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Issue 356: 27 February 2024
This bulletin covers:
*Training and development:* home care and single assessment framework; reducing health inequalities; quality of life tool
*Workforce: *investing in learning
*Care homes:* care home huddle; self-care and homely remedies
*Health and wellbeing:* COVID-19 day of reflection
*Get involved: *life transitions
*Digital social care:* data security protection toolkit
*Have your say:* leaving hospital
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Training and development
Home care and single assessment framework
Join East Sussex and Brighton & Hove Registered Care Association for this webinar for home care providers, around the single assessment framework.
Representatives from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) will talk about what the new approach means for you and your service.
It’s on *20 March *and runs from *10:00am* to *11:30am.*
Register your place on TicketSource [
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Reducing health inequalities
NHS Sussex is offering a training event aimed at making your services inclusive of people with a learning disability.
It’s called ‘reducing health inequalities for people with a learning disability and/or autism’ and it’s on *04 March *from *2:00pm* to *3:00pm.*
Book your place on Eventbrite [
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*Quality of life tool *
Care Quality Commission (CQC) has produced a ‘quality of life tool [
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Providers can use it to assess the quality of support they are providing to people with a learning disability and autistic people.
CQC wants to improve its ability to consistently identify and take appropriate regulatory action in services that fail or are failing to meet the needs, aspirations and skills development of people with a learning disability and/or autistic people.
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Workforce
Investing in learning and development
Skills for Care has written an article around what data tells us about how learning and development helps to keep staff.
Check out the blog [
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Care homes
Care home huddle
Join us tomorrow, *28 February*, at *11:00am* for our regular care home huddle.
This month’s speakers are:
* Helen Cheney and Sharon Champion from our Public Health team, on the COVID-19 vaccination programme
* PC Rebecca Pitt, Sussex Police, on the missing persons’ Herbert Protocol [
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You can also subscribe
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Self care and homely remedies
If you work in a care home and manage and administer medication, this training is for you.
These free online sessions run monthly and cover self care, homely remedy and personal care medications/items.
Sessions are accompanied by resources which can be adapted to suit the individual needs of the care home.
The next session is on *07 March *at *2:30pm*. You don’t need to book in advance.
The training is run by Sussex Community NHS Foundation trust Medicines Optimisation in Care Homes (MOCH) team.
More information: sc-tr.moch-eastsussex@nhs.net
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Health and wellbeing
COVID-19 day of reflection
Encouraging people to come together to remember those who died during the COVID-19 outbreak is the purpose of the 2024 day of reflection.
Organised by Marie Curie on *03 March*, the aim is that bereaved people can take a moment to acknowledge their grief, and have time and space to reflect, commemorate, and support one another.
More information:
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Get involved
Life transitions service: call for volunteers
Our life transitions service is looking for volunteers.
This service helps people prepare for significant changes in later life such as retiring, moving home, finding a new career, or experiencing a bereavement.
You don’t need to be an expert on ‘life transitions’ – training and support will be provided.
Jo Sachon, life transitions manager, said: “We are looking for individuals that can build warm, trusting, and constructive relationships. Individuals who are interested in people’s lives so that they feel comfortable and supported enough to talk about ageing and later life.”
More information: life transitions [
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If you would like to volunteer or know someone who would, you can email LifeTransitions@eastsussex.gov.uk or call 07724 287034.
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Digital social care
Data security protection toolkit
Would you like some help to complete the data security protection toolkit (DSPT)? If so, Sussex digital in reach team are staging four free online events around each section of the DSPT:
*06 March*: staffing and roles
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*13 March: *policies and procedures
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*20 March: *data security
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*27 March: *IT systems and devices
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All sessions run from *1:30pm* to *2:30 pm*
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Have your say
Leaving hospital
As part of the Sussex Carers Partnership (Brighton & Hove, East Sussex and West Sussex), Care for the Carers wants to hear from carers about their experience of helping someone they care for through the ‘leaving hospital’ process.
Your thoughts will be part of an anonymous report shared with NHS partners.
The survey [
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