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‘Relational authentic leadership can be messy’

Mark Topps is a social care leader and campaigner. He is the Regional Business Manager at Essex Cares Limited, as well as Co-Founder of social care chat shows The Caring View and The...
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Using My Home Life Picture Cards in team building session to explore perspectives

Picture Cards are one of the tools used on My Home Life England programmes to start conversations. In this blog, David Unsworth, Charge Nurse at St Bartholomew’s Court, tells us how he recently...
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‘Rebuilding Together’ – Insights into how care homes coped during the pandemic

On the third anniversary of the first COVID-19 lockdown (23rd March 2020), My Home Life England shares new insights from care homes about their experiences of the pandemic.
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Quality Improvement Activity at St Bartholomew’s Court Nursing Home

On 30th March 2022, Michael Dutton, Deputy Matron of St. Bartholomew’s Court Nursing Home attended a Quality Improvement (QI) workshop as part of the My Home Life England Leadership and Development Programme...
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Using an MHLE programme to evidence Nursing CPD

Anna, a care home manager, is participating in one of our programmes at the moment. Anna used her experiences from her MHLE programme to help her think about and evidence her Nursing...
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Working with Care Home Leaders to Support Integration at Place (Sefton)

This short article describes how a group of care and health leaders have developed new ways of working together at place. The people involved have worked together, built new collaborations and created...
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Poem: “A Day in the Life” – A Home Manager’s Story

By Alena Petrie, Manager at Cambridge Court Care Home, Sefton A day in the life – A home manager’s story It is half past six, rise and shine, time to get ready...
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Homer Simpson and other QI tools have an impact at Rodney House

Following a successful QI workshop as part of their My Home Life England Leadership and Development programme, Rodney House Care Home in Liverpool kindly sent us the following update on how they...
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The FaNs Wishing Washing Line continues to bring joy to people in Essex care homes

    Celebrating 4 years of the FaNs Wishing Washing LineTM   Have you heard of the FaNs Wishing Washing Line? If not, it’s exactly what it sounds like – a washing...
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How care home teams minimised the impact of Covid-19 on people living with dementia in care homes

World Alzheimer’s Day 2022  At My Home Life England we are always learning about positive person-led approaches that support people living in care homes who have a form of dementia. We have...
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