1. ACTION NEEDED OUTSTANDING RETURNS Infection Control and Testing Fund round 3 – Final spend reporting (information for all Birmingham providers)
2. ACTION NEEDED OUTSTANDING RETURNS Workforce Recruitment and Retention Fund round 1 and 2 – Final spend reporting (information for all Birmingham providers)
3. Please ensure you are continuing to report Covid positive cases at your service (information for all providers)
4. Infection prevention and control in adult social care: COVID-19 supplement (information for all providers)
5. Capacity Tracker Changes (information for all providers)
6. EXTENDED DEADLINE Department of Health and Social Care - Care Market Survey 9 May 2022 (information for all providers)
7. Bereavement awareness for health care professions FREE webinar 10 May 2022 1pm to 2pm (information for all providers)
8. Staff wellbeing and caring for each other for care home staff FREE webinar 21 June 2022 1pm to 2pm (information for all Care Homes)
9. Care Quality Commission (CQC) Smiling Matters: Oral Health in Care Homes follow up report (information for all Care Homes)
10. REMINDER Home Care Cost of Care Toolkit Demonstration and Q+A for Home Care Providers (information for all home support providers)
11. REMINDER Care Home cost of care tool under development – care provider awareness sessions (information for all care homes)
12. REMINDER NHSmail Drop-in Sessions, Hosted by The NHSmail team at NHS Digital (information for all providers)

1. ACTION NEEDED OUTSTANDING RETURNS Infection Control and Testing Fund round 3 – Final spend reporting (information for all Birmingham providers)

Further to the distribution of Infection Control and Testing Fund 3 grant payments, a significant number of care homes and community care locations have not submitted spend returns as required by the grant conditions. Please check the attached lists which detail those locations which had not submitted returns as at 25 April 2022 and complete and submit the spend return using the links to the online forms below. N.B. the attachments contain two tabs – one for care homes and one for community care locations.

If spend returns are not received by 20 May 2022 you will not be able to submit a return and we shall initiate the process to invoice you for the return of the full grant amount.

Care Homes ICTF final spending report

Community Care ICTF final spending report

Please ensure that you input the correct CQC location name and ID number when completing the forms. Incorrect details will render the form invalid and it will be classified as a non-return.

2. ACTION NEEDED OUTSTANDING RETURNS Workforce Recruitment and Retention Fund round 1 and 2 – Final spend reporting (information for all Birmingham providers)

Further to the distribution of the Workforce Recruitment and Retention Fund round 1 and 2 grant funding, a significant number of care homes and community care locations have not submitted spend returns as required by the grant conditions. Please check the attached lists which detail those locations which had not submitted returns as at 25 April 2022 and complete and submit the spend return using the links to the online forms below. N.B. the attachments contain two tabs – one for care homes and one for community care locations.

If spend returns are not received by 20 May 2022 you will not be able to submit a return and we shall initiate the process to invoice you for the return of the full grant amount.

Workforce Recruitment and Retention Fund round 1 and 2 final spending report

There is a single form covering both care homes and community care locations – please ensure that you input the correct CQC location name and ID number when completing the forms. Incorrect details will render the form invalid and it will be classified as a non-return.

3. Please ensure you are continuing to report Covid positive cases at your service (information for all providers)

This is a reminder that social care providers are still required to inform Birmingham City Council’s Health Protection Response (HPR) Team of all positive cases as Covid19 is a notifiable disease. Checklists should be sent to contacttracing@birmingham.gov.uk as soon as possible.

Providers are also required to continue to update the National Capacity Tracker with all positive cases. This information is still being used locally and nationally to monitor Covid-19 cases in social care settings.

If you have questions or queries regarding how to update the data and where to report specific scenarios, please contact capacitytracker-guidance@dhsc.gov.uk

If you are experiencing technical issues with Capacity Tracker, please contact necsu.capacitytracker@nhs.net or the Capacity Tracker Support Centre on 0191-691-3729.

4. Infection prevention and control in adult social care: COVID-19 supplement (information for all providers)

This guidance sets out how to reduce the spread of COVID-19 in adult social care settings in England. The ‘COVID-19 supplement to the infection prevention and control resource for adult social care’ has been updated to reflect the latest guidance on symptoms and aerosol-generating procedures. Added further information on testing and PPE for live-in carers. The full guidance can be found below;

Infection prevention and control in adult social care: COVID-19 supplement

5. Capacity Tracker Changes (information for all providers)

As of the 3 May 2022, 3 question response options have been removed from the IPC Weekly Visitor questions around the Burdens/Barriers to visiting.

See further details of What's New available from the Resource Centre

6. EXTENDED DEADLINE Department of Health and Social Care - Care Market Survey 9 May 2022 (information for all providers)

On 7 September 2021, the Prime Minister announced changes that will affect the care home and home care provider market. To help understand this market better, DHSC is asking care home and home care providers to complete their survey now available within the Capacity Tracker; Care Home and Home Care providers can access the survey from their respective Manage your care homes or Manage your home care provider pages. The deadline for responding has been extended to 5pm Monday 9 May 2022. The survey is an opportunity for providers to share information about who is receiving care in their service and information about that care. This will help DHSC to understand what its reforms will mean in practice for residents, service users, and provider businesses. It will also help monitor how reform is affecting the care market in the coming months.

If you have any further questions relating to the DHSC Care Home and Home Care Markets Survey, please email:capacitytrackerfeeratesurvey@dhsc.gov.uk

The Capacity Tracker can be accessed below:

National Capacity Tracker

If you have questions or queries regarding how to update the data and where to report specific scenarios, please contact capacitytracker-guidance@dhsc.gov.uk If you are experiencing technical issues with Capacity Tracker, please contact necsu.capacitytracker@nhs.net or the Capacity Tracker Support Centre on 0191-691-3729.

7. Bereavement awareness for health care professions FREE webinar 10 May 2022 1pm to 2pm (information for all providers)

Commissioned by Birmingham & Solihull CCG, and in collaboration with Marie Curie and St Giles Hospice, these live webinars are delivered by The Hospice Charity Partnership (Birmingham St Mary’s Hospice and John Taylor Hospice) by local palliative care experts. The live webinar is free to join and will enable you to share and learn from your own and other healthcare professionals experiences. The session will equip you with the tools and resources you need to confidently manage challenging situations that may arise when caring for patients with palliative care needs.

For further information, please see the flyer that has been circulated to providers. If you don't have a copy, please email marketintelligence@birmingham.gov.uk

Book a place on the End of Life and Palliative Care webinar

Birmingham and Solihull CCG have requested that all staff booking onto these sessions complete personalisation training ahead of attending the training, for further information go to the link below:

Personalised Care Institute

8. Staff wellbeing and caring for each other for care home staff FREE webinar 21 June 2022 1pm to 2pm (information for all Care Homes)

Commissioned by Birmingham & Solihull CCG in collaboration with Marie Curie and St Giles Hospice, this live webinar will be delivered by The Hospice Charity Partnership (Birmingham St Mary’s and John Taylor Hospice) by local Palliative Care experts! The webinar is free to join and will enable you to share and learn from your own and other healthcare professionals experiences. The sessions will equip you with the tools and resources you need to confidently manage challenging situations that may arise when caring for patients with palliative care needs.

You can expect to learn:

• Identifying and acknowledging distress in yourself and others

• Practical tools for supporting yourself and your colleagues

• Self-care tips and empathetic communication

Click on the link below to book a place on the webinar:

STAFF WELLBEING AND CARING FOR EACH OTHER WEBINAR FOR CARE HOME STAFF Tickets, Tuesday 21 June 2022 at 1pm | Eventbrite

9. Care Quality Commission (CQC) Smiling Matters: Oral Health in Care Homes follow up report (information for all Care Homes)

In June 2019 we published our Smiling Matters: Oral Health in Care Homes report, which investigated the state of oral health in care homes.

Our key findings from the report were:

• Nearly half (47%) of care homes were not providing any staff training to support people's daily oral healthcare.
• 17% of care homes visited said they did not assess people's oral health on admission.
• The majority (52%) of the care homes visited had no policy to promote and protect people's oral health.

We made a commitment to follow up on the recommendations we made in the report to see how much progress has been made and what areas need further support. On future inspections we will be focusing on this issue and hope to see improvements on how oral health is provided for care home residents. Our findings will be published in a follow-up report this year.

10. REMINDER 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

11. REMINDER 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

12. REMINDER NHSmail Drop-in Sessions, Hosted by The NHSmail team at NHS Digital (information for all providers)

The NHSmail team now offer care providers a weekly drop-in session to support with NHSmail queries. There will be no agenda or slides, this is an open session to give care providers the opportunity to ask questions about NHSmail, directly to the NHSmail team, just pop in, ask your question and leave once you have your answer. No registration is required to attend but please note this session is for care providers only and not those in supportive roles for NHSmail.

Please click on the link below to join the session on the day.

Every Wednesday between 11am and 12pm. Click the link below to join the meeting

Join an NHS Mail drop-in session