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  • Home care: delivering personal care and practical support to older people living in their own homes

    NICE Guidelines Tailored resource NG 21. This guideline covers the planning and delivery of person-centred care for older people living in their own homes (known as home care or domiciliary care). It...

  • How can you influence NHS services

    Communities are being encouragesd to have a say over health & social care services. In your area members of the public are trying to influence your services. Find out here how you can listen to th...

  • How can you influence social care?

    There are members of the public in your area who have joined thier local involvement network to express thier views about the social care sector. Join a local involvement network your self to get your...

  • How Cynthia Spencer Meets Each Part of the Dignity Challenge

    Cynthia Spencer meets each part of the dignity challenge including but not limited to the below: Have a zero tolerance to all forms of abuse: Staff training Key role models Challenging inappropriate...

  • How Manchester council ensure dignity in care homes

    This document highlights what Manchester council care homes do to ensure dignity is respected and maintained in all council reun care homes.

  • How to Become a Care Worker

    Produced by Home Instead, this informative guide covers: Informal vs professional care, reasons to go into care, what skills and values do you need, what to expect as a care professional and pathways into a Career in Care

  • How to complain

    Some Dignity Champions and members of the public ask us how they can make a complaint about a service. This document will give you some basic guidelines and links as to how you can accelerate a complaint...

  • How to complain

    The Dignity in Care Campaign aims to share good practice, inevitably when raising awareness of dignity the matter of poor service is also highlighted. We are often contacted and asked how to make a formal...

  • How To Deal With Anxiety

    Article with lots or links to useful comments and advice from therapists

  • How to publicise the People's Award internally

    As people who use care services, their carers and health and social care staff are the people most likely to nominate staff for the People's Award for Dignity in Care, it is important that the awards...