Suffolk News

According to figures from the British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey 2017, only 23% of the public said they are satisfied with social care and dissatisfaction was a whopping 41%!

Now it is important to note that these figures are not just from patients of services. I know many care providers who can boast 90+ percent approval ratings. These figures are from members of the public, many of whom will not have used services themselves but are asked to draw on ‘their own experiences, as well as experiences of their friends and family and to include opinions they have drawn from other sources such as the media.’

 

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Loneliness is a very topical issue at the moment and a lot of people are thinking, “What can I do to help?”

Our Prime Minister appointed a Minister of Loneliness in January 2018 to help combat this issue. In Suffolk alone, there are 40,000 people who feel lonely (Mike Hennessey, Suffolk Country Council Director of Adults and Community Services) , apparently there is no demographic group immune to this feeling; so our children, teenagers, parents, neighbours, friends, grand-parents

and great grandparents are vulnerable to the emotion.

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We started our business, Ocala Healthcare, in Suffolk this year. Very exciting times! It has been a huge and enjoyable learning curve.

When you dream about starting your own business, you’re not imagining reading your public liability insurance policy, you’re not imagining writing policies and you are definitely not imagining learning the ins and outs of the new data protection legislation!

You think about making the sale, doing it better than those before you and ultimately being successful!

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Becoming a home care assistant in Suffolk was one of the greatest experiences of my time in care. It allowed me to see the importance of care being delivered at home and the impact that this can have.

Having care delivered at home can be the difference between

• a couple that have not had a day apart in 60 years staying together and still not missing a day with their best friend
• or after 60 years together being separated as one of you become more and more vulnerable. The one person you want to see is restricted to visiting hours at the care home

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People often ask me, “why do you do this?” or “how did you get started in the care industry”, or the classic question “did you always want to work in care?”. I grapple with finding answers to these questions. At a young age I found myself stumbling into the industry, similarly to how I stumble with the answers to these questions. When I was at school I didn’t really know what I wanted to do, but I did know I wanted to help people.

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Back when I had a pudding bowl haircut, I never imagined that I would work in healthcare. (If you had a pudding bowl haircut, what did you want to be when you grew up? And I’m expecting to see #backwhenIhadaPudBowl trending on social media)

I thought about joining the police, or becoming an an electrician like my dad. But through all my options, I certainly never considered healthcare; I don’t like blood or needles for a start!

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So here we are again at the start of a new year! I have already made and broken my resolution, but cheese is my weakness and I will go down with that delicious cheese filled ship! Continue reading “New Year, New Me, New Job?”

Welcome to Ocala healthcare! Now read that again and imagine that John Hammond from Jurassic park was saying it and imagine those big wooden doors are opening… still with me? excellent!

I have created this little post so that those of you following us wondering what in the world does Ocala mean? What does it hope to achieve? and How can we help? can gain some answers!

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Care providers across the UK handle the most sensitive data about people from residents to employees. The GDPR is going to bring much greater scrutiny upon care providers whom are already pushed to the very limit both financially and with time management.

Under the GDPR, much of the data being stored and processed by care providers will be classed as Special Category High Risk Data, this means all data relating to;

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On the 25^th of May 2018, the world as we know it will end and there will be a new beginning… No the doomsday calendar hasn’t expired (again, when is the next scheduled end of the world?) but on this day we will all have greater data protection under the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation).

This is the largest change in privacy legislation in 20 years!

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