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March 2022 edition
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Welcome to the 23rd edition of the Provider Forum information bulletin. We hope that you, your team, family and friends are continuing to keep safe and well during this pandemic.
In lieu of the Provider Forum, we will send out these bulletins regularly summarising updates from Gloucestershire County Council (GCC), Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), as well as local and national initiatives.
Remember, the bulletin is interactive, so make sure you click the links to get the most out of it.
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Have you got something to share?
We would love to hear your feedback or contributions, so if you have anything which you want to share, or have a question to ask us, email us here.
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This guidance (click here) has been assessed to identify potential equality impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on people with mental health problems or a learning disability and/or autism. It is acknowledged that people with mental health needs, a learning disability or autism who contract COVID-19 may require reasonable adjustments, and that the COVID-19 pandemic has the potential to affect mental health and wellbeing.
The Covid Virtual Ward (CVW) has been created to support practices in caring for their patients that have proven or suspected Covid-19 and who fall into the higher risk group of people who may develop severe Covid as their illness progresses and those who are unable to self-monitor or self-escalate.
Potential patients should be actively identified either based on their clinical presentation (suspected Covid patients) or by reviewing patients who have positive Covid test results either by PCR or lateral flow tests.
- The principal pathway is now ‘self-care’ and ‘self-escalation’. Please advise at risk patients where to collect their pulse oximeter and inform them that they must follow the instructions in the accompanying patient advice leaflet.
- Referral to the CVW is now reserved for people you feel may need particular reassurance or who may be unable to self-care and self-escalate should their resting sats drop sufficiently
Eligibility Criteria:
≥ 50 years of age
Or
18 – 49 years of age with any of the follow conditions or characteristics;
- Diabetes
- Known cardiovascular disease
- Active Cancer
- Body Mass Index ≥ 35 kg·m2
- Black, Asian or Minority ethnicity
- Learning disabilities
- Pre-natal
≤ 6 weeks Post-natal
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Each care home and community provider that received a Tranche 1 grant payment from the Infection Control & Testing Fund (Round 3) for infection prevention and control, testing and vaccines has been paid second and final grant payments in the following amounts (together with the references which will appear on the remittances):
• Infection Prevention & Control: £3,975.73 (ICTF3 IC T2)
• Testing: £1,135.58 (IPC TE T2)
• Vaccines: £431.89 (IPC VA T2)
The payments should now be in your bank account.
We are currently going through out internal governance process but will be writing out to providers shortly about they can access this grant funding stream. Grant payments will be made during the week commencing Monday 4th April 2021.
There are still some providers whose signed grant agreement or FTE employee information remains outstanding. Please could you respond with the outstanding items to christine.slade@gloucestershire.gov.uk if you are one of them as a matter of urgency.
The deadline is 5pm on Friday 18th March 2021 after which point no grant payments will be made.
This training is named after Oliver McGowan, whose death highlighted the need for health and social care staff to have better training in learning disabilities and autism.
It is part of a national commitment to develop a standardised training package and Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust (GHC) was one of four national partners appointed to co-design and co-deliver the training for groups of health and social care staff as part of a national pilot.
We're delighted to be continuing Oliver’s training for a little longer and pleased to be able to offer additional Tier 1 and Tier 2 training dates. For more information, please click on this leaflet or click here to visit the website.
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Do you care for someone? What would happen if you got caught in an emergency?
The Carers’ Emergency Scheme is a free service designed to put your mind at rest with access to a 24-hour response line. By registration on the scheme you can either nominate a trusted person to provide emergency support, or we can arrange for professional care workers to step in. You will be given a Carers card with a helpline number to call if an emergency arises and you are unable to carry out your caring role.
The scheme will ensure that the person you care for is supported either by a friend or relative or a support worker.
To find out more information please watch a short video here or visit the website.
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New funding for respite and Supported Internships will come alongside more than £45 million of continued targeted support for families and parents of children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). Click here to read the press release
 This collaborative platform (NHS Futures – click here) contains free to use resources and provides open forum chats as well as private workspace areas for wider collaboration and sharing of ideas and experience.
The new service which will be provided by Rethink Mental Illness, will give support predominantly to families and partners, however support will also be available for friends, colleagues, health and social care professionals, and those who may have witnessed the death. Support will be tailored to the individual’s needs.
The service is being funded through NHS England/Improvement’s national suicide bereavement programme.
The support offered to adults bereaved by suicide includes:
- 1:1 emotional and practical support beginning with six personalised weekly sessions with a Suicide Bereavement Worker, followed by six fortnightly sessions, and an option to extend if needed
- Practical support including help to navigate processes such as talking to police, funeral arrangements, Coroner's Court and inquests, responding to media and support to talk to employers
- Bereavement counselling with volunteer counsellors, beginning with six to eight weekly sessions
- Face to face and virtual bereavement peer support groups facilitated by a Suicide Bereavement Worker and a volunteer with lived experience of suicide. These will help people build connections, tackle the isolation they may be feeling and get support from others with similar experiences
- Signposting and referral to other bereavement services as appropriate.
All support is delivered through a mixture of face to face, virtual channels, phone, email and text to suit the individual’s needs.
Everyone who uses the service has ongoing access to an exclusive online Gloucestershire bereavement by suicide forum hosted by a mental health online peer support platform called Clic. This moderated forum is available 24/7 to help people share experiences and gain peer support.
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To find out more about the service or make a referral for yourself or someone else, please call 07483 375 516, email here or visit the website here.
Proud to Care are speaking regularly with job-seekers interested in care roles at jobs fairs and 1:1 appointments, and are connecting them with suitable providers. The team will be attending jobs fairs in Cirencester, the Forest of Dean and Cheltenham in the next four weeks so please sign up to our Jobs Board if you haven't already, and we can connect you with job-seekers! Click here to sign up and start benefiting from our dedicated Jobs Board.
Proud to Care have just launched a new Career Support Line for job-seekers to help us support people looking to work in care. Find out more here.
We have an active social media presence and are always looking to share job vacancies or good news stories so please get in touch with us if you want us to share your posts or photos, at ptc@gloucestershire.gov.uk
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