What's New Bulletin 91 - 28 April 2022
This is the ninety first weekly provider bulletin, containing information on guidance, procedures and new initiatives. Very urgent or high priority communications may still be issued on an ad hoc basis, but we will try to keep these to a minimum.
- UPDATED GUIDANCE PPE portal: how to order COVID-19 personal protective equipment (PPE) (information for all providers)
- Birmingham City University course for nurses working in social care - Fundamentals in Nursing for Registered Nurses (information for all nursing homes)
- Home Care Cost of Care Toolkit Demonstration and Q+A for Home Care Providers (information for all home support providers)
- Care Home cost of care tool under development – care provider awareness sessions (information for all care homes)
- Be part of the Skills for Care evaluation of resources (information for all providers)
- Skills for Care Joint East and West Midlands Registered Manager meeting Tuesday 07 June 2022 (information for all West Midland providers)
- Age UK Birmingham's Falls Prevention service to continue (information for all home support, supported living and extra care sheltered housing providers)
- Department of Health and Social Care - Have your say on the new Liberty Protection Safeguards – please share information with service users (information for all providers)
- Care Quality Commission (CQC) CitizenLab service – please share information with service users (information for all providers)
- Care Quality Commission (CQC) Shaping our future in partnership with stakeholders (information for all providers)
- Care Quality Commission (CQC) Latest Adult Social Care Webinar (information for all providers)
1. UPDATED GUIDANCE on PPE portal: how to order COVID-19 personal protective equipment (PPE) (information for all providers)
This guidance covers who eligible health and social care providers can order PPE through the portal to meet the increased need that has arisen as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. It has been updated to reflect that the portal used to order PPE has moved to a new platform. The full guidance can be found below;
PPE portal: how to order COVID-19 personal protective equipment (PPE)
2. Birmingham City University course for nurses working in social care - Fundamentals in Nursing for Registered Nurses (information for all nursing homes)
This part-time course will provide students with an introduction to all aspects of Care Home Nursing and will supply students with a solid foundation and understanding to prepare them for the demands of the current Care Home environment. The course will develop their clinical and academic skills and prepare them to develop as a practitioner with a focus on the adult resident in nursing and care home settings, alongside generic community and primary care skills, leading the delivery of quality care. The awards available for this course include an Advanced Diploma, BSc or Graduate Certificate.
For further information, a flyer (Flyer FPCN NH 22) has been circulated to providers. If you don't have a copy, please email marketintelligence@birmingham.gov.uk
3. Home Care Cost of Care Toolkit Demonstration and Q+A for Home Care Providers (information for all home support providers)
ADASS and the Local Government Association have been working with ARCC to develop a homecare cost of care toolkit. The Care and Health Improvement Programme are running 2 webinars where the developer of the Home Care Cost of Care Toolkit, ARCC, will talk through how the tool works. These sessions are 90 mins, split evenly between ARCC demonstrating the Home Care Cost of Care Toolkit and how it should be completed and then taking general Q&A queries. This sessions are for a care provider audience only and are free for all to attend. The sessions are repeats of each other so individuals only need to attend one.
Home Care Cost of Care Toolkit
Please click the links below to register for the session, then select Book Now at the top of the Event Page. When registering, please select non-member organisation and enter your details as requested. Please do check your junk mail inboxes for sign up confirmations and if there are any issues with registering, do email Marketsandcommissioning@local.gov.uk
Home Care CoC Toolkit Demo and Q&A – 11 May from 10am to 11:30am
Home Care CoC Toolkit Demo and Q&A – 19 May from 10am to 11.30am
4. Care Home cost of care tool under development – care provider awareness sessions (information for all care homes)
ADASS and the Local Government Association have commissioned a company called iESE to develop a care home cost of care tool which will be free for all Councils and providers to use. The tool is currently under development. Open sessions are being run for all care providers to give more information about the tool and to give an update on its development. To book onto one of these sessions, you will need to register your interest by clicking the link below. Upon registration you will receive a confirmation email with the link to join the session.
Fair Cost of Care Tool - Care Providers - Register interest
5. Be part of the Skills for Care evaluation of resources (information for all providers)
Skills for Care will be evaluating the following resources from May – September 2022:
- Practical approaches to operational workforce planning – for adult social care providers or commissioners to use with providers
- Workforce transformation outcomes measurement framework - for adult social care providers and commissioners
- Social care workforce productivity and quality model - for adult social care providers and commissioners
To facilitate this work, they will be looking to speak to employers or commissioners who have used any of these documents. Skills for Care will be using a variety of methods to get the information including: individual interviews, focus groups for pre - existing groups and finally, there will also be a survey option. Interviews can be anytime from May 4 2022 onwards until the end of June, and the survey will be open from May 9 2022
If you are interested in taking part, please contact; Renny.Wodynska@skillsforcare.org.uk
6. Skills for Care Joint East and West Midlands Registered Manager meeting Tuesday 07 June 2022 (information for all West Midland providers)
The Skills for Care Midlands area team would like to invite you to the next virtual network meeting for registered managers on Tuesday 7 June 2022, 9:30am to 11am. The meeting will be focused on a new online resource to help prepare for Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspections.
In the meeting Skills for Care will:
- introduce the ‘Inspection toolkit’ which is a new online resource that aims to help social care providers prepare for Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspections
- have someone from the CQC who will talk about what they look for in outstanding providers.
This meeting is for care providers who have an ASC-WDS account. By having an ASC-WDS account and updating your data at least once per year, you are helping the whole.
To find out more about the meeting, and to book your place, follow this link below:
Joint East and West Midlands Registered Managers' Meeting
7. Age UK Birmingham's Falls Prevention service to continue (information for all home support, supported living and extra care sheltered housing providers)
The Home Falls Prevention Service supports older people to reduce the risks of a fall at home by fitting equipment and making small changes around the house. The service and equipment is funded by the CCG and provided free of charge. The following eligibility requirements apply;
- Be aged over 50 (and adults over 18 living with a life limiting disability) and;
- Be registered with a participating GP and;
- Be vulnerable to falls due to health, security or safety
- Priority given to people unable to leave hospital until home is made safe for them to return to.
A leaflet, poster and referral form have been circulated to providers. If you don't have copies, please email marketintelligence@birmingham.gov.uk
8. Department of Health and Social Care - Have your say on the new Liberty Protection Safeguards – please share information with service users (information for all providers)
The government is updating the Mental Capacity Act Code of Practice and considering a new system of safeguards – the Liberty Protection Safeguards. This new system will replace the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards. They want to know what service users think about the new system they have designed.
The government knows that not everyone will want to fill out the consultation survey. Because of this, they will also be holding some online events. These events will give people with lived experience of the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards and the Mental Capacity Act the opportunity to tell the government what they think about the Liberty Protection Safeguards and what this might mean for them.
The online events will be roughly two and half hours long, with half an hour for breaks. The events will be run by the Department of Health and Social Care. They will be led by Hilary Paxton who has previously led events for people with lived experience about the Liberty Protection Safeguards.
Consultation:Changes to the MCA Code of Practice and implementation of the LPS
Consultation:Changes to the law and guidance about making your own decisions (easy read)
Register your interest in attending events for people with lived experience
9. Care Quality Commission (CQC) CitizenLab service – please share information with service users (information for all providers)
The CQC CitizenLab service helps shape the work that they do. CitizenLab gives service users an easy way to get involved with the work or the CQC and share their ideas and opinions. The CQC use it to bring together groups of people, collect views, conduct surveys and run quick polls. What service users tell the CQC helps them to understand the things that are important to service users. The CQC can use what they learn to make their services and information better for everyone.
At the moment, projects on CitizenLab include:
A panel to influence CQC's work on mental health services
This is an opportunity to join a panel, run by CQC, of people who have experience of being detained under the Mental Health Act, in the last 2 years.
The Access-Able Panel brings together people with experience of using health and social care services who deliver a diverse range of expertise, knowledge and skills to a range of accessibility issues. If your service users would like to find out more about these projects or other work taking place on CitizenLab, please encourage them to sign up using the link below;
When they join, they will be sent an email when new information or projects are added. They can also sign in to see what activities are currently live and ready for you to take part in’
10. Care Quality Commission (CQC) Shaping our future in partnership with stakeholders (information for all providers)
In his new blog Chris Day, Director of Engagement at CQC talks about the approaches we are taking to implement our new strategy and transform how we’ll regulate.
To get this work right the CQC need to develop our new ways of working in collaboration with you, and other people who work in health and social care, the public and other stakeholders. The CQC are doing this through co-production webinars, focus groups, stakeholder reference groups, user research and their digital engagement platform CitizenLab.
CQC digital engagement platform CitizenLab
11. Care Quality Commission (CQC) Latest Adult Social Care Webinar (information for all providers)
Kate Terroni, Chief Inspector of Adult Social Care was joined by Deputy Chief Inspector;Rob Assall;and Dave James, Head of Adult Social Care Policy on CQC's recent webinar about inspection priorities, their focus of work and new regulatory model.
See part one and part two on our YouTube channel, which includes a Q and A with our inspection team answering attendees top questions live.