at nearby Princess…
25th January 2021
Newsletter January 2021
This time last year I had just started to work seriously on setting up Standards Wise International (SWI) and was…