Public Health England has released its Winter Readiness information for London Care Homes
Building Resilience training
Nation-wide training events geared towards staff working within CHC
Extending people’s legal rights to personal health budgets and integrated personal budgets
NHS England and the Dept. of Health and Social Care have launched a joint consultation
National Framework for NHS Continuing Healthcare and NHS-funded Nursing Care published
Support tools and guidance setting out the principles and processes have been published
Q1 2017/18 CHC stats
Link to statistics relating to the activity of NHS Continuing Healthcare and NHS-funded Nursing Care in England. Categories of activity covered are: eligibility, referrals, conversion rates, personal health budgets and decision support tools.
High impact change model
This high impact change model aims to focus support on helping local system partners minimise unnecessary hospital stays and to encourage them to consider new interventions for future winters.
CQC Guidance: Needs assessments on hospital discharge by providers
Guidance: Needs assessments on hospital discharge | Care Quality Commission There have been some concerns expressed that care home providers will not readmit people after periods in hospital without conducting full, in person assessments of need. We would like to make clear the legal requirements around this and offer some…
The Stay Well This Winter campaign
Resources available include: 8 page easy read booklet 8 page large print booklet A3 poster long term conditions A3 poster stay well A3 poster first signs
Winter readiness information for London care homes
Winter readiness information pack for care homes – link to document Be prepared Ensure your residents and staff are immunised against flu and have a stockpile of personal protective equipment (PPE) Ensure your residents over the age of 65 are immunised against pneumococcal infection. Ensure your residents aged 70 to 73,…
Exploring How the Role of an Enhanced Care Worker Could Address Skills Shortages in the Social Care Sector
Please find below a link to a publication by the DH on the enhanced care worker role. Innovate to Alleviate: Exploring How the Role of an Enhanced Care Worker Could Address Skills Shortages in the Social Care Sector
Quick Guide on ‘Supporting patients’ choices to avoid long hospital stays
The guide, patient leaflet and related policy templates can also be found here: https://www.nhs.uk/NHSEngland/keogh-review/Pages/quick-guides.aspx
National Framework for Children and Young People’s Continuing Care published on 22/1/16
Can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/children-and-young-peoples-continuing-care-national-framework.
NHS Continuing Healthcare Activity Statistics for England, Quarter 2 2015-16 Report, Experimental Statistics
Publication date: December 15, 2015 Source: HSCIC
NHS Greenwich CCG Launches New Guide on NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC)
NHS Greenwich Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and its partner Enabled City, an independent company, have today released a motion graphics film which explains how the National Framework for NHS continuing healthcare (CHC) works in practice. The film aims to help adults who have complicated, intense or unpredictable healthcare needs understand better how the NHS…
LGA Adults Peer Training Events
The Local Government Association is holding a number of free one day training events for those interested in becoming an LGA peer to take part in Adult Social Care and Adult Safeguarding Peer Challenges. This includes the new Commissioning for Better Outcomes Peer Challenges. Peer challenges are managed and delivered…
PHB update
New PHB story Kerri Lewis deals with “comms” in our team. She collects PHB stories for publication and here is the latest one on our website. It is about Jonathan who was completely against PHBs, but later changed his mind. Click on the link below to find out why. https://www.england.nhs.uk/healthbudgets/2015/10/22/jonathan-barrow/ All…
Hospital discharge – report by Healthwatch
When discharge goes wrong, it comes at significant cost, both to individuals and to the health and social care system. Whilst the financial cost of this problem is recognised, not enough is known about the human cost. We undertook this inquiry to bring the true emotional and physical impact of this persisting problem to…
New Report: County Care Markets: Market Sustainability & the Care Act
County Councils Network | New Report: County Care Markets: Market Sustainability & the Care Act CCN presents the culmination of an extensive research project into the sustainability of local care markets in county areas.The report County Care Markets: Market Sustainability and the Care Act, reveals the reality facing county care…
Options for integrated commissioning – Beyond Barker
Kings Fund report looking at the future of integrated care with our new report, Options for integrated commissioning: beyond Barker. Following the recommendation for a single pooled health and social care budget, as laid out in the independent Commission on the Future of Health and Social Care in England, the…
An Intellectual Disability Outcomes Framework for improving the quality of services for people with intellectual disability
The Royal College of Psychiatrists has produced a report and outcomes framework recently. They’ve reviewed the three outcomes frameworks that commissioners should be taking into consideration: NHS Outcomes Framework Public Health Outcomes Framework Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework. The college has distilled the three outcomes frameworks into five domains. Preventing people…