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Continuing Healthcare (CHC) Network

Claudia Thompson

Claudia Thompson

Karen Scarsbrook

Karen Scarsbrook

Co-chair: Claudia Thompson, Assistant Director, Islington Adult Integrated Community Services
Co-chair: Karen Scarsbrook, NHS England, CHC London Lead

Membership: This network is open to Continuing Healthcare leads in Local Authorities and CCGs / CSUs

Key Aims for 2017/18

  • Linking advice and information in a clearer fashion across LAs and CCGs
  • Share best practice examples
  • Support local areas to undertake 85% of CHC assessments in the community in fewer than 28 days
  • Collating data from IRPs

Resources

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Recent News

High impact change model

April 27th, 2017
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

February 9th, 2017
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,[...]

The Stay Well This Winter campaign

November 7th, 2016
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 [...]

Future meetings and events

Date/Time Event Notes
19/07/2017
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm 		Continuing Healthcare Network - July 2017
Skipton House, London

Past meetings and events

Date/Time Event Notes
12/05/2017
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm 		Continuing Healthcare Network - May 2017
Skipton House, London
23/03/2017
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm 		Continuing Healthcare Network - March 2017
Skipton House, London
23/01/2017
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm 		Continuing Healthcare Network - January 2017
Skipton House, London
23/11/2016
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm 		Continuing Healthcare Network - November 2016
Skipton House, London
21/09/2016
10:00 am - 12:30 pm 		Continuing Healthcare Network - September 2016
06/06/2016
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm 		Continuing Healthcare Network - June 2016

Focused on:

  • A review of CHC and DToC over the winter period: what worked well and what needs to improve?
  • Discharge to assess local policies
  • Joint funding protocols
  • Review of the role and purpose of the network
14/03/2016
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm 		Continuing Healthcare Network - March 2016

Focused on:

  • DToCs and Discharge to Assess arrangements – an update on how this works
  • CHC assessments across borough boundaries
  • Better Care Fund plans and assurance process
  • ‘Who pays’ amendment to the section on persons detained under the Mental Health Act 1983
07/03/2016
10:30 am - 4:30 pm 		The value of engaging people in service change - Healthwatch England event

Presentations
17/12/2015
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm 		Continuing Healthcare Network - December 2015

Focused on CHAT
23/11/2015
10:00 am - 1:30 pm 		Developing London Workforce Plan across the care sector

Write Up from the event
06/10/2015
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm 		Continuing Healthcare Network - October 2015

Focused on DToC revised guidance 
15/09/2015
10:00 am - 4:00 pm 		Commissioning person centred care for the last year of life
27/07/2015
10:00 am - 1:00 pm 		Continuing Healthcare Network - July 2015

Joint meeting with CCG colleagues. Focused on:

  • Learning disability and CHC
  • Delayed discharges – revised guidance
  • Pathway for Clients no Longer Eligible CHC
  • Financial modelling tool and guidance
27/01/2015
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm 		Continuing Healthcare Network - January 2015

Focused on:

  • Learning disability and CHC
  • Care homes: pan-London themes
  • CHC and winter resilience plans
  • Memorandum of Agreement between CCGs and LAs

Surveys

  • No surveys relating to Continuing Healthcare

 

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