ASC Provider Briefing - 29 September 2023
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Dear Care Provider Colleagues,
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Welcome to this week's briefing.
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We hope you will join us at next Tuesday October 3rd's Learning Engagement Meeting, 2pm to 4pm. Agenda and joining details in the Events section below.
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In this week's briefing: an update on Flu Vaccine Eligibility, a survey around Equipment in Care Homes, an opportunity to be an Early Adopter of Pairly, a story about a local care home featured on BBC News, details about Upcoming LEMs, invitations to Capacity Tracker Events for Care Homes, and webinars on Digital Working in Social Care, 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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Flu Vaccine
All frontline health and social care staff are eligible for a free NHS flu vaccine. Bring ID that states job title when attending the appointment.
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Anyone can get flu and pass it on. The flu vaccine is effective at stopping this. Catching flu can make us seriously unwell, resulting in days in bed, missing things we enjoy doing, and not being able to do easy day-to-day tasks.
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Getting the flu vaccination can prevent us from spreading flu to each other, protecting those who are vulnerable and reducing the burden on the NHS and other health and care services. Additionally, it will help us stay well.
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Equipment in Care Homes Policy
As many of you are aware, a new equipment provider is now in place (Medequip) in Somerset and, as a result we are reviewing the Equipment in Care Homes policy. It is critical that Somerset Council understands how this policy works for our care home providers and what can be done to improve its usefulness for everyone. With budgets under strain in both the private and public sector, we need to find new ways of working that will continue to support our customers. So, we are asking our care home providers if they could please complete a survey for us (link below). The questionnaire should take approximately 10-15 minutes and will help shape our how we take this policy forward.
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The deadline for completing the questionnaire is 5pm Friday the 13th of October 2023. If you have any problems with the link or questions about the survey, please email Jo.Caughlin@somerset.gov.uk
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PairlyPro
Pairly, having successfully run it's PairlyPro service live on a number of home care services for the last 6 weeks is excited to announce that the system is now ready for launch for care and nursing homes.
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Information can be found on the following link - https://www.pairly.com/pro
The system allows people seeking a bed in a care home who visit your site to view available rooms (including pictures of those rooms, facilities and features) and send a reservation request.
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We are looking for 3 or 4 early adopter care home providers who will receive help with their set up of PairlyPro and receive it for free for 2 years.
Any interested parties please contact mark@pairly.com
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In The News
World War II memories lead to new book by care home
"A manager of a care home has written a book about the residents' memories of the Second World War.
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Rachel Mundy, who works at Highfield House Residential Care Home in Castle Cary, Somerset, said it was her "dream" to collate the stories.
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"I realised the value of these human experiences - our generation should grasp hold tightly onto the community spirit of these times," she said.
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The book of stories is entitled "I Remember The War."
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Ms Mundy's project was supported by a visiting author, Mandy Bloom.
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It was so successful it has since expanded to two other care homes owned by the same company: Eastbury House in Sherborne, Dorset, and Ivehurst Nursing Home in Yeovil."
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Events
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LEM Agenda for October, November, and December
Get the dates in your diary!
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2:05pm Lucy Champion I&PC update
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2:10pm Lianne Clark and Lauren Dyer - SASP
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2:15pm Fay Clutterbuck – oral health training offer
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2:25pm Daniel Plummer – RCPA Digital Social Care
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2:40pm Harriet Lewis – Tissue Viability Nurse
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3:30pm Steve Bell – Business Continuity
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Service updates to be confirmed – please contact for a slot
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2:15pm Natalie Green – Safeguarding
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2:45pm Covid Vaccination team
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3:00pm Kate Buckly – Swan Advocacy
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3:30pm Liz Jones – insulin training offer for residential homes
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2:00pm Lucy Champion – I&PC update
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2:15pm Gemma Beasley – residential and nursing homes - where are we going and what do we want to do,
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3:00pm Atha and Deb – CSE – keep your home warm presentation.
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3:30pm Amelia Wood – Contractures guidance
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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, our Somerset Care Providers!
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Somerset Council and NECS (DHSC) National Capacity Tracker provider event for care homes in Somerset
During the winter period of 2022, Somerset Council hosted a survey with providers to get a breakdown of bed level information surrounding their capacity (such as the environment of the available room). The feedback from providers was positive, including improved assessment quality and sped up utilising available rooms within the homes. Consequently, we welcome your continued support of this data collection via the Capacity Tracker.
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Online events are available:
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3rd October 10:30am-11:30am
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Join on your computer, mobile app or room device
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Meeting ID: 368 234 582 799
Passcode: VPCXkh
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Phone Conference ID: 926 960 033#
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4th October 14:00pm-15:00pm
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Join on your computer, mobile app or room device
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Meeting ID: 329 809 861 608
Passcode: REeJvY
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Phone Conference ID: 579 482 316#
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5th October 13:00pm-14:00pm
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Join on your computer, mobile app or room device
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Meeting ID: 313 816 070 749
Passcode: Yd4UyY
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Phone Conference ID: 977 360 106#
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What Good Looks Like for digital working in adult social care – webinars
The framework brings together the needs of councils and care providers into one piece of guidance to help develop a shared understanding of how to work better together digitally.
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The Local Government Association is hosting a series of free webinars for councils following the launch of the WGLL framework for digital ASC.
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The webinars will explore each of the seven success measures from the framework and attendees will hear from councils who share their learning.
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Please register using the links below:
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Upcoming Event and Training Reminders
- Deaf Adults: Let's Connect, 7th October, 11am-3pm. Ticket sales close today, 5pm. Details on Eventbrite
- Basic Dysphagia Awareness Training, Various dates. Details on PEN.
- RCPA Annual Conference, Wednesday November 8th, 9.30am to 4.30pm, Taunton Racecourse. Details on website.
- St Margaret's Hospice - Training for Care Professionals. 30th November, 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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Somerset’s Provider Engagement Team
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