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This website has been designed to provide NCF members, and visitors, with information about the National Care Forum and our activities. It also has information on our member organisations and details of how you can join us and become involved in our work.

	4th Annual Lecture and Dinner

Wednesday 3rd December 2008
Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms

NCF is delighted that Ecclesiastical Insurance Group will again be sponsoring the Annual Lecture: Leadership across Borders which will be delivered by Larry Minnix Jr, President and CEO of the International Association of Homes and Services for the Aging.
Pharmacy Plus are generously sponsoring the Annual Dinner

Please note this event is by invitation.

	Care for Older People London, December 8 2008

The thought leadership event for professionals working with ageing communities.

The issues around care for older people have come a long way since Society Guardian's sell-out conference last year. This one-day conference looks at the new government strategies on housing, wellbeing and mental health, which aim to give people a real voice in services.

For more information and to register your attendance please visit guardian.co.uk/careconference

	NCF Managers Conference

Managers Ballot of Top Ten Concerns

Recruitment and retention tops the poll and there are 3 new entries to the Top Ten:

• Policy change
• Personalisation
• Staffing/pay levels

Press Release
Ballot Results

	Events and Publications of Interest to Members

Public Guardian Board AGM
First annual public meeting 7 October 2008.

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Staff well-being in social care services & management guide and audit tool

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NCF Personnel Statistics 2008
A survey of NCF member organisations.

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NCF Annual Review

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National Dementia Strategy

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Statement of Best Practice

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Code of Conduct for LINks visits

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Social Care Bulletin - Issue 8, November 2008

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Local Involvement Networks (LINks)
Presentation to General Members meeting on 5 June 2008 by Stephanie Varah, LINks Implementation Co-ordinator.

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Commissioning Framework for Health and Wellbeing
This framework builds on the whitepaper Our Health, Our Care, Our Say to outline the actions necessary to improve commissioning

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Real Choice, Real Voice: Older People in Control
This is the latest publication from Counsel and Care which looks at how care services can be reshaped to deliver health and social care reforms

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London Centre for Dementia Care - Sept 2008

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