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The most up-to-date information from these bulletins can be found on our website.
For general advice about COVID-19 please go to: nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
This bulletin covers:
Social care reform: fair cost of care review; cap on care costs consultation; liberty protection safeguards
COVID-19 guidance and updates: mask wearing; capacity tracker
Care home huddle: join us next week
Workforce: #HappyHealthyWorkforce
Health and wellbeing: heatwave plan
Events: learning disability week
Social care reform
East Sussex fair cost of care review
An online question and answer session about the fair cost of care review in East Sussex took place on 15 June, and you can now watch it back on YouTube.
The session was for representatives from older people’s care homes (65+) and home care providers (18+): these are the provider types which the Department of Health and Social Care has included in the fair cost of care exercise.
Care Analytics is undertaking the review on our behalf and analysing the results of the fair cost of care surveys sent out on 10 June.
This work will inform the amount of Department of Health and Social Care ‘fair cost of care’ grant monies available to us for 2023-24 onwards.
The more care homes and home care providers which respond to the survey, the more accurately we will be able to develop a robust evidence base to improve the sustainability of the local care home and home care market.
Surveys should be returned to contact@careanalytics.co.uk by 01 July.
Any questions?
Queries about:
East Sussex Registered Care Association (RCA) is planning to offer some support to any providers who may need it to complete the survey. The RCA will let providers know about this offer in its next newsletter and information will be on its website: East Sussex RCA
Lifetime cap on care costs consultation
The government added its response (15 June) to the supporting local preparation part of the consultation outcome on operational guidance to implement a lifetime cap on care costs.
Liberty protection safeguards
The latest information on progress towards the implementation of the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) was updated on 14 June with a link to the summary of the LPS national steering group meeting in May 2022.
COVID 19 guidance and updates
Mask wearing
You may have seen that some health care organisations are no longer requiring masks to be worn in certain areas of their setting, or at all.
We would just like to remind everyone that currently, guidance remains unchanged for care settings.
Face masks should be worn by all care workers and should also be encouraged for visitors to care homes, irrespective of whether the person being cared for is known, or suspected to have, COVID-19.
Capacity tracker
From 31 July, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) will require regulated social care services to provide information on a monthly basis via the Capacity Tracker.
DHSC will send information about this directly to providers, along with a set of frequently asked questions (FAQs).
Meanwhile, there are 30 minute training events for people who are new to Capacity Tracker, or for those who need clarification on information they need to input. The sessions will cover how to register and log on, where to update information and how to find additional help.
You would only need to attend one session, and they all start at 2:00pm
Care homes:
28 June Join the meeting
12 July Join the meeting
Home care:
30 June Join the meeting
14 July Join the meeting
Care home huddle
Join us next week
Join us next week for our monthly care home huddle. It’s on 29 June and starts at 11:00am.
There’ll be presentations from guest speakers, public health updates and access to a question and answer session with a clinical lead.
If you have any questions, please email esxccg.carehomehuddle@nhs.net by 27 June.
Join the meeting
Workforce
Keeping a happy and healthy workforce
29 June is also the date for a Skills for Care online session on keeping a happy and healthy workforce.
Speakers will talk about how to overcome barriers to keeping people; alongside discussion about values, culture, induction, supervision, development and wellbeing. #HappyHealthyWorkplace
The session runs from 10:00am to 12:45pm
Book your place
Health and wellbeing
Heatwave plan
The heatwave plan for England aims to prepare, alert and prevent people from the preventable health impacts from severe heat: Beat the heat: staying safe in hot weather.
There are also resources for care homes:
Supporting vulnerable people before and during a heatwave: for care home managers and staff
And for health and social care professionals:
Supporting vulnerable people before and during a heatwave
Events
Learning disability week
It’s learning disability week.
Organised by the charity Mencap, this year’s theme is ‘living life with a learning disability’.
Mencap says: “We want to show how people with a learning disability are reconnecting with friends and their communities. We also want to talk about the issues many people still face after the end of COVID restrictions, like still having to isolate or dealing with poor mental health and anxiety.”
Locally, you can take a look at our Learning Disability Partnership Board Facebook page to see how the Involvement Matters Team, our reference group for adults with a learning disability, is supporting learning disability week.
The Involvement Matters Team is a group of self-advocates with a learning disability who work together to discuss issues that affect adults with a learning disability. The group gets involved in making services better and making sure the views of people with a learning disability in East Sussex are represented locally and nationally.
We’re always keen to increase the number of ‘experts by experience’, on the group, especially to include and represent people with a learning disability from different backgrounds and cultures.
You can find out more about joining the group and read their easy read leaflet or contact Jeanette Gallivan-Young: 01273 336 872 or jeanette.gallivan-young@eastsussex.gov.uk.
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