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| Training for Healthcare professionals is readily available and I would like to express my thoughts as to why healthcare providers struggle or have issues with care. One of the major problems is that care staff do not have sufficient knowledge when dealing with service users who suffer from Dementia, this lack of knowledge does not give care staff the confidence and therefore leads to issues and problems with care. However, there is training available, I provide it! The lack of training is very well documented and care providers are aware it is an issue, not just in dementia. More care is being pushed out into the community and care staff are being asked to deal with more complex issues, which with "basic" training and knowledge will go along way to improving the care for service users who are either self funding or government funded. My company offers training on a large number of specialist subjects, i am not plugging my company but only making people aware that if the care providers do not feel they need the extra training, which is what i offer, not the mandatory training/ minimum standard training, they will generally opt out of this training. For example, I have only just completed a mailshot last week to over 8000 nursing and residential care homes throughout the UK informing them of the Dementia Training which my company will be providing in 2010. This training is taught by Dementia Care Specialists, has been viewed and recommendations have been made to improve the training by the Alzheimers Society (Cathy Baldwin, Dementia Training Manager, Alzheimer's Society) and is also affordable £35 per person! I have had 3 enquiries out of 8000+ Nursing and Residential Homes who are interested in this education. What more can I do???? I work with the largest care providers in the UK and I just feel it is an uphill battle, some homes and care groups are excellent and recognise the issues and need for specialist training but for the vast majority aslong as minimum standards are met, it is sufficient. Until the likes of Dementia, Pressure Ulcer Prevention, Care Planning and Medication Administration training are included in the mandatory/ minimum standards, not a great deal will change! Thanks for reading! Chris Aitken, MD, GNCS
www.gncs.co.uk
Chris Aitken
Managing Director
GNCS Ltd
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