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ASC Provider Briefing - 25 August 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 the briefing is packed with interesting workshops and events invites. You will find: links to Somerset Council's Adult Social Care Strategy for 2023-2026, a link to participate in the first national survey of care workers, information on the Learning Disability and Autism Engagement workshop, resources on the new Care Obra along with guidance on ordering resources for health and social care worker seasonal flu & COVID-19 vaccination campaign, and event details for Workforce 2035 Workshops, 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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Somerset Adult Social Care Strategy 2023-2026
Somerset Council’s vision for adult social care is for people to live in the place they call home, with the people and things they love, in communities where people look out for one another.
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Together, we can make Somerset a health and caring place for everyone.
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Have your say in the first national survey of care workers
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Have you recently received support from our Quality/Contracts Team? We’d love to hear about your experience.
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Your feedback is extremely important to us and is crucial in helping us to deliver the best possible support now and into the future:
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Provider link for information
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#SaveTheDate: LEARNING DISABILITY AND AUTISM ENGAGEMENT WORKSHOP
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FRIDAY 8 SEPTEMBER 10am or 11:30am
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Taunton Campus Conference Centre - Bridgwater and Taunton College, Wellington Road, Taunton TA1 5AX
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Please will you join us to talk about a new strategy for improving health and social care services for people with a learning disability and autistic people in Somerset. We want to know what you, your family and your carers think, so you are welcome to bring someone with you. We would like to know:
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- What does a good life look like to you?
- Do you like what we have suggested?
- Which of the topics are most important to you?
- Do you think we’ve missed anything?
- Do you think we should change anything?
- Do you have any other comments or suggestions?
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We will have two sessions: you can choose which one suits you best:
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10.00am – 11.30am OR 11.30am – 1.00pm
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Each session will include:
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- arrival and introduction to the meeting (with tea or coffee and pastries)
- talking about the strategy in small groups (five or six) with a facilitator
Sessions will run for 90 minutes but feel free to leave when you like.
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Attached is an invitation with full details, directions to the venue and an easy read copy of the draft document.
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- Somerset's Learning Disability and Autism Strategy 2023-2024
- Taunton Conference Centre - parking information
- Learning Disability and Autism Workshop
Booking is through EventBrite - please choose the session that suits you best from the drop down under When and Where on this link: LD and Autism Workshop
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If you can’t join us on the day but would like to share your thoughts or comments, please email: somicb.leder@nhs.net
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Outbreak Risk Assessment Tool for Care Settings (Care OBRA Tool)
An online Outbreak Risk Assessment Tool for Care Settings (Care OBRA Tool) has been used by the UKHSA South West Health Protection Team (HPT) since 31st January 2022.
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It is used by Adult Social Care (ASC) settings reporting new outbreaks of Acute Respiratory Infections (ARI’s) including COVID-19, Influenza (flu), unidentified ARI (e.g., chest infections), and single cases of Influenza. Due to its success, this Care OBRA Tool has been developed further to allow care settings to report ARI outbreaks directly online via a new web-based Care OBRA Tool without needing to call/email the HPT first, thus saving valuable time.
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This new web-based Care OBRA Tool launched on 22nd August 2023, incorporates a degree of automation to the assessment process and advice given, so that providers receive a copy of their submitted information immediately and an initial advice email based on the infection and risks reported.
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SW HPT staff will still review the data manually and provide further advice when required.
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Order resources for health and social care worker seasonal flu & COVID-19 vaccination campaign
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Printed materials to promote winter vaccinations for eligible frontline healthcare workers are now available to pre-order until 11:59pm Friday 8 September and will be delivered to sites late September. Alternative versions are available with social care branding for use as appropriate.
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Printed materials can be ordered from the Campaign Resource Centre. Digital versions of these campaign assets will be available for download mid-September at the same link. Please find attached the poster with information on the same here: Think Flu and COVID-19.
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#UPDATE: Proud to Care
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Interested in a #careerincare but don't know where to start? Nearly 100 care services in Somerset have signed up to our exclusive job matching service and counting!
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Our website is undergoing some essential updates at the moment, coming in September 2023
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Events
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You are Invited! Workforce 2035 Workshops in September and October
While we can’t predict the future - there is no reason to expect Somerset’s health and care workforce in 2035 to look the same as it does today.
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One of the keys to our success will be effective workforce planning to ensure we have the right numbers of people and types of roles in the right places, with the knowledge and skills, to meet the needs of our population.
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To help inform our thinking, we are inviting you to join us at our Workshops in September and October to work through the different opportunities and challenges using four scenarios that offer glimpses into what health and care could look like in Somerset by 2035.
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Our workshops will include representatives from health and care, and the voluntary and community sectors.
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Opportunity to attend one workshop in September
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We will provide refreshments, and the two sessions are equal to CPD 8 Hours.
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Why it is important that you join us
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We want to achieve the absolute best for our neighbourhoods and communities, and you’re invited because you represent a critical part of our health and care system, and your thoughts, insights and views are essential to help shape the future.
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We do hope that you will be able to attend. If you can’t attend, please feel free to nominate someone else from your service to represent you.
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Learning and Engagement Meeting
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Lou Curry - Public Health
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Olivia Blunn – Dysphagia service update
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- Paul Chapman – CQC- new way of inspecting
- Jo Jones – Business change provider update
- James Loader and colleague – Diabetes services in Somerset, specialist guests to discuss managing obesity, managing medication, diabetes overview and much more.
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Next Learning and Engagement Meeting
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Date of next meeting 3rd October 2023 at 2pm – teams invite to be published in the provider brief. Individual invites can be sent upon request.
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- Lucy Champion – I&PC update
- Amy Giles – EOL team update
- Fay Clutterbuck – Oral Health training offer
- Daniel Plummer – RCPA presenting on digital social care
- Gemma Beasley – current demand in Somerset
- Harriet Lewis – Tissue Viability Nurse – resource
- Steve Bell – Business Continuity
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Please do get in touch if you would like a specific topic, training, guest speaker to attend. The LEMS are a resource for you!
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Registered Managers' Network F2F meeting
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Thursday 14th September 13.30-15.00hrs
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Plenty of free car parking available.
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Programme will be circulated nearer the time.
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To include workforce development and training, transformation, proposals and provider engagement/input for the new health and social care training academy, an opportunity to meet senior system leaders and learn more about the ICS. The meeting is in collaboration with Skills for Care.
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This is an especially important meeting, and we would encourage operation managers, registered managers, deputy managers, clinical leads and all those in decision making roles including training and education provision to attend.
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Upcoming Event and Training 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) remain 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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