Allied Healthcare Skillnet would like to present for your attention our provisional schedule of courses for Autumn/Winter 2009 and we would ask you to take the time to review.                             
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These courses have been selected based on the needs of Nursing Home owners from our Network and have been designed to help you meet and surpass HIQA standards and increase the quality of care that your staff can deliver to residents.

We have courses this year in areas as diverse as Management/Supervision Training, Manual Handling, Infection Control, Customer Care, Health and Safety, Cleaning- and Catering- related courses.

Allied-West Healthcare Skillnet has been set up by nursing home owners to provide the best training for our staff at the best price and to deliver it locally.  Conscious of the huge impact HIQA has had and will continue to have on our industry we are committed to facilitating our members to be HIQA compliant.

Should you wish for more information on a specific course, or to book a place please do not hesitate to call us on
021 4630 915, or email admin@healthcarenet.ie

The team at Allied Healthcare Skillnet look forward to hearing from you.
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  02/07/2009 - Allied Healthcare Skillnet -
  Teeing Off for a new era in Nursing Home Care at Adare  MManor Golf Club
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The recent launch of the new HIQA National Quality Standards for Residential Care Settings for
Older People was marked in July in the Adare Manor Golf Club with a seminar for Nursing Home
Owners and Managers enitled Quis Custodiet ipsos Custodes  “Who Minds the Minders”.

Over 80 Nursing Home owners and managers from all over Ireland descended to the clubhouse of
the golf club for a series of talks on topics such as
 “Employee Management”,  “Legal Issues in Nursing Home Management” and “Ensuring Quality Care provision in the H.I.Q.A. era”   

Questions and Answer sessions and an open forum at the end of the day provided Nursing Home owners and managers
an opportunity to learn  and share knowledge with each other about how to increase the quality of care available to
Nursing Home residents.

Guest Speaker on the day was Eamon Timmins, head of Communication and Advocacy at Age Action Ireland,
who outlined the important role that Nursing Home Managers can continue to play in ensuring good quality of life for a
growing population of older people in Ireland.
                                                             
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From Left to Right - Diarmuid O' Dalaigh (Network Manager, Allied Healthcare Skillnet), Louise McCormack (Steering Group Member,Allied Healthcare Skillnet), David O Hanlon (Project Coordinator Allied Healthcare Skillnet), Aileen Bleach (Steering Group Member,Allied Healthcare Skillnet).   

From Left to Right - Mary O' Connor (Chairperson, Allied Healthcare Skillnet), Eamon Timmins (Guest Speaker - Head of Advocacy and Communications, Age Action Ireland), Sean Fennessy (Secretary, Allied Healthcare Skillnet).

From Left to Right – Janet Woodward (Douglas Nursing Home), Mary Daly (Trainer, Mary Daly and Associates), David O Hanlon (Project Coordinator Allied Healthcare Skillnet).