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| | | | | Events | Hilton Brighton Metropole23rd November 201110:00 - 16:00Viscount Suite
Kings Road
Brighton
East Sussex
BN1 2FU
Care Roadshow is your one stop shop for the latest innovations in the care industry. If you work in this sector you’ll understand just how important it is for you and your staff to have access to the latest information, products and services. The Roadshow will provide you with unique access to companies and speakers who are dedicated to helping your business stand out from the pack What's On? | Care Roadshow, Brighton is packed full of exciting and informative activities that are free for visitors to get involved with.
See below to find out whats going on throughout the day and which companies you can meet.
| Workshop |  | | 10.30am-1.00pm: 'Come to Tea’ – promoting well being outcomes Zoe Farrell and Sylvie Silver, NAPA The highly respected NAPA team will deliver ‘Come to Tea’ a fast paced and interactive learning event promoting physical activity, eating well and feeling good for Care Home residents. Participate in thought provoking activities, quizzes and games. Take away stimulating ideas and free resources, and Certificates of attendance will be available. Prizes for participants include smoothie-makers, free training materials and Activity ideas folders. The team bring you the latest news from a nationally funded project bringing together guidelines on excellence in care home, best practice volunteering, and the advice from the Chief Medical Officer is of interest to Care Home Managers, Caterers, Activity Organisers and other care professionals.
If you are planning to attend this workshop please ensure that you also email zoe@napa-activities.org.uk with roadshow in the subject line giving your name, organisation and the event (Care Roadshow, Brighton) you have registered for. This enables the NAPA team to bring the correct number of the free resources to give you. | | Seminars | | | 2pm: CQC - The Regulatory Experience
Sandra Eismann and Elaine Green, CQC
CQC is the independent regulator of health and adult social care in England. This seminar will cover CQC's current methodology and processes and issues that CQC is delivering information on.
This seminar will look at:
- the development of the regulatory model
- the focus on people's experience and outcomes
- the use of intelligence to monitor compliance with standards
| | | |  | | 3pm: Essential or Excellent? How can technology help you go beyond the essential standards?
Toby Hart, MD of SimplyUnite Excellence in care provision – How do top tier providers achieve it?
Find out how modern technology can be used to deliver excellent care to your service users. Improve the quality of life for residents by helping them maintain relationships with family and friends and offer meaningful and enjoyable activities. At the same time you can benefit from an improved working environment for your staff.
A non-technical presentation from a leading provider to the care home sector. |
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apetito
With 50 years experience we have the expertise to partner you in creating an individual approach to food for your care home. We appreciate that every care home is different and understand the challenges catering within care homes; we provide great tasting food and a system that is efficient, cost beneficial, labour saving and space sensitive. apetito is also a leading supplier in the UK Community Meals and Healthcare markets and is at the forefront of frozen food innovation. We aim to provide our customers with the best quality, most nutritious food and to support them with innovative product, system and service developments.
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Blue Parrot Software
The Everyday Care System is a purpose designed care management system for residential and nursing care homes but also for adults homes with mental disabilities or learning difficulties. We have over 300 homes in the UK using the ECS solution and that number is expanding all the time. The ECS system is the reference solution in the United Kingdom and over the years, has introduced some of the most advance technology to the care industry.
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Care Monitoring 2000
Come and visit our stand to find out more!
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Care Professionals Benevolent Fund
The Care Professionals Benevolent Fund is the registered charity for the care industry. We are here to support current and former care workers who have fallen on hard times through no fault of their own. If you are unable to work for any reason or you are working but struggling to make ends meet then we may be able to help. The CPBF can offer grants that help to clear debts, help with day-to-day living costs or help to purchase essential items that will improve quality of life. The CPBF can also put you in touch with debt advice specialists and give you advice and guidance on the availability of government funding and other charitable funding.
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Care Talk
Care Talk is the new magazine in the social care sector; "Celebrating and embracing the voice of care and the people within the industry". With an audience of over 30,000 recipients it goes to the heart of the care sector. Born out of the need to hear good news and relevant information celebrating the actions and hard work within the sector. Care Talk will act as a media platform to promote The Great British Care Awards, a series of 9 regional awards ceremonies throughout England for the care sector. Care Talk and the awards offer exclusive advertising and sponsorship opportunities, maximising your company’s exposure to sector and media partners.
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East Sussex, Brighton & Hove Registered Care Homes Association (RCHA)
Come and visit our stand to find out more!
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Essex Guardians
Essex Guardians specialises in managing money matters for people who no longer have the mental capacity to do so on their own. Its services include collecting and maximising state benefits, paying bills, looking after savings and investments and overseeing property and personal items. Essex Guardians can assist care home managers who are currently handling their clients’ personal finances by removing conflict of interest and freeing up workloads.
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Firecomply
Firecomply provide fire risk assessments, audits, project budgets for remedial action, fire safety engineering design work, evacuation planning, emergency planning and fire safety training. We work throughout the UK with a wide range of sectors and have an exceptional track record of delivering high quality services whilst helping our clients keep safe, comply with legislation and save costs. Our assessors are all fully qualified former fire officers with extensive knowledge of fire dynamics and legislation. To find out more about our services and the competitive rates we can offer you please come along and speak to us on stand 38 - we look forward to meeting you.
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Germstar Hygiene
Germstar UK is pioneering the use of ‘smart’ touchless hand sanitiser and soap dispensers as a key weapon in vital care home infection control programmes. The Independent Living Group (ILG) is among the many organisations installing Germstar dispensers. Germstar users just have to place a hand under the infrared, motion-activated dispenser to receive a measured dose of sanitising liquid rinse capable of killing 99.9 per cent of bacteria, viruses and fungus.
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Lloydspharmacy Managed Care
Lloydspharmacy Managed Care provides safe, secure and efficient systems for administering medicines and supports you in maintaining best practice standards. Working in close partnership with you and your team, we’ll establish the needs of your care home and support you and your staff meet current guidelines for handling medicines.
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NAPA
Come and visit our stand to find out more!
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Niko Projects Bloom care technology, developed by Niko Projects, offers one single powerful solution integrating nurse call and electronic care registration as well as direct integration into your administrative software solutions. The bloom Stations, the central hubs of the system, are installed in all resident rooms and communal areas and may also be used for home automation, such as the operation of sun blinds and lights.
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Opus Pharmacy Services
Opus Pharmacy Services are the experts in accredited medication training for the care sector. With pharmacist trainers based throughout the UK, Opus can meet the training needs of all care settings including residential, domiciliary (including personal assistants), extra care, supported living, learning disabilities, children’s services, prisons, schools, adult placements and foster care.
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Pulse
PULSE Community Healthcare was launched as a dedicated division of the PULSE Healthcare Limited group to deliver a flexible care package service provision in line with the recommendations of the White Paper “Our Health, Our Care, Our Say”. Since our launch we have become renowned for effectively managing outcomes-based packages of care and support to enable individuals to live within their communities for as long and as independently as possible.
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SimplyUnite
SimplyUnite fully supports customers to enhance the lives of residents and staff by keeping them better connected using email, Skype, internet and screen based entertainment. Gem is a touch screen service which is stimulating, engaging and fun. It comes with a support service to ensure that customers benefit from SimplyUnite expertise and knowledge and get the very best from their investment.
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Solinium
Solinium is a solar logistics company with a difference; we don't just supply and fit solar PV installations but offer a complete turnkey solution. Working with the industry’s leading manufacturers, we provide the best high performance solar PV systems, carefully designed, installed and maintained for each client’s specific requirements; ensuring maximum efficiency and return of investment. There’s never been a better time to invest in solar PV for your house or business premises, as you can literally earn money from your own roof. With the government's introduction of the Feed In Tariff (FiT) you could be generating returns of at least 9-12% per annum over the next 25 years. Visit our stand to find out how you can get paid for being green!
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TEAL Patents
To solve the problem of hand hygiene, TEAL make a comprehensive range of fully portable hot water handwash units dedicated to the Care Sector. Convenient and simple to use, TEAL units need no plumbing.
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The Stroke Association
The Stroke Association is the only charity solely concerned with helping everyone affected by stroke across the UK. We are working for a world where there are fewer strokes and all those touched by stroke get the help they need. Please come and visit our exhibition stand to get more information about the training courses we offer to those caring for people affected by stroke. Also, you could find how you could nominate a care professional for a 2012 Life After Stroke Award.
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Wightman & Parrish
W&P is a leading UK distributor of healthcare and hygiene products to care and residential homes. They also provide an extensive range of services including, C.O.S.H.H. training, healthcare equipment servicing and repairs. At the Brighton care roadshow W&P will be exhibiting Diversey’s innovative chemical dispensing and dosing systems. Designed to cut housekeeping costs, reduce waste and protect workers their products deliver improved cleaning results. W&P recognises the demands faced in maintaining a healthy environment at work. Whether it is through housekeeping, laundry, or ensuring staff and clients are safe in the workplace, W&P can assist you with our range of quality services.
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Zest Care Systems
Fusion by Zest Care Systems is easy to operate internet based Staff Management software solution developed for specific use in the Care Sector. The software cuts administration time therefore increasing speed and profitability. With up to date management reporting and multi home data and analysis you can keep full control of your employee’s time management.
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| | Webinars | This year we will be running a series of webinars. It is a great way for you to have a two way conversation with one of our consultants. You can have a full software presentation without leaving your desk. | | Mattresses | At the end of last year we saw the release of exciting new additions to the comprehensive fleet of mattresses already available. Full details here soon of the MRSA and bug resistant mattresses. We now have some details of the new range of mattresses and will be posting them shortly. | | Software | ECS SOFTWARE The new updates have been released, this update includes the Mental Capacity Act. We are working on the the exciting new eMAR (Electronic Medication Administration Records), the i-Croner content and a few other bits and pieces. more>> | | | Feedback If there are any suggestions that you would like to make, any products that we do not have on our site that would be of use to you etc. please let us know. Go to our 'contact us' page and send us an email. | | | | | |
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