ASC Provider Briefing - 31 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: information about driving tests for critical workers, a PPE Update, an update regarding the ShinyMind Wellbeing App, news from the Small Business Awards, an invitation to surveys on Digitisation in Social Care and the Capacity Tracker Form, an invitation to Mouth Care Matters Webinar, 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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Driving Tests for Critical Workers
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We are also conscious that many providers have looked at overseas recruitment and that staff are permitted to use their overseas driving licences for up to 1 year. To ensure that they are still able to work (a requirement of visas), we actively encourage homecare providers to be as proactive in possible in mitigating potential risks here to your workforce/staffing.
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PPE Update
The provision of COVID-19 PPE will continue to be free of charge until 31 March 2024 or until stocks are depleted (whichever is sooner). It will also continue to be delivered by GXO (formally Clipper Logistics) and be supplied through the auto replenishment model for NHS trusts, and available to order via the dedicated PPE Portal for eligible primary care and adult social care providers.
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ShinyMind Wellbeing App
Unfortunately we have come to the end of our contract with the ShinyMind App and you will no longer have access after today, Friday 31st March. Apologies for the very late notice.
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You won’t receive any communication from ShinyMind from this date as you won’t be able to log in to your app any longer.
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We appreciate this may be difficult for some people, but please be reassured that we are working on alternative free Wellbeing Apps as a replacement for you. Unfortunately due to governance procedures that have to be followed we are not able to link you to the alternative free apps until after 5th April.
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Access to the app has already been kindly extended by ShinyMind for some months but we are now in the position of being unable to extend any further due to costs.
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We will be in touch again after 5th April, and thank you in advance for your patience.
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Congratulations – Somerset Business Awards Small Business of the Year Winner
Congratulations to You Are My Sunshine, Wedmore, who were awarded Small Business of the Year at the Winter Gardens Pavilion on Friday night.
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A very well-deserved accolade given all the hard work they have all put into delivering the service.
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What future care technology would you like to see us fund?
We are researching for tranche 3 of our Digitisation in Social Care (DiSC) programme. We would like feedback from care providers like you to help choose the right technology to assist adult social care in Somerset.
Please help us by answering the 3 questions below (this will only take 2 minutes)
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Feedback for Somerset Capacity Tracker 'Form' for care homes
The Somerset Capacity Tracker Form was supported by a one off payment of £1000 per home for completion. As we are coming to end up of this funding period, please complete the below questions to look at it's usage in the future.
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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 74 candidates in the UK who need sponsorship and 115 international candidates.
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Events
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Mouth Care Matters: Looking After People's Oral Health; A Training Session for Health & Social Care Professionals
Friday 14 April 2023, 10:00 to 11:30
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This is event is aimed at care home staff working within Somerset. The event is run in collaboration with Somerset Council.
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An MS Teams link to the training will be sent closer to the event.
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The overall aim of the course is to equip you with the knowledge, skills and confidence to manage the oral health of the people you care for.
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Upcoming Event Reminders
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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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