Blogs

Priory Group Leads on Expert Forensic Mental Health Conference

March 2, 2010 by SallyPreston

Priory Group, the UK’s leading provider of independent mental health care, is bringing health experts together for a unique conference, which provides an insight into the field of forensic mental healthcare.

Forensic mental health services allow appropriate and effective treatment of extremely vulnerable people whose behaviours present a risk to themselves as well as others.

Stoke Care Home Welcomes Dignity Day

February 17, 2010 by SallyPreston

Amberley House in Stoke-on-Trent has chosen Dignity Action Day (25th Feb 2010) to showcase its facilities and services to health and social care professionals.

The home, which opened in April 2009, was the Priory Group’s first care home for older people in England,

Amberley House provides specialist and dementia nursing care in 76 single en-suite bedrooms, finished to the highest standard. There is also a choice of lounges and dining areas and an enclosed landscaped garden.

Priory warns of dangers of work-related stress

February 3, 2010 by SallyPreston

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PRIORY WARNS OF DANGERS OF WORK-RELATED STRESS

3/2/10

Doctors at the Priory Group, the UK’s leading independent provider of mental healthcare, are advising businesses to make a New Year resolution to tackle stress at work.

The Health and Safety Executive’s official definition of work-related stress is "The adverse reaction people have to excessive pressures or other types of demand placed on them at work."

Cool-Tel online vaccine monitoring system provides protection which surpasses new NHS advice.

January 29, 2010 by neondrum

The alert (NPSA/2010/RRR008) issued on the 21st of January by the National Patient Safety Agency requires all NHS organisations to ensure that they implement appropriate procedures for monitoring and responding to alerts in vaccine cold storage by July 2010. For vaccines to be effective, it is important that they are stored within the temperature range recommended by manufacturers [+2°C to +8°C]. Cool-Tel systems quietly monitor and record the temperature of pharmacy fridges, or medicines in transit, across the UK and abroad 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.