8th July 2020
Step by step – Social care
Regular testing in irregular times The recent announcement confirming the routine and regular…
20th May 2020
Strengthening the Ring of Steel: Reflections on The Care Home Support Package
The National Care Forum is the leading voice for not-for-profit care providers. Our Policy…
19th April 2020
#ringofsteel around care homes
On Saturday 18 April, the NCF published ground-breaking data from the independent benchmarking…
13th April 2020
Ode to the Unseen Care Worker
Low skilled they called you on before this was begun – as you cared and supported the most…
13th March 2020
Budget 2020 Roundup
On Wed 11 March, the Chancellor announced a budget with 2 distinct budgets within it; one was an…
24th February 2020
Human Rights training for residential care home staff
The British Institute of Human Rights (BIHR) is excited to be on our second year of working…
6th February 2020
Patient Hotels – the story continues…
Day 2 of the tour took us first of all to Lund in Sweden. Here we visited a Patient Hotel that had…
5th February 2020
Patient Hotels – and much more – the story so far…
Greetings from Copenhagen! I am spending a couple of days in…
4th February 2020
Putting innovation at the heart of services
Is key to driving customer wellbeing Everyone involved in…
29th January 2020
One buried hope at a time…
29/1/2020 Today, I found myself identifying with the childhood figure, Anne of Green Gables, and…