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Content ArticleThis is part of a continued professional development (CPD) module series for community pharmacy technicians. This module aims to help pharmacists and their teams recognise the importance of reporting patient safety incidents.
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Content ArticleThis toolkit has been designed for staff in care homes and carers in the community. It provides a readily accessible and practical guide to help them assist older people in their care to achieve optimum hydration. It was developed through collaboration between Kent Surrey and Sussex Academic Health Science Network, Wessex Academic Health Science Network and NE Hants and Farnham CCG
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Social prescribing - What's in a name?
Claire Cox posted an article in Social prescribing
Healthier Lancashire and South Cumbria is the name of a partnership of organisations working together to improve services and help the 1.7 million people in Lancashire and South Cumbria live longer, healthier lives. In this video, Linda Vernon, Digital Leader for Empower, speaks about what social prescribing involves. -
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Sepsis screening tool telephone triage for the under 5s
Claire Cox posted an article in Paediatrics
This is a tool for telephone triage/out of hospital for sepsis in children under five years, devised by the Sepsis Trust, aimed at community healthcare workers or carers. -
Content ArticlePharmacy Voice’s Patient Safety Group has worked closely with the UK Medicines Information (UKMi) to further develop their risk assessment tool, which is used regularly in secondary care settings, to make the tool more accessible and valuable for community pharmacy teams. The Community Pharmacy Medication Safety Risk Assessment tool is designed as an aid in the systematic identification of potential patient safety issues associated with medicines before their introduction to clinical practice.
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Health Innovation Network: Catheter Care Pledge Card
Claire Cox posted an article in Community care
This pledge card, produced by the Health Innovation Network, is designed to promote urinary catheter safety and good practice and, in turn, preventing infection. This initiative was part of catheter care awareness week. This pledge card could be used in numerous settings. -
Content ArticleWhich? magazine explores ways to keep people safe in their homes and outside by using electronic devices to alert others for assistance. Personal alarms allow people to call for assistance if they have an accident or a fall at home. They can help older and less abled people to feel safer at home, and to remain independent for longer. They can also offer peace of mind to family and friends.
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Content ArticleIn a new series for the hub, Martin will be interviewing healthcare professionals from various specialties to capture their experience and insight during the coronavirus pandemic. Learning from frontline staff is crucial, now more than ever. Prior to a predicted second wave hitting us, the government and leaders must listen to what has gone well but, most importantly, not so well for both staff and patients. Martin is a passionate nurse working on a covid unit and wants to promote learning to ensure patient and staff safety. This initially started as a way of connecting and not feeling alone but what Martin has found is that there are many voices that need and want to be heard but just don’t know how to speak up and out. In all of the interviews the healthcare professionals wanted to remain anonymous which is indicative of their fear of reprisals from their organisation. In this first interview, Martin interviews a new student district nurse who has been working within the community in the South West. Their role involves supporting care homes with end of life care and assisting in keeping people with long term conditions at home.
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Content ArticleThis document from the British Thoracic Society is designed to provide brief guidance for the management of non-invasive ventilation in the context of the current COVID-19 pandemic, if the patient was suspected or confirmed as being COVID positive. They are not intended to be prescriptive, and close liaison with the hospital based long-term ventilation teams is still required.
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Content ArticleThis guidance wriiten by the Royal College of Nursing, is for health care professionals, service providers and those involved with planning and commissioning services. It sets out the RCN’s perspective on contemporary and future children and young people’s nursing services in the home and community setting. It also underlines the increasingly crucial role played by community children’s nurses as they provide integrated care closer to home. It explores the legislative and policy agenda, defines the role of the CCN, sets out the core principles of providing care, considers variations in how the needs of families are assessed across the four countries of the UK and outlines examples of current models of care and service delivery.
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Content ArticleIn his blog, Steve Turner, Head of Medicines and Prescribing at Medicine Gov, talks about how to manage medicines in care homes and implement quality standards. This blog is designed to provide information for care homes and for those choosing a care home.
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COVID-19: Guidance for residential care, supported living and home care
Claire Cox posted an article in Guidance
This new guidance set out by the Department of Health and Social Care covers a variety of scenarios relating to care homes, staff, and providers who care for people in their own homes to ensure older people and those with pre-existing conditions and care needs who receive support are best protected. Elderly people and those with underlying health conditions are much more likely to develop serious complications. Anyone who is suspected of having COVID-19, with a new continuous cough or high temperature, should not visit care homes or people receiving home care, and should self-isolate at home. People receiving care will be isolated in their rooms if they have symptoms of coronavirus. To ensure they can continue to receive the care they require, care staff will use protective equipment to minimise the risk of transmission. Building on existing strong local relationships, the NHS will work with care providers where necessary to make sure people have the best possible care and remain in the community. GPs have been asked to look at the possibilities of offering digital appointments to provide advice and guidance to patients and potentially their families. Councils have been told to map out all care and support plans to prioritise people who are at the highest risk and contact all registered providers in their local area to facilitate plans for mutual aid. -
Content ArticleBBC Radio 4's You and Yours programme discusses the impact of coronavirus on social care and asks listeners if they feel their relatives in care are being properly protected? One listener, Amanda, speaks about the recent loss of her father who had Alzheimer's Disease. Following a fall and a hospital admission, he contracted the virus. A second caller, Bill, talks about the challenges and risks associated with needing care and support at home as a disabled man. Follow the link below to hear the full programme. This feature aired on 14 April 2020.
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Content ArticleThis is a guide to end of life care symptom control when a person is dying from COVID19 for General Practice Teams, prepared by the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) and the Association for Palliative Medicine.
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Content ArticleAn NHS-Led Provider Collaborative is a group of providers of specialised mental health, learning disability and autism services who have agreed to work together to improve the care pathway for their local population. They will do this by taking responsibility for the budget and pathway for their given population. The Collaborative will be led by an NHS Provider who remains accountable to NHS England and NHS Improvement for the commissioning of high-quality, specialised services. These Collaboratives aim to ensure that people with specialist mental health, learning disability and autism needs experience high quality, specialist care, as close to home as appropriately possible. They seek to enable specialist care to be provided in the community to prevent people being in hospital if they don’t need to be, and to enable people to leave hospital when they are ready. This webpage explains the role of NHS-Led Provider Collaboratives and includes case studies that demonstrate how they are helping to transform specialised mental health services.
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Content ArticleThis blog by the charity Mental Health UK looks at an innovative project that aims to transform the way care and support are delivered to people living with severe mental illness in Grimsby and Bridgend. It aims to meet people’s mental health needs by providing tailored support, signposting them to specialist services to improve their quality of life, prevent the need for emergency crisis care and reduce pressure on acute medical services. The project is being run in conjunction with healthcare company Johnson & Johnson UK, with the support of the local NHS. The project involves Community Mental Health Navigators supporting the non-medical needs of people living with severe mental illness, such as bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and borderline personality disorder. They provide support with aspects of people’s lives which can drive poor mental health, such as housing, money problems, employment, physical wellbeing and lack of social connections.
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Content ArticleThis Care Quality Commission (CQC) survey looks at the experiences of people who use community mental health services. The 2022 community mental health survey received feedback from 13,418 people. Those aged 18 and over were eligible to take part if they were receiving specialist care or treatment for a mental health condition between 1 September 2021 and 30 November 2021.
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Content ArticleLast week, one of the country’s largest child and adolescent mental health services, Forward Thinking Birmingham, run by Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Foundation Trust, was rated “inadequate” by the Care Quality Commission. The inspection report makes for concerning reading — not least because it speaks to a range of issues being experienced by other providers of CAMHS services across the country. CQC inspectors warned there were not enough nursing and support staff to keep people using community services from avoidable harm. Nurses told the CQC that vacancies in the service impacted on people being allocated a care coordinator — and staff were leaving largely due to handling caseloads they felt were unsafe. Part of HSJ’s Mental Health Matters fortnightly briefing, covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector.
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Content ArticleThis survey from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) looks at the experiences of people receiving community mental health services. The 2020 community mental health survey received feedback from 17,601 people who received treatment for a mental health condition between 1 September 2019 and 30 November 2019. This report shows that people are consistently reporting poor experiences of NHS community mental health services, with few positive results. For example, poor experiences were reported for crisis care, accessing care, and involvement. It also found disparity in the experiences of different groups of people, especially among respondents with different diagnoses.
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Constipation can be a life–threatening issue for people with a learning disability who are at heightened risk from complications if it is left untreated. This campaign has been developed by NHS England to support people with a learning disability, their carers and people who work in primary care to recognise the signs of constipation. Resources have been co–created with input from the Down’s Syndrome Association, Mencap and Pathways Associates to ensure that they are fit for purpose. The resources aim to: Drive awareness of the seriousness of constipation Help people recognise the signs of constipation at an early stage Empower people to take action and ensure that people with a learning disability experiencing constipation get the right health support straight away Raise awareness of the steps which can be taken to prevent constipation. -
Content ArticlePeople with a learning disability and autistic people should have the right support in place to live an ordinary life and fulfil their aspirations, in their own home. This action plan from the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) aims to strengthen community support for people with a learning disability and autistic people, and reduce reliance on mental health inpatient care. This action plan outlines the government's policy to achieve this by: strengthening community support. reducing the overall reliance on specialist inpatient care in mental health hospitals. improving the experiences of people with a learning disability and autistic people across public services such as health, social care, education, employment, housing and justice. It brings together the commitments that have been made by different organisations to realise these aims, and aims to drive long-term change for people with a learning disability and autistic people.
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Content ArticleThis report details the findings of a thematic review of Safe and wellbeing reviews (SWRs) between October 2021 and May 2022. SWRs are undertaken for children, young people and adults that are autistic and/or have a learning disability who are being cared for in a mental health inpatient setting. SWRs are part of the NHS response to the safeguarding adults review concerning the tragic deaths of Joanna, Jon, and Ben at Cawston Park Hospital, who were each detained for a long period of time and did not receive appropriate care.
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Content ArticleLiverpool is leading the way in the use of smartphone technology to deliver and monitor care in people’s homes. The city is the first to introduce a digital system with almost all domiciliary care providers – giving instant information about 9,000 vulnerable residents to their families and professionals. The use of an app allows care providers and families to see when a visit is carried out by a carer, for how long and how the person responded.The effect is better informed families and care managers and improved care. Liverpool is the only authority in Europe to be using the technology across its city, with all but one of its 18 domiciliary care providers using everyLIFE PASSsystem. It was made possible through a grant of one million Euros of European Union funding secured through the EU STOPandGO programme of which the Innovation Agency, the Academic Health Science Network for the North West Coast was a key partner.
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Content ArticleUrinary tract infection (UTI) was identified as the main reason to call a GP out-of-hours or to result in an unplanned admission to hospital from residential and nursing homes. Care home staff were using a urine dipstick to diagnose a urinary tract infection then calling a health care professional (HCP) for antibiotics, resulting in inappropriate use of antibiotics and over-treating what is perceived as a UTI in the absence of clinical symptoms.
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Content ArticleA digital tablet intervention to record and communicate data on the health of residents was used in care homes in Sunderland. Between April 2017 and March 2018, a small-scale evaluation compared data between eight of the care homes routinely using the intervention with eight similar care homes who weren’t. The evaluation found that the eight care homes using the intervention made an estimated saving of around £756,144 in A&E attendances and ambulance services during this period.
