"We were delighted to win the Nursing Times Nursing in Social Care Award for a project we are both passionate about. Funded by care provider Care UK and The Queen's Nursing Institute (QNI) in collaboration with Tympa Health, we researched ways to identify and treat hearing loss for people living in care homes."
Zoe Fry, a director of The Outstanding Society, has recently been honoured with an OBE for her contributions to social care and nursing. She explains how humbled she felt to receive it and the journey which brought her to this point in her latest blog.
This month sees the annual celebration of International Nurses Day on 12 May, the anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth. In difficult and uncertain times, celebrating social care nursing's amazing contribution to the health and wellbeing of our communities is more important than ever.
International Women’s Day is one of the most important awareness raising events of the year for Deborah Sturdy, Chief Nurse for Adult Social Care, not least because around 80 percent of people working in the social care profession are women...
The further embedding of delegated healthcare interventions in the care workforce represents the ongoing initiative to marry social care experience with clinical excellence to deliver enhanced, high quality and consistent care. Deborah Sturdy, Chief Nurse for Adult Social Care, and Oonagh Smyth, CEO Skills for Care give an update.
Deborah Sturdy, Chief Nurse for Adult Social Care, is pleased to be working with the Florence Nightingale Foundation to launch a new social care leadership development programme specifically for nurses from black and ethnic minority backgrounds. Find out more in her latest blog...
