Proactive health and social care

17/04/2025

NHS rolls out incredible robot surgeries for everything from hernias to hip operations

NHS surgeons will increasingly sit at computer consoles guiding mechanical arms, as robotic surgery is rolled out for routine operations across the health service

10/04/2025

The Care Certificate standards have been updated. Link to the new standards https://www.skillsforcare.org.uk/resources/documents/Developing-your-workforce/Care-Certificate/Care-Certificate-Standards/Care-Certificate-standards-March-2025.pdf?

03/01/2025

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jan/02/huddersfield-national-health-innovation-centre-nhs?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

First building to open at Huddersfield’s National Health Innovation Centre is named after NHS’s first black matron

02/01/2025

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cold-weather-and-health-supporting-vulnerable-people

This information aims to assist professionals in protecting vulnerable people from the health impacts of cold weather in England.

01/01/2025

How nursing staff can balance skin health, appropriate glove use and infection prevention and control

01/01/2025

06/12/2024

https://proactivehealthandsocialcare.co.uk/2024/11/29/one-day-bespoke-training/

04/12/2024

https://proactivehealthandsocialcare.co.uk/2024/11/29/skills-for-care-update-delegated-healthcare-activities-guidance/

02/12/2024

Urgent warning issued over spread of deadly ‘bleeding eyes’ virus after 15 die

People travelling between the UK and Africa have been given a stark warning by Travel Health Pro to be careful after cases of deadly diseases Marburg, Mpox and Oropuche continue to rise

29/11/2024

https://proactivehealthandsocialcare.co.uk/2024/11/29/assisted-dying-bill-backed-by-mps/

In a landmark decision, Members of Parliament in Great Britain have voted in favor of a bill that would legalise assisted dying for terminally ill adults. The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, introduced by Labour MP Kim Leadbeater, passed its second reading in the House of Commons with a ma...

28/11/2024

https://www.cqc.org.uk/about-us/improving-how-we-work/taking-urgent-action-increase-number-our-assessments?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2yZCly0R7X7gisiuIVKE03bu4L2FGaeQ-_C_oOyNS-dNISjvxLMSgvBNg_aem_ilqiVfCkYCfKfZKotHnRgw

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27/11/2024

Delegated healthcare activities updated

https://www.skillsforcare.org.uk/resources/documents/Support-for-leaders-and-managers/Managing-a-service/Delegated-healthcare-activities/Delegated-healthcare-activities-guiding-principles-November-2024.pdf?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2jMjgZbhF9Gb3X6OyIYDwaIC4GonNsLVD2mLLpyh0FaAZFCXJ39rXqLxI_aem_QNNP2kEgp_o7HAkCsNx06A