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What is the Healthcare Support Worker Code of Conduct and how can it help? 

The Code of Conduct for Healthcare Support Workers and Adult Social Care Workers has been designed to ensure a high standard of care and patient safety is maintained.  
Understanding the Code of Conduct  
The Code of Conduct will give you the reassurance that you are providing safe and compassionate care of a high standard, and the confidence to challenge others who are not. This Code will also tell the public and those using health and care services exactly what they should expect from Healthcare Support Workers and Adult Social Care Workers in England. 
The Code ensures you can:  

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What the Code of Conduct means for you

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The Code of Conduct in Action

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The Code of Conduct Employer Guide

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The Code of Conduct

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Code of Conduct for Healthcare Support Workers and Adult Social Care Workers

The Code of Conduct sets the standard of conduct expected of healthcare support workers and adult social care workers. It outlines the behaviour and attitudes that you should expect to experience from those workers signed up to the code. It helps them to provide safe, guaranteed care and support. The Code of Conduct is voluntary but it is seen as a sign of best practice. Guidance documents to help you understand or implement the Code of Conduct are also available:
The Code of Conduct for Healthcare Support Workers and Adults Social Care workers is commonly used alongside the Care Certificate …

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Person-Centred Care: What it means and why it matters 

… code of conduct. There’re multiple codes of conduct for healthcare in the UK, including codes for healthcare support workers, adult social care workers, and healthcare professionals. They’re designed to create a standard of performance which ensures the care provided is respectful, fair, non-judgemental and non-prejudicial. The code ensures each individual providing care is aware of their responsibility to a person’s health and welfare. An important aspect of the code of conduct is the definition of an individual’s accountability for the professional care they provide.  
Person-centred care to improve the quality of healthcare
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Spotlight on General Practice Nursing: Identifying key training priorities

… Confident in lone working, sometimes in unpredictable situations, and making autonomous decisions, sometimes without recourse to immediate back-up.
As care is usually provided alone in the consultation room, practice nursing staff must place a greater emphasis on quality assurance and quality monitoring to demonstrate the quality, value, and outcomes of their service as it is not immediately apparent as within a hospital setting.
Risk assessment and management strategies for working with patients with a range of conditions managed in a variety of environments.
Adherence to relevant codes of conduct and ability to interpret the codes in the context of …

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CQC in Care Homes: Providers Call for Stronger Regulation

… The latter will mean focused inspections for hospitals and primary medical services and targeted inspections for adult care homes, as happens normally. “We may receive information, either from an external source or through our conversation, that results in serious concerns about actual or possible avoidable significant harm, abuse, or breaches of human rights.
       
“In which case, we will assess the risks involved and decide to either provide additional sources of support, arrange a follow-up call [or] use inspection and enforcement processes.”
– CQC
CQC will be reporting on the number of inspections conducted at their public board meetings. Nevertheless, whilst …

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The importance of quality assurance auditing  

… for Health carry out focus on four core areas.  
Quality of education – Examining how training content, delivery, and learning resources align with healthcare sector needs. This includes assessing whether courses are accessible, evidence-based, and adaptable to evolving industry requirements. We’ll evaluate whether your training meets the different needs of learners and levels of competence and knowledge of your trainers and staff.  

Behaviours and attitudes – Ensuring the right behaviours are present to deliver a quality training experience. This can include professional conduct, ethical decision-making, and the right mindset for healthcare professionals. 
Personal development – Evaluating how organisations support ongoing …

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Guidance released from Skills for Health and HEE on CSTF training during Covid-19

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To train your staff at pace on the 4 key subjects as per this new guidance, get in touch today.
The Core Skills Training Framework (CSTF), launched in 2013 by Skills for Health, aims to enable consistency by providing guidance on minimum standards, including refresher periods, of required core statutory and mandatory education and training and is used widely across the NHS.
All subjects and learning outcomes within the CSTF are based on national guidance and legislation. Health Education England, working in partnership with Skills for Health, have conducted a review of the minimum requirements for …