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ASC Provider Briefing - 24 March 2023
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Dear Care Provider Colleagues,
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Welcome to this week's briefing.
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This week in the briefing: a reminder about the Security of Premises, information about Nursing Associate Apprenticeships, a recorded webinar on Intergenerational Linking, an update on support with the Capacity Tracker, an update about the Enhanced Health in Care Homes Framework, a request for participants in research about DNAR, a CQC Progress Report on Oral Health, a survey about the Flu Vaccine and a survey about the Adult Social Care Workforce, information about Thick & Easy™ Clear, a Proud to Care update, invitations to the Registered Manager's Network Meeting and a webinar about Urgent Community Response, as well as the usual event reminders.
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Please find the latest news and updates from Adult Social Care below:
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Security of Premises Bulletin
If you asked yourself, when was the last time you …
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- Considered who currently has access to the home
- Reviewed the security measures in place
- Audited the management of and return of keys, codes, key safes
- Reviewed the management of visitors/contractors into the home for example: compliance with signing in/out or wearing of in date identity badges
- Were prompted to change your security codes, for example, if a member of staff left the service
- Considered how you manage access to the service by an agency or bank worker
- Considered if there are any vulnerable points for unauthorised people to enter the home, e.g., unsecured windows, kitchen doors left opened or locked areas left unsecure
- Considered if the planned induction of new staff equips them to maintain and manage your security measures
- Reviewed security measures as part of the HR processes with starters/ leavers/ staff suspended from duty
- Recorded a breach in security as an incident and updated your policy as a result
- Considered if your staff would know how to manage a suspected serious incident so that this was reported promptly, and evidence was secured
- Liaised with your local PCSO and reviewed the be safe home scheme https://www.avonandsomerset.police.uk/apply/be-home-safe-scheme/
- Audited staff access to electronic records when somebody has left the organisation, e.g., care planning systems, email addresses, what’s app groups
- Audited your recruitment files or reviewed/renewed a DBS for long serving staff
- Considered how technology could help you maintain a secure environment. For example, CCTV, alarms, access control, visitor management systems.
Discussion of this bulletin could be used in the ‘lessons learnt’ slot of your team business meetings to generate a team discussion.
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You can also add any review of your security to your Provider Information Return to evidence to CQC your compliance with Regulation 15 ensuring your premises are secure.
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Undertaking this work contributes to a safe governance process and shows how your service plans to maintain people’s safety.
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Intergenerational Linking in Care Homes
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The Care Home FaNs: Intergenerational Linking project held a webinar on Wednesday 22nd February, sharing the outcomes and benefits from this England wide research project, it included 8000 young people and 2000 residents, with some of the projects happening in the South West being featured! This is very much worth a watch, and we hope to follow up on this success as we get into the spring. A recording of the webinar can be viewed here:
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Resources and reports from the project can be found on the project website here.
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Capacity tracker help
In the coming weeks the Capacity Tracker Support Team will be introducing a new Helpdesk system to support enquiries. There will be no change in the way users contact the Support Team – it will be business as usual, however, where users receive an email response, it will contain an ID number to track enquiries. There will also be a facility to provide direct feedback on the service received from Capacity Tracker Support Centre. Support Centre contact details: Email: necsucapacitytracker@nhs.net Phone number: 0191 691 3729
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Enhanced Health in Care Homes Framework v3
As you will know we are expecting the refreshed version to be published shortly. It is completed and so we are just waiting on a publication date now, we will share widely as soon as it appears! There will be a number of follow up webinars to discuss the changes and updates so that the rationale behind the updates can be understood. The document will look quite different, and written with the ICS audience in mind, to support the key messages about the ICS responsibilities, not to “do to” the sector, but to support them.
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Do Not Attempt CPR
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Professor Wayne Martin (Professor of Philosophy at the University of Essex) has been leading on national research into DNA_CPR and Resuscitation. As part of this work the team are finding that some institutions have one, some the other, and some both (either separately or unified) of Resuscitation Policies and/or DNACPR Policies. This research the project would like to add Care Homes in the data set, ideally with a broad cross section from regions and types of institutions across England and Wales. Please share the message out to Care Home managers to request that members share their DNA_CPR and/or Resuscitation policies to the Autonomy Project email address (autonomy@essex.ac.uk)
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CQC progress report: Smiling matters: Oral health in care homes – progress report
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Flu Vaccine Survey
Please can you take the time to complete a survey on the flu vaccine. The Somerset Public Health team are wanting to hear from health and social care employees who have or haven’t had the flu vaccine, to find out your views. The survey is anonymous – your name won’t appear anywhere. There are no right or wrong answers and nothing you say will impact on your job as all answers will be managed confidentially.
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They expect the survey to be completed by hundreds if not thousands of staff across the health and care system in Somerset. The results will be used to help the public health team support flu vaccine uptake in the future.
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The survey will take 10 minutes at the most, so please put time in your calendar to complete it. As a thank you for taking part, you have the option of taking part in a prize draw where 5 people will receive a £30 shopping voucher.
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Health Protection Manager
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DHSC Adult Social Care Workforce Support Review
I hope this email finds you well. The Department of Health and Social Care are conducting a review into the support available to the adult social care workforce. We are looking to hear your views on the current landscape of support, what works well, any gaps and opportunities for improvement.
Please take the time to fill in this short survey which should take no longer than 5 minutes to complete.
The survey will close on 31st March 2023 so we encourage you to complete this as soon as possible. We really appreciate your engagement, if you have any questions or require further assistance please email Adult Social Care Workforce. Please see QR code that can be printed to share with teams if required.
Please will you forward this email onto your network, as we are keen to reach as many people as possible.
Thank you in advance for your participation.
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NHS Somerset have made Thick & Easy™ Clear FIRST LINE ON THE PRESCRIBING FORMULARY. This is to support a system wide approach to the patient safety issues in dysphagia patients and the IDDSI Framework.
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The Somerset Speech and Language team have asked that:
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- Where appropriate, all care and nursing homes should use one thickener (Thick & Easy™ Clear). This ensures patient wellbeing as multiple brands may cause dosage and safety issues.
- Patients who have an historic use of a starch thickener for GI tolerance issues, e.g Thick & Easy™ Original, should remain on it.
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Based on average adult fluid requirements (approx. 6-10 250ml cups)
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*IDDSI Framework for texture modification in adults
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We have candidates waiting!
An update on our exciting My Time to Care campaign. We have had 298 expressions of interest, and have 58 candidates with the right to work in the UK, and a further 72 candidates in the UK who need sponsorship and 115 international candidates.
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Events
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Somerset Registered Managers’ Network Practice meeting
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Wednesday 29th March 2023
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13.35 Flexible working-challenge or opportunity?- Rebecca McCollum and Chris Amys, RWK Goodman
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14.00 Recruitment and retention-Neil Eastwood, author of ‘Saving Social Care’; CEO and Founder of Care Friends
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14.30 Get Borderless-international recruitment portal-Matthew Bond, CEO, Borderless, Jonathan Raphael, CTO, Borderless.
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14.50 Skills for Care Update-Christiana Evans, Skills for Care
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Questions and signposting
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Ambulance (999) and Urgent Community Response webinar 5 – Supporting care homes
We are running a series of webinars to support implementation and collaboration between UCR and Ambulance services, through sharing best practice. This webinar is focusing on supporting care homes.
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The webinar is aimed at regional and ICB community care leads, urgent and emergency care (UEC) frontline staff, primary care and colleagues working in care homes. Please distribute widely to your team.
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Date/time: 04 April 3-4pm
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*once you register you will be placed on a list of attendees and a registration link will be sent out to you prior to the webinar date, for anybody registering within 24hrs of the event, expect to be sent a link on the day of the webinar.
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Upcoming Event Reminders
- Homecare Market Engagement Event, March 29th, 10am to 12pm. Details on PEN.
- Treatment Escalation and Rescuscitation Decision Form Discussion, March 30th, 10am-12pm. Details on PEN.
- Mouth Care and Swallowing Matters, April 29th, 10am to 12pm. Details on PEN.
- Basic Dysphagia Awareness Training, Various dates. Details on PEN.
- Learning Disability Mental Health Upskilling Sessions. Various dates and locations, details on PEN.
- Dementia Wellbeing Roadshow. Various dates and locations, details on PEN. Booking for Virtual Dementia Tour.
- St Margaret's Hospice - Training for Care Professionals. Various dates, details on PEN.
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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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