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ASC Provider briefing - 1 June 2022
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Dear Care Provider Colleagues,
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Welcome to this week’s special Jubilee edition of the newsletter.
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We hope you enjoy the bank holiday weekend! If you celebrate the Jubilee with the people you care for, we would love for you to send us photos to share in next week’s newsletter and as part of our Proud to Care campaign. Please send them to proudtocare@somerset.gov.uk or tag us on Twitter, Facebook, or TikTok.
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This morning we also had our Provider Webinar and Q&A with Mel Lock. You can watch the replay via Teams. The agenda included:
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- Rachel Handley (Consultant in Public Health) on the Covid position, updated guidance and health and wellbeing. View slides (with links to guidance).
- Denise D’Souza (Assistant Director of Adult Social Care – Commissioning) on commissioning and the fair cost of care
- Mel Lock (Director of Adult Social Care) on the elections and the new Lead Member for Adult Social Care, Cllr Heather Shearer
- David Partlow (Strategic Manager – Acutes and Partnerships) on celebrating the Jubilee safely and a communications update – what do you want from us?
- Lisa Eastmead-Hoare (Service Manager for Infection Prevention & Control – Somerset CCG) on Monkeypox, Scabies and continuing IPC support
We are also keen to hear from you about what you want from this newsletter in future! Please fill out this very short (1 question only) form to let us know what would be useful to you in the provider briefing.
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Next week the briefing will resume as usual.
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Planning a journey in Somerset?
Think Travel can help
A new one-stop travel information website has been launched by Somerset County Council to support more local people to access public and community transport.
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If you don’t own a car - or you want to leave it at home and travel more sustainably, Think Travel can help you with your transport options. Whether it’s getting to the doctors, shops, travelling to work, college, or school, or just into town to meet friends or family, the new travel planner shows you what’s available. It covers public transport, community transport, the Slinky demand responsive transport service and car sharing.
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To start your search, all you need to do is enter your journey start point and destination in the planner and Think Travel will find the available options for you.
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As well as information on train and bus services, there’s also a dedicated car sharing notice board you can sign up to, where offers or requests for car sharing journeys can be posted.
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The aim is to grow this facility and encourage local car sharing networks to evolve.
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Upcoming Event Reminders
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Updated Guidance
- See Presentation from Rachel Handley above.
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Please continue to share or promote these briefings and our webpage to others in your organisations.
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Our incident room mailbox and contact details (see below) remains operational during core working hours so please get in touch if you have any urgent concerns or queries we can look to assist you with.
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Somerset’s Provider Engagement Team
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Adult Social Care (ASC) COVID19 Response Team
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