The costs of building care homes has suffered a dramatic impact from the rates of galloping inflation.

Simon recently sat down with Nick Martin, to understand how the construction landscape is changing and how the sector can mitigate against spiralling costs.

Nick is the Principal Owner of Aedifice Partnership.

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Why should we focus on pain when addressing ‘challenging behaviour’?

To discuss this important topic, Simon spoke with Kreshnik Hoti.

As a pain management expert and the senior research scientist at PainChek, Kreshnik has extensive knowledge on this subject.

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Interested in learning about leadership from the Chief Executive of The Brendoncare Foundation?

Simon and Marianne Wanstall recently recorded an episode of the Leadership Insights podcasts.

In this series, Simon asks leaders of care organisations 14 questions about leadership.

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How are the Sanctuary Care team enriching the lives of their residents?

Simon recently spoke with Sarah Clarke-Kuehn, Chief Operating Officer, and Chris Poole, a Director of Sanctuary Care about their ‘Enriching Lives’ initiative.

And asked these questions:

- Please tell us about enriching lives and what this means at Sanctuary Care?

- What are the key principles of enriching lives and what does this mean in a care home environment?

- What is the impact for the residents and their families?

- How does the framework impact your teams and the daily running of the homes?

- Looking into the future, do you believe there will be a great emphasis on happiness in care?

- In summary what are the five whys of enriching lives within the care home environment?

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In this panel discussion, Simon Parker is joined by Caroline Southgate, Managing Director of Doris Jones, Rav Sekhon, Operations Director of Balance Care and Antony Hall, Director of Insights, Assurance and Governance at HC-One.

The four discuss the CQC's new inspection approach, comparing it to their previous models, and how it will affect different aspects of Social Care (Home Care and Care Homes).

To join more conversations like this, you can register to the Care Leaders Network below:

www.careleadersnetwork.co.uk

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Simon Parker recently had a conversation with Antony Hall, Director of Insights, Assurance and Governance at HC-One and Paul Johnson, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer at Radar Healthcare, where they explored the answer to this question:

How can data be used to improve the lives of your residents?

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What on earth is going on with the CQC?

This is a question being echoed by social care leaders around England currently.

To help explore what we do and don’t know at this stage I recently had a chat with Samantha Guest, Lawyer at Ridouts Professional Services Ltd.

In our conversation we cover the following topics:

Draft inspection reports

Evidence categories

The biggest risks to Providers

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