Care Matters: Friday 26 July 2024

Learning to Better Care – Adult Health & Social Care Conference, Peer Review Post Challenge, Heat Health Alert, Sutton Community Fund, Gardening Activities, South West London Social Care: Academy Coordinator, the latest Care Home Information Sharing Webinar and more. Please share.

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• Learning to Better Care – Adult Health & Social Care Conference
• Peer Review Post Challenge
• YELLOW Heat-Health Alert – (Hot weather response) has been issued for London
• Sutton Community Fund
• Gardening Activities
• South West London Social Care: Academy Coordinator – Secondment opportunity until March 2025
• Care Home Information Sharing Webinar – 23rd July
• Clare’s Checklist – A Checklist for people with Learning Disability who have Epilepsy
• Care Home Information Sharing Webinar Update
• Medicines Management Information and Support session is now available to book
• Community Equipment in Care Homes Guidance 2024
• New contact details for dementia support
• Outbreak contact
• NHS Health and Care Volunteer Responders: How to make referrals for people receiving care.
• Have your Say
• Good Infection Prevention Control

Learning to Better Care – Adult Health & Social Care Conference

Thank you to everyone who attended and participated in the conference yesterday. It was really great to see so many of you. We hope you gained something from the day, whether that was from networking, to hearing about a better way to care, or hearing the updates from the presenters. 

Thank you to all our speakers and those who hosted workshops

Material from the presentation will be shared through the normal channels soon.

Peer Review Post Challenge

Dear Providers,

The LGA Peer Challenge team has now completed their review of ASC and we wanted to share some of their initial feedback with you.

• The team recognised that we know ourselves and are ambitious for our people, place and partnerships – where we encounter challenges, we focus on solutions
• They noted the strength of many of our local relationships as well as our partnership approach to prevention
• We have some very good practice and performance in a number of areas, including how we safeguard people. They also noted that we are focused on continually developing our strengths-based practice which we will continue to take forward.

Over the coming weeks we will receive the full report and will use this to prioritise improvements to our services. This has been a great learning opportunity for us all to reflect on how we work together and to prepare for our CQC Assurance. 

We look forward to continuing to work together with you and our staff, partners, providers and residents to keep people safe from harm and meet their needs for care and support in a way that focuses on their strengths.

Kind regards,

Nick Ireland

Strategic Director of People Services

YELLOW Heat-Health Alert – (Hot weather response) has been updated for London and is in effect between 29/07/2024 at 09:00 and 02/08/2024 at 09:00.

Heat Health Alert – 29/07/2024 at 09:00 and 31/07/2024 at 23:00

Sutton Community Fund

The Sutton Community Fund is a grant funding programme financed by Sutton Council with administered by Community Action Sutton. Each application is assessed and grants are awarded by an independent panel. 

Do you have an idea for a small and community focused project that would benefit Sutton residents and meet local priorities?

Your group could apply for up to £5000!

Need to know… 

• Applications for grants from £500 to a maximum of £5,000 will be accepted.
• Only voluntary and community groups and organisations with an income of less than £100,000 can apply.
• The funding is for a maximum of 12 months unless it is a multi-year bid and then it is 3 years with a grant of up to a maximum of £10,000

This year the independent panel are focusing on the following key areas:

• Cost of living – the project helps people to deal with the rising cost of living, particularly groups or communities who are more likely to be affected.
• An inclusive place for everyone – the project promotes equality, diversity and inclusion; this could be through delivering support for specific groups to reduce disadvantages, or taking actions to bring diverse communities together to make positive change or solve a problem.
• Action on climate change – the project promotes or delivers positive actions to reduce carbon emissions in Sutton and encourages people to adopt more sustainable behaviours (e.g. cycling, walking, recycling, reuse etc.).

Aviva and mixed-use developer, Socius are leading the development of the world’s leading district for cancer research and treatment at the London Cancer Hub in Sutton, London.

The proposals include new research facilities and on-site amenities, with the vision of creating a nurturing environment for collaboration, connectivity, and innovation.

As part of the ambitions of the London Cancer Hub, the team wants to think local, be sustainable and make a genuinely positive impact. Key to this commitment is supporting organisations, charities and groups locally.

The team is committing £14,000 towards the Sutton Community Fund to help deliver change within local communities. This will be allocated through the Community Fund Panel and will help deliver social, environmental and economic benefits to Sutton. 

The closing date for applications is 12 noon on Monday 9^th September

Please send applications to [email protected]

Download the guidance

Download the application form

https://www.communityactionsutton.org.uk/funding/sutton-community-fund/#:~:text=The%20Sutton%20Community%20Fund%20is,awarded%20by%20an%20independent%20panel

Gardening Activities

We are asking you to share your gardening activities, ideas and photos so that we showcase this online via the Care Matters monthly newsletter. Please share via [email protected]

Presentation from Linda Mamedy

South West London Social Care: Academy Coordinator

Secondment opportunity until March 2025 with a possible extension until September 2025.

This is a great and exciting role, for someone to lead a wide range of partners from across the six SWL boroughs, the social care sector, employment programmes, education, skills, and training providers, SWL NHS and London ADASS to work together to promote and ensure access to good jobs, training and career opportunities in the social care sector.

Click here to view job profile and specification

Care Home Information Sharing Webinar – 23rd July

Key takeaways from the webinar:

SWL Safeguarding Protocols

Thank you again for your time to discuss the revision of the current Medication, Falls and Pressure Ulcer Protocols across South West London. I attach an example of one of the current protocols from Kingston/Wandsworth and Richmond in case you have not had sight of this, which is the current guidance to be used by all agencies.

As mentioned, we are currently in the process of reviewing this from a South West London perspective in line with recent guidance chances, especially in relation to pressure ulcers (New Guidance – Safeguarding adults protocol: pressure ulcers and raising a safeguarding concern – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) ) and have developed specific flowcharts in line with these key changes.

I attach the draft ‘Community, Residential Care Home & Domiciliary Settings, Shared Lives, Supported Living’ and ‘Nursing Homes’ flowcharts for any comments and feedback.

The key changes to the guidance include;

• Need for completion of the adult safeguarding decision tool by a registered nurse to determine if it meets the threshold to raise concerns
• Need to gain history when identification of multiple category 2, category 3 and 4 pressure ulcers, especially when individual is transferred to the organisation with existing pressure ulcers

Please do not hesitate to contact [email protected] if you would like to discuss this further or would like to support in the review of the protocols relating to medication errors or falls.

Focus Sessions

We have laid out focus sessions for each of our webinars where we will have speakers on these topics. We hope that we include topics that can help you and your staff in your care home. We are always welcome to take on suggestions or topics that you would like to see covered, send an email to [email protected]

Newsletter – Updates and Training

We have attached our newsletter full of updates and information including digital and current training opportunities! Please see attached.

Have your say

We need you to have your say! let us know what topics you would like covering, ask questions and tell us about what is going well, but also what isn’t – because I can ensure you if we don’t have the answer one of you colleagues will have. For feedback and or to suggest topic contact [email protected]

Our next webinar – 6^th August 24

Important Reminder to View the Following: Clare’s Checklist – A Checklist for people with Learning Disability who have Epilepsy in Supported Living, Extra Care Accommodation, Residential and Nursing Homes

Care Home Information Sharing Webinar Update

Dance to Health

Southwest London ICS Partner and Priorities Fund has commissioned Aesop to deliver Dance to Health (DtH), a fall prevention programme using evidence-based techniques and dance. This programme has achieved a 58% reduction in falls for the in-person sessions and continues to engage participants online. Aesop has also been developing and delivering online Care Homes activity since COVID-19.

To find out more, please see the attached Dance to Health letter below.

Overseas Nurses

If you have staff that are trained nursing in the native country, who trained in English and want to convert to the NMC we will fund the costs of the training, with employers being responsible for salary & enabling time to complete. For more information, please see the attached flyer and slides.

Medicines Management Information and Support session is available to book

The primary objective of these online sessions is to provide individuals with the knowledge they require to manage medication safely and confidently.

Dates:

• Monday 16 September 2024
• Monday 4 November 2024
• Monday 13 January 2025
• Monday 24 February 2025

Book here: https://www.aimsol.co.uk/event-details/free-medicines-management-2025-02-24-10-30

Community Equipment in Care Homes Guidance 2024

New contact details for dementia support

https://www.ageuk.org.uk/sutton/our-services/dementia-wellbeing-support/

From April 2024, dementia support in Sutton will be provided by Age UK Sutton. To access support, please contact 020 8078 0002 or email [email protected].

Carers of people with dementia can also contact the Sutton Carers Centre directly via [email protected] or 020 8296 5611.

Outbreak Contact

If you have a suspected or confirmed outbreak of COVID-19, please report it to the health protection team. Advice for outbreak management latest guidance can be found on the care hub.

Health Protection Team:

• HPT Email: ([email protected]) or call: (0300 303 0450)

Have your Say

We want you to have your say. This is an opportunity to ask questions that will be answered by Sutton’s Commissioners or Public Health Team. Please also use the link to the form below if you have any good news stories or activities your residents have taken part in that you would like to be shared on the Carehub.

https://forms.gle/6fY1pHirsC1gnDFAA

Infection prevention control for Adult social care sector

Good infection prevention and control (IPC) practice remains important throughout the year.

Good infection control practices can help reduce the risk of outbreaks occurring. It is important that adult social care providers refer to the guidance on infection prevention and control:

• Infection prevention and control: resource for adult social care
• Infection prevention and control in adult social care: COVID-19 supplement
• Winter-readiness (infection prevention) information for care homes winter pack 2022/23

If you require any infection control support or advise please contact the London borough Sutton public health team: [email protected]

Guidance changes? Help from London Borough of Sutton Public Health team

If you need any help or advice on the changes please contact the London Borough of Sutton Public health team. Send them an email [email protected] 

Webinars and training

IPC training can be found on Eventbrite

Skills for care – Care Certificate
Care Courses Online – Infection Prevention and Control in Healthcare
Social care institute for excellence – Infection control e-learning course

Care home information sharing webinar

Fortnightly on a Tuesday 1:30 – 3pm

The webinar link;
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Sutton Care Hub Job Portal

To support Sutton’s care providers to recruit the best staff for all positions from management, to clinical staff, carers and administrative support, we have created the Sutton Care Hub Job Portal.