1. Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Champion - Poster Competition - Bare Below The Elbow (information for all IPC Champions in Birmingham and Solihull care homes)

2. Digital Social Care Marketplace Event – Wednesday 21 June 2023 (information for all CQC registered care providers in Birmingham and Solihull)

3. Changes in Area Two Provider Forum dates in June 2023 (information for contracted care providers linked to the Area Two Commissioning Team)

4. Clean Air Zone - end of residents exemptions 31st May 2023 (information for all care providers operating in the Birmingham Clean Air Zone)

1.Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Champion - Poster Competition - Bare Below The Elbow (information for all IPC Champions in Birmingham and Solihull care homes)

We would like to thank everyone who attended the IPC Champions Training on Friday 5 May 2023. The team were pleased to see how many people turned up and and took part.

To our IPC Champions who attended our previous events we’d like to inform you of our poster competition. We are inviting IPC Care Home Champions and their teams to design a poster to raise awareness of “Bare Below the Elbow”

Please see the details on the attached flyer for further details and remember to submit your Posters to ipcdata@nhs.net by the Monday 12 June

We would also like to take this opportunity to continue to wish you well in your IPC Champion role and remind you that we are here to support you as and when required.

David Sewell, Senior Administrator

Infection Prevention and Control

2.Digital Social Care Marketplace Event – Wednesday 21 June 2023 (information for all CQC registered care providers in Birmingham and Solihull)

Further information about this subject has been circulated to providers. If you don’t have a copy, please email marketintelligence@birmingham.gov.uk

3.Changes in Area Two Provider Forum dates in June 2023 (information for contracted care providers linked to the Area Two Commissioning Team)

The dates for Area Two June Forums have been altered – please see the new dates, times & venues here:

Area Two – Ladywood and Perry Barr | Who to contact in the commissioning team | Birmingham City Council

Contacts details for the Area Teams, Forum dates and how to identify which team covers your service, are all available here:

Area Commissioning Teams – Contact and Care Provider Forum information | Who to contact in the commissioning team | Birmingham City Council

4. Clean Air Zone - end of residents exemptions 31 May 2023 (information for all care providers operating in the Birmingham Clean Air Zone)

As some of you may be aware, the temporary exemption period for residents living within the Clean Air Zone is due to end on 31 May 2023. After that point, any previously exempt non-compliant vehicles for residents will be subject to the daily charge. Full details of Birmingham’s Clean Air Zone, including its location, can be found on our Brum Breathes website, here:

https://www.brumbreathes.co.uk/info/25/welcome-2/45/charges-operation-1

We have undergone a process of reminders to those individuals who are in a receipt of exemptions and we are keen to ensure we have taken every available route in order reach all relevant drivers.One aspect of this process has involved a recurrent series of reminders sent to the email addresses we hold from the successful exemption applications. Anyone in possession of a existing residents exemption should now have received several reminders of its termination, with more reminders due to be sent out between now and 31 May 2023.

If you have any questions, please email cleanair@birmingham.gov.uk.