New children’s hydration campaign launched
The Scottish Urinary Tract Infection Network (SUTIN+), which is part of Health Protection Scotland’s Community Health Protection Programme, has launched a children’s hydration campaign – Think2DrinkH20 - which aims to highlight the importance of good hydration for children and young people.
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Nutrition News Summer Edition 2019
In this edition: Summer dining; IDDSI launched; learning and development opportunities; ECHO; Continence matters; hear about the role of good hydration in improving infection control; advancing healthcare awards; introducing Kinmylies lodge; meet our residents.
To download click here.
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Blog: We want to hear about how practitioners are helping children to learn and play in an active way
The Care Inspectorate is developing a new resource with the Scottish Government to inspire and motivate those working with children to increase the opportunities for children to learn and play in an active way. We know that practitioners and providers have developed many innovative ways that help children to be active both indoors and outdoors throughout the whole day and develop positive relationships with physical activity. We'd like to hear about these examples so that we can include them in a new resource we are developing.
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Care Home Open Day 2019
It's #CareHomeOpenDay!
The focus this year is on Arts in Care.
Being involved in the creative arts provides an opportunity for people to reignite a past interest, improve their skills in a particular art, try something new, stimulate creative thinking or enjoy the social aspect that this brings.
Throughout the day we're going to share some quotes from our #artsincare resource on our social media pages. If you'd like to download a copy visit http://bit.ly/thehub-artsincare.
For more information vist http://www.carehomeopenday.org.uk
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Self-directed support
More needs to be done to fully implement self-directed support and realise its potential in supporting the transformation of social care delivery in Scotland.
That is the main finding of a report on self-directed support produced by the Care Inspectorate in partnership with Healthcare Improvement Scotland.
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