Training in creative health practice
Interested in workforce development for creative arts, health and wellbeing practice?
Interested in workforce development for creative arts, health and wellbeing practice?
‘Care Fully Considered’ is a new podcast from hosts Laura Barnes and Katy Styles, who are both unpaid carers. The podcast features experts sharing their views on key topics relating to unpaid carers and is part of the work of the We Care Campaign. The promotion for the podcast says: “There are only three types…
Key features of effective dementia education for care staff are among the topics discussed in the World Alzheimer’s Report 2022, which comprises 119 essays across 24 chapters written by international experts. Based on research by Leeds Beckett University, which looked at dementia training in 10 provider organisations, the report considers how training can be designed,…
Charity Parkinson’s UK has launched a campaign for better training of social care staff on Parkinson’s-related dementia. Carers of people with the condition signed more than 1,200 postcards delivered to Whitehall as part of the charity’s “Nobody Really Knows Us” campaign. It urges the government to allocate some of the £500 million it has earmarked…
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has launched ‘Seeing the whole person supports better care’, a campaign to support nurses to think holistically about each person they support. The campaign includes case studies that share the experiences of nurses and a one-page PDF that provides a simple explanation of holistic support. You can find out…
The Scottish Government has announced up to £9.2m of funding over three years to augment the Support in the Right Direction (SiRD) programme, which aims to promote choice and control for people who access social care services and their families/carers. The funding will enable 33 third-sector organisations in Scotland to provide independent advice, advocacy, information and support…
The Alzheimer’s Society has used Dementia Action Week to highlight symptoms of dementia after finding, through their research, that one in ten people surveyed couldn’t name a common symptom of dementia. The survey of 2,075 UK adults was conducted on behalf of Alzheimer’s Society by Yonder between the 30 April 2025 and 1 May 2025….