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This issue contains information about posters Healthwatch Devon are sending to care homes for feedback from residents and their relatives, and Wellbeing Buddy training available for all care staff staff during August and September. Please also take a minute to complete the Community Pharmacy Services survey to help understand how pharmacies are used now and what is required in the future.
We do our best to keep the content and structure of our PEN website up-to-date in these fast-changing times and your suggestions on how to improve the website are always welcome.
Healthwatch Devon is the local statutory health and social care independent consumer champion, with a brief to understand the needs, experiences and concerns of people who use health and social care services and to speak out on their behalf.
Along with Healthwatch in Plymouth and Torbay, Healthwatch Devon will be sending out information posters to care homes to display to enable residents and relatives to share their experiences, along with a jcovering letter for managers which includes contact details for Healthwatch if there are any questions you wish to raise with them.
Thank you for displaying the posters, further information about Healthwatch Devon can be found at www.healthwatchdevon.co.uk
Wellbeing Buddy Training from the Devon Wellbeing Hub - August and September dates now available
The Devon Wellbeing Hub are offering a one-day course to train colleagues to become Wellbeing Buddies. Wellbeing Buddies (also known as Wellbeing Champions) support the wellbeing of colleagues within their organisation.
We are pleased to share we now have some training dates available for colleagues who are interested:
- Tuesday 27 August – 9.30am-4.30pm
- Tuesday 24 September – 9.30am-4.30pm
Both sessions will take place in person at Health Innovation South West, Pynes Hill, Exeter.
The training will be led by our Colleague Wellbeing Practitioners and explores a number of topics, including the role of a Wellbeing Buddy, effective wellbeing conversations, signposting and supporting your own wellbeing.
Please note, colleagues will need to get approval from their line manager and complete the attached ‘Wellbeing Buddy Agreement’ form before signing up. Once complete, this will need to be sent back to dpt.devonwellbeing@nhs.net with the session they’d like to attend.
More information can be found in this PowerPoint.
The national Home Care Association has now published the results of its latest workforce survey, which can be found at: https://www.homecareassociation.org.uk/resource/workforce-survey-2024.html
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Community pharmacy makes up one of the four pillars of the primary care system in England, along with general practice, optical services and dentistry. It is arguably most well-known as a dispenser and retailer of medicines, but its role is in fact much broader and includes other NHS and publicly funded services.
Community pharmacies can be found in many high street locations, in supermarkets or attached to doctors’ surgeries. There are also a range of online community pharmacies.
There has been a great deal of change in community pharmacies, the services they provide and how they are funded. In Devon we currently have 202 community pharmacies. In the last 12 months, 22 community pharmacies have closed.
NHS Devon is now responsible for the commissioning of community pharmacy services and to best serve the Devon population, we are in the process of writing a community pharmacy strategy.
To help understand how pharmacies are used now and what we need for the future, we would appreciate if you could complete this survey.
If you need help to complete this survey or would like to request another format, please contact v.mitchell7@nhs.net.
If you wish to know more about community pharmacies and the work that we are doing, please visit the ICB Community Pharmacy webpage.
Thank you for your valuable feedback.
Good news story - Northam's Super Summer Fete
The Northam Care Trust in North Devon held their yearly Summer Fete on the 6th of July where they raised an incredible £1,139.50 (a record amount for this event)! The trust would like to thank everyone involved with the event and everyone who attended and supported us on the day, this is a true testament to the supportive community we have around us.
The funds raised from the event will go towards their aim of building a hydrotherapy pool onsite at Rosehill. This will be a fully accessible pool for adults with learning disabilities, physical disabilities, or complex needs in the local community and surrounding areas. This is a huge project for The Trust and every penny donated/fundraised counts! If you’d like to support this project, follow the link below:
https://linktr.ee/thenorthamcaretrust?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
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