#OurDay 2018
This year’s #OurDay will take place on 20 November. Our annual “tweetathon” gives everyone who works or volunteers in local public services the chance to share their stories and demonstrate how they improve the residents’ lives. This is the seventh #OurDay and each year more people have taken part. We want councils to share the date with as many people as possible - let’s make this year’s #OurDay the biggest ever. Keep an eye on @LGAComms to see what we’ve got planned or email ourday@local.gov.uk if you
have any questions.
NHS seasonal influenza vaccination for health and social care staff
NHS England will provide free flu
vaccinations for social care staff and staff in the voluntary managed hospice
sector who offer direct patient care. The vaccination will be available at most community
pharmacies and GP practices. Find out more about free
flu vaccinations for social care and hospice staff.
Winter pressures funding
Colleagues in social care authorities will have received letters confirming their allocations of the £240 million fund to help local areas tackle winter pressures. The full allocations are available on the GOV. UK website. Read the LGA's parliamentary briefing.
Loneliness
The Prime Minister has launched the first cross-Government strategy to tackle loneliness. Plans include encouraging GPs to refer patients to social activities and voluntary services instead of drug-based treatments, and £1.8 million of funding being allocated to increase the number of community spaces available. Read the LGA's response.
Number of very old needing round-the-clock care set to double
The number of adults aged 85 years and older needing round-the-clock care will almost double to 446,000 in England over the next 20 years, a new study has revealed.
Consultation on sale of energy drinks to children
This consultation, which seeks views on a proposed ban on selling energy drinks to children, closes 21 November 2018.
Thinking differently about children and young people
In North West London, GP child health hubs are bringing together primary care, mental health acute and community services to look at all aspects of a child's health and wellbeing.
1,000 days to make a difference
Trudi Mills, Director of Children and Family Health Surrey, discusses the importance of the first 1,000 days of a child's life in beating health inequalities.
Children and young people's mental health: focus group research
As part of the consultation, Transforming children and young people’s mental health provision: a green paper, the Department of Health and Social care has funded a series of focus groups to further understand the views of young people, parents and carers, and professionals.
Supporting innovation and transformation
The LGA has launched a free support offer for councils which includes bespoke support and three programmes: Social
Care Digital Innovation, Design in Social Care, and Social Care Data and Cyber Discovery. Please email socialcaredigital@local.gov.uk for more
information.
NHS Digital announces digital projects in social care
NHS Digital has awarded 18 councils a share of £1.4 million to develop digital projects to support social care. This funding will be used to demonstrate how predictive analytics and information sharing can support people needing social care services. Successful bids include Westminster Council’s plan to use apps and Skype to share appropriate information when discharging from hospital into care and Wolverhampton Council’s proposal to improve intervention by using predictive analytics for early identification of adults with complex morbidities.
Personal Social Services Adult Social Care Survey, England 2017-18
The NHS Digital survey shows that there has been a 1.4 per cent increase in people paying for some of their own care and support since 2016-17. It also shows people’s satisfaction with the care and support they receive, social contact, control over their daily lives and feeling safe.
Official statistics on the Mental Capacity Act 2005, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards, England 2017-18
The NHS Digital report includes the number of applications for Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS), the number completed during the year and the length of time taken to complete applications.
Knowledge Hub, LG Inform and LG Inform Plus
Through the Knowledge Hub (KHub), this
bulletin, and the blog of data specialist Philippa
Lynch we will provide updates and links to new information
available. Using LG Inform and LG Inform Plus the LGA will provide
reports and easy access to information across a range of health and wellbeing
themes. Reports covering health and wellbeing measures for your area
are available through our interactive map. If there are further
resources you would like to see signposted on our website, please email philippa.lynch@local.gov.uk.
Local leadership and accountability
The LGA has published guidance for for children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing services.
State of Care 2017/18
The Care Quality Commission's annual assessment of health and social care in England looks at the trends, shares examples of good and outstanding care, and highlights where care needs to improve.
Sustainability and transformation partnerships in London: An independent review
The King's Fund report reviews the progress made over the past year by London's five sustainability and transformation partnerships (STPs).
Health inequalities: reducing ethnic inequalities
Public Health England has published guidance to support local and national action on ethnic inequalities in health.
Multimorbidity
The Richmond Group of Charities has published a report on multimorbidity to better understand the challenge of people living with multiple conditions.
‘Making it Real’ a framework for how to do personalised care and support
Think Local Act Personal's framework aims to support good personalised care and support for providers, commissioners and people who access services.
National Children and Adult Services Conference 2018
14-16 November 2018 |Manchester
Sustainable Health and Care Forum conference
21 November 2018 | Birmingham
Place-based leadership for health and wellbeing in the West Midlands: accountable care learning to date
14 December 2018 | Birmingham
LGA/ADPH annual public health conference and exhibition 2019
21 March 2019 | London
LGA Annual Conference and Exhibition 2019
2-4 July 2019 | Bournemouth
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