Strategic planning of health and social care in North Lanarkshire

The health and social care partnership in North Lanarkshire is laying down “strong foundations” to support more integrated working, inspectors have found.
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Reducing pressure ulcers in care homes

Pressure ulcers are an unwanted complication of illness, severe physical disability or increasing frailty.
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Office closures today

The Care Inspectorate will be closing all of its offices at 15:00 today to allow staff enough time to arrange travel and get home safely.

Our contact centre will also close, so calls will not be answered.  You can still email us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.


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Blog: Improving people’s experiences of care is not an aspiration, it is a reality

By Edith Macintosh, Head of Improvement SupportEdith Macintosh

The innovator W Edwards Deming said: “Learning is not compulsory; it’s voluntary. Improvement is not compulsory; it’s voluntary. But to survive we must learn.”


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Closure of all our offices due to severe weather

Due to continuing severe weather, all our offices will close today at 15:00 to enable staff to get home safely.  This means our contact centre staff will not be available to answer calls.


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