Leicestershire Adult Social Care Provider E-bulletins
- Leicestershire County Council updates
- Season’s Greetings from the Director of Adult Social Care
- Guidance and good practice
- Top Tips for Accessing the NHS over Christmas
- Learning and development
- Safeguarding Matters Briefing
- Publications
- Adults & Communities Engagement Panel Newsletter
- Health and wellbeing
- Reminder - When and how to use face masks
- Spring 2025 COVID-19 Vaccination Programme
- Reminders
- Next edition
- Useful links
2024 E-bulletins for care providers
- Guidance and good practice
- Increase in the outbreaks of Scabies – reporting guidance
- Storage of Controlled Drugs
- Leicestershire County Council updates
- Gifts to Leicestershire County Council Staff
- Additional Funding for Whzan Blue Boxes
- Learning and development
- Free Webinar for International Recruitment Support
- Mental Capacity Act Provider Forums
- Health and wellbeing
- Covid Antiviral Communications
- Message in a Bottle
- Consultation and research
- Can you help shape the future of local health and care services for people with a learning disability and autistic people?
- Events
- Safeguarding Matters Live – 11 December
- Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland (LLR) draft Suicide Prevention Strategy, 2024-2029
- Reminders
- Next edition
- Useful links
- Leicestershire County Council updates
- Provider engagement on fees for next financial year
- Provider teleconferences for 2025
- Learning and development
- Being prepared for CQC assessment
- Health and wellbeing
- ChatAutism Text Message Support Service
- Movember
- Consultation and research
- Can you help shape the future of local health and care services for people with a learning disability and autistic people?
- Events
- World Aids Day – 1st December 2024
- Carer Rights Day – 21st November 2024
- Reminders
- Next edition
- Useful links
Guidance and good practice
- Leicestershire County Council Trading Standards News
- New ‘What is Adult Safeguarding?' - session now available to book
Leicestershire County Council updates
- PBS Provider Network
- Provider Portal single sign on
- Home Care Await Care list
Learning and development
- Adult Social Care Learning and Development Support Scheme
- Skills For Care – how to access funding to support staff training webinar
Opportunities
- Social Care Nurse Recruitment and Retention resources
Health and wellbeing
- LLR online vaccination hub launches to support local people
- Mouth Cancer Action Month
- Winter Pressures
Consultations and research
- Have your say on the refreshed Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland (LLR) draft Suicide Prevention Strategy, 2024-2029
Events
- Nominated individuals – Online annual national event 2024
Commemoration, celebration and awareness raising
- Islamophobia Awareness Month - APNA, British Islamic Medical Associate
- UK Disability History Month – 14 November to 20 December
Reminders
- Transport help for Covid-19 and flu vaccinations
- Next edition
- Useful links
- Guidance and good practice
- Controlled Drugs Liaison Officer for Care Homes
- Learning and development
- Learning Disability Health Needs Training for Providers – 4 December 2024
- Leicestershire Social Care Development (LSCDG)
- External Providers Training Online briefing 5 November 2024 – 10:00am to 12noon MS Teams
- Health and wellbeing
- Cervical Screening
- Specialist Seasonal Vaccination Clinics for Patients with a Learning Disability
- World Menopause Day – 18 October
- Consultations and research
- Secure email for the Adult Social Care Sector Survey
- Reminders
- Next edition
- Useful links
- The future of adult social care
- Guidance and good practice
- eVisa
- Reporting unwitnessed falls where injury has occurred
- Leicestershire County Council updates
- CQC Assessment of LCC Adult Social Care Services
- Financial sustainability
- Pension credit support
- Health and wellbeing
- Adult Social Care winter letter to Directors of Adult Social Care
- Awards
- Care Professional of the Year Awards 2024
- Reminders
- Next edition
- Useful links
- The future of adult social care
- Adults and Communities Strategy – have your say
- Learning and development
- Learning and Development Support Scheme (LDSS)
- Health and wellbeing
- NHS England has set out their Winter priorities for 2024
- Amber weather warning issued for Leicestershire
- The future of adult social care
- Adults and Communities Strategy – have your say
- Guidance and good practice
- International Infection Prevention Week 2024, 13-19 October 2024
- Vaccination
- Leicestershire County Council updates
- Reporting unwitnessed falls where injury has occurred
- Learning and development
- Adult Social Care Learning and Development Support Scheme (LDSS)
- Consultations and research
- Palliative and end of life care services provided in Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland
- Events
- EMCARE annual care conference 2024
- Regional care alliance event
- LLR winter wellbeing festival – 4 November 2024
- Commemoration, celebration and awareness raising
- World Suicide Prevention Day – 10 September 2024
- International Day of Older People - 1 October 2024
- Guidance and good practice
- Autumn/winter 2024/25 flu and COVID-19 seasonal vaccination programme
- Leicestershire County Council updates
- Changes to Professional Portal referrals
- Communications and engagement on public health
- Trading Standards news
- Learning and development
- The Framework for Integrated Personalised Care training
- LOROS Centre for Excellence palliative and end of life training courses
- Understanding Antisemitism and Islamophobia - free NHSE webinars
- Antisemitism: what it is, its roots and modern manifestations - Thursday 5 September 2024, 10am - 11.30am
- Understanding Islamophobia - Wednesday 25 September 2024, 11am - 12pm
- Opportunities
- Displaced international recruits
- East Midlands International Recruitment fund
- Health and wellbeing
- Managing the mental health impact of civil unrest
- Consultations and research
- Remote Verification of Death - surveys
- Research into multiple long-term conditions for people with learning disabilities
- Events
- Leicestershire Learning Disability Partnership Board conference – 19 September 2024
- Commemoration, celebration and awareness raising
- Sepsis Awareness Day – 13 September 2024
- Integrated Personalised Care: Training Requirements – booking form
Supporting our workforce
- Message from Jon Wilson, Director of Adults and Communities, Leicestershire County Council, to care sector colleagues
Guidance and good practice
- RSV vaccination
- Measles vaccination
Leicestershire County Council updates
- New adult social care videos
- Provider forum meetings for 2025
- Flowers and gifts offered to Leicestershire County Council staff
Learning and development
- Restorative clinical supervision for nurses in adult social care
What is Resilience-Based Clinical Supervision?
Programme details
Further information
Consultations and research
- End of Life Strategy
Events
- Leicestershire Learning Disability Partnership Board – conference
- Leicester Pride
Industrial action
- Delivering safe services during GP collective action
Guidance and good practice
- Six-month payment rule
- Diabetes care planning
Leicestershire County Council updates
- Adults & Communities Engagement Panel Newsletter
- Provider portal pilot
Learning and development
- Navigating menopause as an autistic / neurodivergent person
Health and wellbeing
- Heat Health Alert
Events
- Leicestershire Learning Disability Partnership Board – Conference
Industrial action
Reminders
- Next edition
- Useful links
Guidance and good practice
- Diabetes care planning
- Nursing home equipment requests for bladder screening and syringe drivers
- Section 117 – LLR Joint Policy and Practice Guidance
- Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) vaccinations
- Background
- Vaccination
Leicestershire County Council updates
- Care home contract
- Visiting Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre
- Trading Standards Scams News
Learning and development
- Leicestershire Social Care Development Group
- Reminder of IPC webinars
- Safeguarding Matters Live materials
Consultations and research
- UK Covid-19 Inquiry: pandemic stories sought
- More information about the UK Covid-19 Inquiry
- Why should I share my story?
- Help is available if you need it
Guidance and good practice
- Respiratory Infection Guidance
- Expiration Dates on Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
- Cervical screening videos for people with learning disabilities
- Summer Preparedness
- Stop! Think fraud
- Do you stop to check who’s really contacting you?
- Do you automatically trust offers and click on links?
- Do you use the same password for different accounts?
- Do you use 2-step verification?
Learning and development
- Reminder - Safeguarding Matters Live – 9 July 2024
Health and wellbeing
- New Non-Emergency Patient Transport Provider from 1 July
The future of adult social care
- Telehealth in care homes - HSJ finals for LLR entry
Guidance and good practice
- Direct payments – new factsheets
- UTIs and catheter care
- COVID-19 vaccinations in care homes
Leicestershire County Council updates
- Requesting a change to current support plan
- Backdated charges notice
Learning and development
- Safeguarding Matters Live – 9th July 2025
- IPC webinar series – September–December 2024
Data tracking
- Digital Social Care Records (DSCR)
- Capacity tracker
Awards
- Nominate for the Care Professional of the Year Awards 2024!
Commemoration, celebration and awareness raising
- Numeracy Day celebrations – 24th May 2024
- Local Attraction Offer for Carers
Industrial action
- Delivering safe services during the junior doctors strikes
- Impact on emergency and care services
- How you can help
- Discharge of patients with COVID-19 from hospital
Guidance and good practice
- Supporting people to register to vote
- COVID-19 vaccinations in care homes
- Critical fuel users update
- Advice for people on safety in an emergency
Leicestershire County Council updates
- Delegated healthcare tasks
- Long term residential and nursing block contracts
- Backdated charges notice
- Allocated worker look-up – reminder and update
Learning and development
Consultations and research
- Physical activity and wellbeing residents’ survey 2024
- Online survey – overseas workers
- Palliative and end of life support services questionnaire
Awards
- Care Professional of the Year Awards 2024
Commemoration, celebration and awareness raising
- Carers week – 10-16 June
- Learning disabilities week – 17-23 June
- Happy Pride month – June
Industrial action
Guidance and good practice
- COVID-19 vaccinations
- Learning Disability Awareness Week – 17-23 June
Leicestershire County Council updates
- Implementation of the inflationary uplift 2024-25
- PBS network
- Home care call logs
Events
- LLR Women's Wellbeing Event – 17 June
Awards
- Care Professional of the Year Awards 2024
The future of adult social care
- Connected Care
Guidance and good practice
- Providing Care website
- COVID-19 vaccination consent forms
- Safeguarding Matters newsletter
- DHU falls response service
- Locking cooker valves
Leicestershire County Council updates
- Bosworth Medieval Festival - Community Board
- What? Why? Who? How? When? Want to know more?
- Provider portal logon issues
Learning and development
- Sector-based Work Activity Programme (SWAP)
- Learning disability health needs training
- GoLearn! ‘Have a Go’ month – June 2024
Opportunities
- Non-regulated support tasks – provider views sought
Data tracking
- Capacity tracker reminder - window open
Health and wellbeing
- Navigating menopause as an autistic / neurodivergent person: challenges and coping strategies – 10 July
Consultations and research
- Snap survey – overseas workers
- Healthwatch research
- Social care research project webinar – 21 May
Awards
- Care Professional of the Year Awards – October 2024
Commemoration, celebration and awareness raising
- Mental Health awareness week – 13-19 May
- Thank you for #CelebratingSocialCare
Guidance and good practice
- COVID-19 spring vaccination programme now live
- Free transport to COVID-19 vaccinations
- Safer visiting in care homes during infectious illness outbreaks
- Get in the know about the latest scams and consumer fraud
Leicestershire County Council updates
- Inflationary uplift 2024-25
- Draft residential contract – feedback open until 31 May
- Health packages of home care
- Allocated worker look-up
- Leicestershire County Council provider portal
- Draft Equality, Diversity and Inclusion strategy consultation and online event – 24 April
Learning and development
- Free numeracy training for people with a learning difficulty
- Young people, radicalisation and autism
Opportunities
- International recruitment funding is still available
Consultations and research
- Healthwatch calls for public input on supported living services in Leicestershire and Leicester
- How to get involved
- About Healthwatch
Events
- Infection Prevention Society conference - 15 May
Commemoration, celebration and awareness raising
- World Immunisation Week – 24-30 April 2024
- World Hand Hygiene Day – 5 May 2024
The future of adult social care
- Digital social care - animated explainers
- Digital landline switchover webinar – 24 April
- Carers leave
Guidance and good practice
- Spring 2024 COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign
- Acute Respiratory Infection
- Identify people eligible for treatments
- Routine asymptomatic testing on discharge to care homes
- Testing for outbreak management
Leicestershire County Council updates
- Changes to health protection contact details
- Leicestershire County Council Provider Portal
- Notifying the council of changes within provider organisations
- Home care diversity
Learning and development
- Adult Social Care Training and Development Fund
Data tracking
- Capacity Tracker reporting window open until 15 April
Commemoration, celebration and awareness raising
- Celebrating social care
The future of adult social care
- Carer’s Leave Act approved for 6 April implementation
- LLR Adult Social Care Nursing Advisory Council
Guidance and good practice
- Catching up with vaccinations
- Resources for the spring 2024 COVID-19 vaccination programme
- Diarrhoea and vomiting in care settings
- COVID-19 testing in care homes
- Visa reforms for care workers
- Skills for Care ‘LGBTQ+ good and best practice’ webinar
- ‘Made with care’ national campaign
- Weighing of care home residents
- Priority Services Register
- Join the new LLR ICB WhatsApp channel
Leicestershire County Council updates
- Annual uplifts for 2024/25
- Council support for recruitment and retention
Learning and development
- Oliver McGowan tier 2 training
Financial sustainability
- Increase in Funded Nursing Care rate
Opportunities
- International recruitment: grant funding available
Commemoration, celebration and awareness raising
- Neurodiversity Celebration Week
- Trans Visibility Day
- The future of Adult Social Care
- LLR Adult Social Care Nursing Advisory Council
- Guidance and good practice
- Ensure you are vaccinated against measles
- Anticipatory medication in end-of-life care
- Stop! Think fraud
- Dementia and LGBTQ+ people
- Leicestershire County Council updates
- Budget set at county council meeting
- Service directory
- Short-term packages of home care before reablement
- Learning and development
- LSCDG training plan for 2024-25
- Skills for Care e-learning modules
- Learning disability health training
- Supporting people with learning disabilities through the menopause – 12 March
- Opportunities
- Last chance for Digital Social Care Record funding - 15 March
- Consultations and research
- Survey of unpaid carers on a new National Carers Strategy – deadline 7 March
- LLR GP patient survey – final chance to have your say by 10 March
- Care home vaccination programme survey – deadline 13 March
- Events
- ICB online event on end-of-life care – 13 March
- Commemoration, celebration and awareness raising
- International Women’s Day – 8 March
- Sign Language Week 2024 - 18-24 March
Guidance and good practice
- Spring COVID-19 vaccination eligible cohorts
- Care home vaccination programme survey
Leicestershire County Council updates
- Provider portal availability
- PBS provider network
- Leicestershire County Council home library service
Learning and development
- Free sight loss training for social care staff
Opportunities
- Digital Social Care Record Funding Deadline
Consultations and research
- Local Skills Improvement Plan - results from survey work now live
- Care home minimum data set study
Events
- International recruitment event – 4 March
Commemoration, celebration and awareness raising
- Zero Discrimination Day – 1 March
- International Women’s Day webinars – 8 March 2024
Industrial action
- Delivering safe services during the junior doctors strikes
- Impact on emergency and care services
- How you can help
- Local system plans in place to support adult social care providers
- Discharge of patients with COVID-19 from hospital
The future of adult social care
- New animation explains workings of our integrated care system
- LLR ICB Chair opportunity
Guidance and good practice
- Measles
- Care home providers – vaccination visits
- International recruitment support
- Support for providers employing overseas workers
- Support for overseas workers
- Addressing inequalities - Learning Disability and Autism Health Equity Network event – 28 February
- Home Office information on right to work
Leicestershire County Council updates
- Updated budget proposals published
- Framework for Integrated Personalised Care – training model review survey
- Adult social care survey 2024
- Packages of home care transferring from providers to HART for reablement
- Residential contract consultation
- Ratby and Kirby Muxloe major gas incident – thank you
Learning and development
- Relationships and sex education community of practice session – 28 February
- Webinar: The science of male mental health – 29 February
- Good support for trans people and/or autistic people webinar - 3 April
Opportunities
- ‘Made with care’ national recruitment campaign
- Digital Social Care Record Programme funding available
- What is the Digital Social Care Record?
- Benefits of a Digital Social Care Record
- Financial support available
- Key contacts, resources, and support
Health and wellbeing
- LLR menopause awareness service
- ‘Help Us, Help You’ NHS Talking Therapies
Consultations and research
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion strategy for 2024-2028
- Young voices on health
Awards
- Show some love for social care: Care Professional Awards 2024!
Commemoration, celebration and awareness raising
- Race Equality Week - 5-11 February
- The future of adult social care
- Care Workforce Pathway
- Guidance and good practice
- Search for local vaccination clinics using new website
- Weekly home rounds
- Cleaning and decontamination
- Leicestershire Equalities Challenge Group newsletters
- Leicestershire County Council updates
- Residential and nursing care contract
- Learning and development
- Multiply programme for people with a learning disability
- Health and wellbeing
- Time to Talk day – 1 February
- Free online Steps4Health programme
- LLR BREAK-150 activity challenge
- Blue Light Card Foundation
- Consultations and research
- Proposals on visiting in care homes
- GP practice survey
- Events
- East Midlands Care Conference – 6 March
- Infection Prevention Society conference - 15 May
- Awards
- Care Awards East Midlands – nominations close 31 January
- Commemoration, celebration and awareness raising
- Holocaust Memorial Day – 25 January
- Poetry by health and social care staff from diverse communities
- Reminders
- Next edition
- Useful links
- New year wishes from the Director
- The future of adult social care
- ‘Bring your own device’ action research
- Guidance and good practice
- International recruitment webinar recording
- Frailty and infection
- Winter vaccinations
- Type 1 Diabetes in care homes
- Leicestershire County Council updates
- One week left to comment on the Council’s toughest ever budget
- Important: change of out-of-hours number
- DoLS: end of eFax service
- Learning and development
- IPC webinar recordings
- Free IPC webinar on scabies management – 24 January
- Introductory adult safeguarding information session – 31 January
- Midlands activity provision network – 25 February
- Free data security and protection eLearning
- Data tracking
- DHSC data collection reporting window ends 15 January
- Skills for Care annual workforce report
- Health and wellbeing
- Launch of ‘Your Wellbeing Timetable’
- Golden Games physical activity programme for older adults
- Helping older people to cope with depression
- Diversity calendar 2024
- Reminders
2023 E-bulletins for care providers
- Season’s greetings
- Guidance and good practice
- System pressures
- Discharges from UHL and Norovirus
- Specialist COVID and flu vaccination clinic for people with a learning disability
- Leicestershire County Council updates
- Proposed inflationary fee uplifts for 2024-25
- Data tracking
- CareFind website – training dates for care home providers
- Health and wellbeing
- Keep warm and well this winter
- Mental health and wellbeing
- Forthcoming industrial action
- Delivering safe services during the festive period – including additional strike dates
- Key dates
- Impact on emergency and care services
- How you can help
- Discharge of patients with COVID-19 from hospital
- Reminders
- Next edition
- Useful links
- The future of adult social care
- Carers’ Leave Act
- Digital social care record funding – reminder
- Guidance and good practice
- National Chair in adult social care nursing
- Carbapenem Resistant Organism (CRO) and hospital discharge
- Continence information
- Seasonal vaccinations
- Leicestershire County Council updates
- Changes to our charging policy for social care and support
- Fraud in the festive period
- Provider calls for 2024
- Up-to-date contact details for your organisation
- Gifts to Leicestershire County Council staff
- Learning and development
- LOROS Lecture 2024: medications in the home for good end of life care
- Disability Rights UK leadership academy programme
- LLR Active Bystander programme
- Opportunities
- Intergenerational Linking
- Help shape skills planning in adult social care
- Consultations and research
- Accessible research conference about relationships and sex
- Events
- EMCARE CQC event – 25 January 2024
- Awards
- Industrial action
- Reminders
- Next edition
- Useful links
- The future of adult social care
- Accelerating Reform Fund for social care
- Guidance and good practice
- National Safeguarding Adults Week 2023
- Safeguarding Matters online briefing – 6 December 2023
- Specialist Covid and flu vaccination clinics for people with a learning disability
- Free transport help for Covid-19 & flu vaccinations
- Supply of Lateral Flow Test kits (LFTs) available free
- Leicestershire County Council updates
- Care home contract
- Learning and development
- Leadership programme for adult social care nurses from global majority backgrounds
- Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland Integrated Personalised Care Programme 2023/24
- Publications
- Opportunities
- Health and wellbeing
- Movember
- System health and wellbeing offers
- Consultations and research
- Monitoring infections in care homes pilot
- The future of adult social care
- Digital Social Care Record programme funding
- Guidance and good practice
- Winter preparedness and COVID-19 testing
- Measles
- Leicestershire County Council updates
- Supply of Lateral Flow Test kits (LFTs) available free
- Positive Behaviour Support Leads network
- Residential support network
- Learning and development
- IPC Basics webinars
- Safeguarding Matters online briefing – 6 December 2023
- Oliver McGowan mandatory training on Learning Disability and Autism
- Tier 1
- Tier 2
- Opportunities
- Defibrillator funding
- International recruitment funding
- Veteran Friendly Framework
- Consultations and research
- Survey for 2024-25 Funded Nursing Care rate
- Events
- Winter Wellbeing Festival – 24 November 2023
- Nominated Individual national event – 29 November 2023
- Safe to Speak Up events
- Commemoration, Celebration and Awareness Raising
- Armistice Day – 11 November 2023
- Transgender Awareness Week – 13-18 November
- International Men’s Day – 19 November 2023
- Carers’ Rights Day – 23 November
- Guidance and good practice
- Autumn booster campaign
- DHU falls response service
- Leicestershire County Council updates
- Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC)
- Scams
- Provider conference calls for 2024
- Learning and development opportunities
- LSCDG moving and handling ‘train the trainer’ update
- Safeguarding ‘train the trainer’ 2-day course
- Consultations and research
- Improving access to adult social care training
- Guidance and good practice
- Face masks
- Covid and flu vaccinations - reminder
- Vaccinations for home care staff
- Digital switchover scamming
- Leicestershire County Council updates
- Incident reporting
- Six-month payment rule in home care
- Learning and development
- LSCDG survey
- Cyber-attacks webinar
- Opportunities
- International Recruitment Grant
- LLR Digital Social Care Record funding
- Curious about Care
- Data tracking
- Mandatory capacity tracker completion - reminder
- Health and wellbeing
- Adult Social Care Workplace Wellbeing Survey
- Commemoration, Celebration and Awareness Raising
- Black History Month - October
- World Menopause Month - October
- World Mental Health campaign – 7-13 October
- National Hate Crime Awareness Week – 14– 21 October
- UK Commission on Covid Commemoration final report
- The future of adult social care
- Digitisation is the power to improve care
- Guidance and good practice
- COVID-19 autumn 2023 booster and seasonal flu vaccine programmes – now live!
- Safeguarding Matters
- Leicestershire County Council updates
- HART short term packages
- Reminder of home care sub-contracting arrangements
- Home care returns
- Home care winter survey and weekly survey
- Home care Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Fair outcomes
- Staying up to date with highways works
- Learning and development opportunities
- National training programme for professional nurse advocates
- Dementia Clinical Network study session – 27 September
- Stay Smiling e-learning
- Consultations and research
- The experiences of living in residential care
- Events
- LLR Festival of Practice – 2-6 October
- Making the most of international recruitment – 3 October
- Awards
- Care Professional of the Year awards – last chance to nominate!
- Commemoration, celebration and awareness raising
- Coronavirus Life Assurance Scheme - last chance to claim
- Industrial action
- Delivering safe services during industrial action in September and October
- Strike details
- Impact on emergency and care services
- How you can help
- Local system plans in place to support adult social care providers
- Discharge of patients with COVID-19 from hospital
- Guidance and good practice
- Changes to Autumn/Winter 2023/24 vaccination programme
- COVID-19 treatments for people at higher risk of severe outcomes
- Heat health
- Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC)
- Community Safety team home fire safety checks
- Home fire safety check
- Smoke alarms installation
- Targeted visits for higher fire risk areas
- How to request a home fire safety check
- IPC audits – one year on
- Language is important
- Threats to email and network security
- Better Security, Better Care
- Learning and development opportunities
- Oliver McGowan mandatory training on learning disability and autism
- LLR Festival of Practice
- Managing deterioration – training and useful resources
- STOMP – online workshop
- Data tracking
- Capacity tracker reporting window
- Health and wellbeing
- ‘Your menopause’ survey
- Consultations and research
- Call for evidence - immigration functions and support to the social care sector
- Awards
- Care Professional of the Year Awards – nominations deadline 1 October!
- Industrial action
- Forthcoming industrial action of junior doctors and consultants
- Strike details
- Impact on emergency and care services
- How you can help
Guidance and good practice
- COVID cases increasing in Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland
- Discharge of patients with COVID-19 from hospital
- Autumn and winter COVID-19 and flu vaccination campaign
Leicestershire County Council updates
- Hospital Discharge Grant for Carers
- Leicestershire County Council Provider Portal
- Home Upgrade Grant (HUG)
- Provider conference calls for 2024
Learning and development opportunities
- Free IPC webinar series – September to December 2023
Data tracking
- Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set (ASC-WDS) – drop in session
Consultations and research
- National survey of care workers
Awards
- Nominate someone you know for a national award
Commemoration, celebration and awareness raising
- Happy Leicester Pride!
Industrial action
- Consultants’ strike 24–26 August
- How you can help
- Local system plans in place to support adult social care providers
Guidance and good practice
- Leicestershire and Rutland DHU urgent falls response service:
Who can refer
How to refer
Referral criteria
Exclusion criteria
What happens when a person is referred? - Unpaid carer leave entitlement
Leicestershire County Council updates
- Workforce Fund
Learning and development opportunities
- Workforce Development Fund
- LGO complaints webinar
- Aging without children and later life equality
- Constipation and people with a learning disability
Data tracking
- Care data survey
Industrial action
- Junior doctor strike 11-15 August
The future of adult social care
- LLR Dementia Strategy consultation launch
Guidance and good practice
- International recruitment
Leicestershire County Council updates
- Short term home care packages
- Nursing band and MSIF - enhanced residential rates
Learning and development opportunities
- Free IPC webinars
- Fully funded LSCDG courses
- LSCDG training plan for 2023/2024
- Well-led & leadership courses
- GoLearn 2023 Better Mental Health courses
Opportunities
- Digital funding opportunities
Data tracking
- Capacity tracker data webinars
- Home care
- Care homes
Health and wellbeing
- LLR Health and Wellbeing Partnership - free prize draw
Events
- EMCARE annual conference 2023
Awards
- Care Professional of the Year Awards
Commemoration, celebration and awareness raising
- South Asian Heritage Month
The future of adult social care
- Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland Care Record
- Skills for Care adult social care workforce report July 2023
Guidance and good practice
- Falls decision tree
- Progress on health checks for people with learning disabilities
- Laundry double bagging process
- Changes to the shingles vaccination programme from 1 September 2023
Data tracking
- Care data matters
- Enforcement of data submission
Health and wellbeing
- Wellbeing Wednesdays podcasts
Consultations and research
- Consultation on learning disability and autism training
Commemoration, celebration and awareness raising
- Celebrating 75 years of the NHS 1948 - 2023
- Disability Pride Month – July
Industrial action
- Junior doctors 13–18 July and NHS consultants 20 & 21 July
- How you can help
- Local system plans in place to support adult social care providers
The future of adult social care
- NHS patient safety initiative in LLR shortlisted for national award
Guidance and good practice
- Fire safety in care homes
- Activity coordinators network
- Warm homes scheme
- Data security and protection toolkit deadline – reminder
Leicestershire County Council updates
- Block contracting in care homes
- Care Professional of the Year awards
- Market Position Statement published
- Six-month payment rule in home care
- Automatic responses and home care call off
- Retracting offers in home care
Learning and development opportunities
- Managing deterioration
- Supporting people with a learning disability to lead good lives
Health and wellbeing
- DWP launches Pension Credit campaign
- LLR health and financial wellbeing resources
Consultations and research
- DHSC consultation: visiting in care homes, hospitals and hospices
- Loughborough University research opportunity – care homes wanted
Commemoration, Celebration and Awareness Raising
- Learning Disability week: 19–25 June
- Windrush Day 75: 22 June 2023
- Co-production week 2023: from 3 July 2023
- Coronavirus assurance safety scheme extended to September 2023
Industrial Action
- National Education Union – strike action
- Junior doctors – strike action
The future of adult social care
- Understanding integration
Guidance and good practice
- Mental Capacity Act guidance
- Missed vaccinations and end of the spring campaign
- ‘Evergreen’ COVID-19 vaccination offer ends 30 June 2023
- Care home providers – protect residents
- Hot weather
- Heat-Health Alert service
- Staying safe during the heat
- Data Security and Protection Toolkit deadline
- Sharps resources for care homes
Leicestershire County Council updates
- Residential contract review
Learning and development opportunities
- Building skills in working with mental ill health
- E-learning
- Resource page
- New DBS webinar series for adult social care sector
- LOROS training courses
- Free oral hygiene course for social care staff
Opportunities
- Reminder of funding opportunity: Tech for Better Care
Health and wellbeing
- Menstruation and menopause in the workplace
Commemoration, celebration and awareness raising
- Pride month 1-30 June
Industrial action
- Junior doctors’ strike 14-17 June 2023
Guidance and good practice
- Animation supports family decision-making about vaccinations
- Spring COVID-19 booster campaign - missed vaccinations
Leicestershire County Council updates
- Inspired to Care - new managers’ and employees’ induction handbook
- Inspired to Care – achievements during 2022/23
Learning and development opportunities
- ReSTORE2 mini training
- Safeguarding Matters Virtually Live - 7 June 2023
Consultations and research
- Major Conditions Strategy – call for evidence
- Volunteering in social care – national survey
Commemoration, celebration and awareness raising
- Leicestershire County Council carers’ event – 5 June 2023
- Carers’ week online session for health and care workers – 5 June 2023
- National Smile Month - 15 May - 15 June 2023
Industrial Action
- Junior doctors – possible strike
- National Education Union - possible strike
Guidance and good practice
- Medication in home care
- Stop, challenge, protect - anti-fraud campaign
Leicestershire County Council updates
- Six-month payment rule in home care
- Reminder – how to use the portal
Learning and development opportunities
- Learning disability health training – 14 June 2023
Opportunities
- Funding opportunity – Tech for Better Care
- Home care service – Leicester
Data tracking
- Reminder – MSIF workforce survey for relevant providers
Commemoration, Celebration and Awareness Raising
- Dementia awareness week – 15 to 21 May 2023
- Mental health awareness week – 15 to 21 May 2023
- International nurses’ day
Industrial Action
- Possibility of future strikes in health and education settings
The Coronation of His Majesty King Charles III
Guidance and good practice
- Reminder – photo ID required to vote
- End of free COVID-19 DBS checks
- Coronavirus Assurance Safety Scheme extended to September 2023
- Missed vaccinations for care home residents
- World Hand Hygiene Day – 5 May
- ProvidingCare.net resources – oral hygiene
Leicestershire County Council updates
- Submitting forms on the Leicestershire adult social care portal
Learning and development opportunities
- Digital Skills Framework for the adult social care sector – 16 May
- Infection Prevention Society Trent branch annual conference – 17 May
Publications
- Safeguarding Matters
Industrial action
- Forthcoming possible strikes
The future of adult social care
- Government sets out next steps to reform adult social care
- Market Sustainability and Improvement Fund (MSIF)
- Podcast now available on the LLR Care Record
Guidance and good practice
- National emergency alert system test – Sunday 23 April, 15:00
Check an alert
If you’re driving or riding when you get an alert
Turning off alerts
If you are anxious about the alert - Reminder: care home spring booster consents
- Missed vaccinations for care home residents
- Controlled drugs newsletter – spring 2023
- Alternative fuel payment scheme
Learning and development opportunities
Safeguarding Matters briefing – 7 June 2023
Data tracking
- Adult social care data enforcement commenced 1 April 2023
- Reminder: Care Data Matters
- ASC-WDS demo webinars for care providers
Health and wellbeing
- Closure of the LLR Mental Health Wellbeing Hub
- Reminder: My Truth – A Manifesto for Positive Change
Consultations and research
- New care workforce pathway: call for evidence
Commemoration, celebration and awareness raising
- Celebrating Social Care month
- International Nurses’ Day and regional event
Industrial action
- Forthcoming possible strikes
Guidance and good practice
- Changes to COVID-19 testing
- Action required: care home spring booster consents
- Consent forms
- Which vaccines are being delivered?
- Registering to vote and photo ID required
- Recognising deterioration in care homes
- Check recruitment website pricing policies
- Norovirus
Leicestershire County Council updates
- Home care forums
- Strategic home care forums
- April home care forum
- Provider portal redesign
- Learning disability student nurse placements
Learning and development opportunities
- IPC Basics webinar: UTIs
Health and wellbeing
- New Healthy Workplaces Leicestershire programme launching
Industrial action
- Junior doctor industrial action
The future of adult social care
- Market Sustainability Plan
- Annual uplifts for 2023/24
- Digitising social care
- Digital switchover
- Health and Care Together podcast
Guidance and good practice
- Covid vaccine eligibility
- Spring booster 2023
- Evergreen offer
- Nutrition and Hydration Week – 13-19 March
- Routine, urgent and emergency health advice posters
Leicestershire County Council updates
- Alternatives to contacting the Council by phone
- Contacting adult social care services at Leicestershire County Council
- Advice and guidance on using the forms
- Do you have ideas for developing contact methods with the Council?
Learning and development opportunities
- Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training on Learning Disability and Autism – get involved
- Multiply project
Data tracking
- Care Data Matters
Health and wellbeing
- Menopause Awareness sessions
Consultations and research
- Vivaldi research
Celebrations, commemoration and awareness raising
- Neurodiversity Celebration Week – 13-19 March 2023
- COVID day of remembrance and reflection – 23 March 2023
The future of adult social care
- Fair Cost of Care and Market Sustainability Plan
- Annual inflationary fee uplifts for 2023/24
Guidance and good practice
- Spring COVID-19 booster eligibility
- Community health services directory for care homes
- Free personal protective equipment scheme
- Photo ID at polling stations
- International recruitment in adult social care
Leicestershire County Council updates
- Leicestershire County Council budget
- Review of the Leicestershire County Council care home contract
- Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards – care homes
Learning and development opportunities
- LGBTQ+ learning framework
- Mental health training offer for home care staff
Financial sustainability
- Smart Solutions by ESPO
Events
- My Truth – A Manifesto for Positive Change – new dates
Celebration, commemoration and awareness raising
- 50 years of advocacy for people with learning disability
Industrial action
- Potential EMAS and junior doctor strikes
- Ongoing industrial action by National Education Union
Guidance and good practice
- Guidelines for managing norovirus outbreaks
Leicestershire County Council updates
- A&C Engagement Panel recruitment campaign
- Changes to Professional Portal referrals
Learning and development opportunities
- IPC webinar series – March to June 2023
- Working with LGBTQ+ people in later life
- Safeguarding Matters session materials
Publications
- Health and Care Together magazine
Industrial action
Updates on delivering safe services during EMAS industrial action
- How you can help
- Local system plans in place to support adult social care providers
- Discharge of patients with COVID-19 from hospital
The future of adult social care
- Proposed fee uplifts for 2023/24
Guidance and good practice
- Act now: winter COVID booster vaccinations cease on 12 February
- Ombudsman’s guide for care providers on good record keeping
- Free personal protective equipment scheme
Learning and development opportunities
- LLR LeDeR learning event – 2 March
- Skills for Care and Health Education England workforce planning training
Industrial action
The future of adult social care
- Fair Cost of Care and Market Sustainability Plan
- Proposed fee uplifts for 2023/24
- Preparing for CQC assurance – seeking providers’ views
Guidance and good practice
- Preparing for possible power disconnections:
What are we doing locally?
What can you do to plan?
Further information and links - COVID-19 PPE guide for adult social care services and settings
Leicestershire County Council updates
- Live-in care
The future of adult social care
- Digitisation in adult social care settings
Guidance and good practice
- Importance of ventilation as a means of infection control in care homes
- Provider contingency plans for possible power outages
- Vaccination clinics for people with a learning disability
Leicestershire County Council updates
- Industrial action by National Education Union
- New service levels - first party top up and full cost residential
- May 2023 provider conference calls for care home and home care providers
Learning and development opportunities
- Learning disability health training
- Skills for Care and Health Education England workforce planning training – bookings now open
Data tracking
- Reminder to keep updating the Capacity Tracker
- Adult Social Care Survey 2023
Opportunities
- Winter retention payment for Home Care for Leicestershire workers – scheme now closed
Consultations and research
- Provide your views on long-term effect of COVID-19
Guidance and good practice
- Mask wearing and free PPE scheme
- Learning disability vaccination clinic details
- Influenza outbreaks in care homes
Leicestershire County Council updates
- Discharge Fund – enhanced home care solutions
Learning and development
- Skills for Care and Health Education England workforce planning training
Opportunities
- Winter retention payment for Home Care for Leicestershire workers – initial scheme deadline approaching
Data tracking
- Health and Care Act 2022: adult social care information provisions
Health and wellbeing
- LLR system health and wellbeing offers
Events
- ‘My Truth: a manifesto for positive change’ workshop
Awards
- East Midlands Patient Safety Collaborative care home awards
Happy New Year
The future of adult social care
- Social care reform and fees
Guidance and good practice
- COVID-19 guidance changes
- Face masks
- Testing
- Admission to care homes
- Stay well this winter
Leicestershire County Council updates
- Adult social care provider conference calls in 2023
Learning and development
- ‘Lead to succeed’ and ‘well-led’ training programmes
- MRSA refresher webinar
Opportunities
- Winter retention payment for Home Care for Leicestershire workers – initial scheme deadline approaching
Events
- ‘My Truth: a manifesto for positive change’ workshop
Next edition
2022 E-bulletins for care providers
- Delivering safe services during the East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) industrial action
- How you can help
- Local system plans in place to support care homes
- Winter retention payment for Home Care for Leicestershire workers
- Covid guidance changes
- Changes to universal masking
- Staff who develop symptoms of a respiratory illness
- Residents who develop symptoms of a respiratory illness
- Contacts of COVID-19 cases
- Changes to outbreak control
- Vaccination
- Next edition
Reflections on 2022 from the Director
The future of adult social care
- Adult Social Care Discharge Fund
Guidance and good practice
- Seasonal vaccination reminder
- Booking and managing vaccinations via the NHS app
- Care worker Q&A about Covid-19 vaccination
What is Group A Streptococcus and iGAS?
- How is GAS spread?
- What can you do?
IPC newsletters
- Telecare is switching from analogue to digital: what care providers need to know
Leicestershire County Council updates
- Incident reporting webinar
Learning and development opportunities
- Deaf awareness training
- Making Every Contact Count: healthy conversation skills training
Financial sustainability
- Bulk Energy Contract for care providers
Data tracking
- Capacity Tracker update
The future of adult social care
- Social care reform update
- Discharge Fund
- Shared decision-making councils for social care nurses
Guidance and good practice
- Reminder about pause of asymptomatic testing for staff and visitors to care homes
- Reminder of Safeguarding Matters live – 7 December
- Learning disability specialist training – error in Provider News 13
- Controlled Drug Reporting website upgrade
Leicestershire County Council updates
- Home Care for Leicestershire
- Trans and non-binary service user policy and guidance
- Inspired To Care
Learning and development opportunities
- Personalised end of life care Advance Care Planning and ReSPECT
- Health and wellbeing
- World AIDS Day
Consultations and research
- FluCare
- Laundry research
The future of adult social care
- Nursing apprenticeships
Guidance and good practice
- Specialist Covid-19 vaccination clinics for people with learning disabilities
- National Capacity Tracker – avoid potential fines
Learning and development opportunities
- Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training
- Background
- Latest update
- Keep informed
- Autism and learning disability support from Skills for Care
Learning disability specialist training
NHSmail for care providers - Wednesday drop-in sessions
Health and wellbeing
- World Antimicrobial Week
- Mental Health First Aid Refresher Training
- Movember
Events
- UK Disability History Month 2022 – 16 November to 16 December
- Self Care Week – 14–20 November 2022
- Anti-Bullying Week
Next edition
The future of adult social care:
- Digital Maturity Survey - care technology support and funding available
- Background
- What support is available for you
- Next steps – please complete the survey
Fair Cost of Care and Market Sustainability Plan next steps
Framework for Integrated Personalised Care – training model review
Guidance and good practice:
- Face masks poster for use in care homes
- Covid-19 and flu vaccinations communications toolkit for care workers
- Safeguarding Matters online briefing: 7 December
- Yellow card reporting
- Care technology scams
Learning and development opportunities:
- IPC webinars: next on 23 November
- Reminder: free falls prevention, mobility and strengthening webinar: 3 November
- Reminder: learning disability health training: 9 November
Leicestershire County Council updates:
- Provider forums in 2023
Consultations and research:
- Help to shape the UK’s Covid-19 commemoration plans
- Case studies for national recruitment campaign
- Help shape the CQC factual accuracy process
Data tracking:
- Mandatory Capacity Tracker completion
- Have your say about improving the Capacity Tracker
Health and wellbeing:
- International Men’s Day
- Lead, Connect and Care team offer
Events:
- ‘We are social care nursing’ conference: 3 November 2022
- Get involved in Black History Month
- The future of adult social care
- Guidance and good practice
- Learning and development opportunities
- Leicestershire County Council updates
- Consultations and research
- Health and wellbeing
- Next edition
- The future of adult social care
- Guidance and good practice
- Learning and development opportunities
- Leicestershire County Council updates
- Financial sustainability
- Data tracking
- Consultations and research
- Awards
- Next edition
- The funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
- The future of adult social care
- Guidance and good practice
- Learning and development opportunities
- Surveys and pilots
- Next edition
- Message to ASC providers re passing of HM Queen Elizabeth II
The future of adult social care
- Adult social care reform update
- Framework for Integrated Personalised Care
Guidance and good practice
- Preparing for autumn COVID-19 boosters
- Pause in COVID-19 testing
- Skills for Care winter staffing resources
- Onboard Ukranian nationals
Learning and development opportunities
- Leadership programme for nurses from black and ethnic minority backgrounds
- ASC-WDS and WDF virtual workshop
- Personalised care - comfort measures in the last days of life: a free virtual workshop
- Learning disability, autism and epilepsy - improving outcomes webinar
- IPC Webinar Series 2022
Health and wellbeing
- MHFA England workshops, events, and exhibitions
Consultations
- National NHS England Learning Disability and Autism Programme: call for feedback
- Future vaccination strategy
- Next edition
- Guidance and good practice
- Learning and development opportunities
- Council updates
- Data tracking
- Awards
- Next edition
The future of adult social care
- Fair Cost of Care
Guidance and good practice
- Understanding urinary tract infections in those over 65 years of age
- Flowcharts to help explain COVID-19 testing in care homes
National Minimum Wage in the care sector explained
Learning and development opportunities
- Learning disability and autism training for health and social care staff
- Learning opportunities with Macmillan
Council updates
- Reminder: How to contact the Customer Service Centre
Data tracking
- DHSC update: Formal Notice of data required from Sunday 31 July 2022
Consultations and research
- Down Syndrome Act 2022 guidance: call for evidence
- Planning a COVID-19 commemoration event or activity – tell the UK Commission on Covid Commemoration
Future editions
- Next Edition
The future of adult social care
- Cap on care costs
Guidance and good practice
- Making Every Contact Count
- No change to personal protective equipment (PPE) or testing guidance
- DHSC future data collection including new mandatory requirements
- Priority groups for autumn COVID-19 vaccination
Leicestershire County Council updates
- LSCDG successful in winning tender
- Fax communication with the Customer Service Centre
Learning and development opportunities
- LSCDG training courses
Events
- EMCARE annual conference 2022
- Important: revised position on testing, 8 July 2022
The future of adult social care
- Home care Fair Cost of Care survey – new deadline 22 July
- Next steps to progress the digital skills framework
Guidance and good practice
- Overseas recruitment bite size guide
- Next steps for COVID-19 vaccination
- Care home IPC update
Council updates
- Medium Term Financial Strategy
- Changes to professional referral process
Learning and development opportunities
- IPC webinar series
- Dental care – training for care homes
- Cancer awareness training
- Future mandatory training about learning disability and autism for health and social care provider staff
Publications
- Universal Principles for Advance Care Planning
- We Are Social Care Nursing newsletter
Consultations and research
- Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland (LLR) draft Joint Carers Strategy 2022 – 2025
- Skills for Care research into why staff leave
Awards
- Chief Nursing Adult Social Care awards
Future editions
- We want to hear from you!
- Next Edition
The future of adult social care
- Refreshed Care Technology service launched
Guidance and good practice
- Continued caution required amid rise of COVID-19 infections
- Making Every Contact Count in home care
- Supporting the vulnerable before and during a heatwave
- Smoke and carbon monoxide alarm requirements in social homes
Learning and development opportunities
- LSCDG opportunities
- Mental health first aider training
Data tracking
- New powers for DHSC to acquire information from all regulated care providers
- Capacity Tracker provider training sessions
Health and wellbeing
- Lead, Connect and Care Festival 2022, Tuesday 21 June - Saturday 25 June
- ‘Spring into Summer’ activity challenge
Consultations
- Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland (LLR) draft Joint Carers Strategy 2022 – 2025
- Welcome to Provider News
- Celebrating and recognising carers this Carers’ Week
- The future of adult social care
- Market Sustainability and the Fair Cost of Care (FCOC)
- Lifetime cap on care costs
- Framework for Integrated Personalised Care (FIPC)
- Call for evidence: Mental health and wellbeing plan
- NHS and Social Care Coronavirus Life Assurance Scheme
- Midlands Nominated Individual network meeting
- NHSmail for care providers drop-in sessions
- Lead, Connect and Care Festival
- Free online summer school with Dementia UK
- ‘Connecting Together’ managing frailty in care homes webinar
- Enhanced Health in Care Homes Framework
- Adult social care Digital Skills Framework and Training Database
2022 Coronavirus E-bulletins for care providers
- A big thank you for working over the Platinum Jubilee bank holiday weekend!
- Changing focus of the provider bulletins
- Pop-up COVID-19 vaccination clinics
Events and webinars
- Sign-up for new ‘IPC Basics’ webinars
- Modern slavery – awareness information workshop for social care providers
- NHSmail for care providers - drop-in session
- Adult social care digital skills framework and training database
- Midlands Nominated Individual network meeting – Wednesday 15 June 2022
- Working together in the Midlands to support the Digitising Social Care programme (DiSC) webinar
Finance update
- Infection Control and Testing Fund – Round 3 (ICTF3)
- Workforce Recruitment and Retention Fund 1 and 2 (WRF)
- Winter Worker Retention Package
Other news
- Our frontline: support for social care workers
- Help shape ambitious plans to make Leicestershire a net zero carbon county
Previous E-bulletins
Information in previous e-bulletins may have been superseded, please keep up to date with the latest advice and guidance.
- The government’s plan for living with COVID-19 explained in easy-read
- New care home outbreak testing flowchart for staff and residents
- Pop-up vaccination clinics
Other news
- Get involved in Care Home Open Week 2022
- Bookings being taken for July and October ‘Connecting Together’ webinars
- LLR Care Home Pharmacy Team newsletter
- Adult social care recruitment campaign survey
- Community equipment loans service
- National cleaning standards
- Pop-up vaccination clinics
- Infection Control and Testing Fund – Round 3 (ICTF3)
- Workforce Recruitment and Retention Fund (WRF)
- Adult Social Care Winter Worker Retention Package for CQC registered providers
- Living with COVID-19: guidance and resources
Other news
- Market Sustainability and Fair Cost of Care
- Pathway 2 Discharge to Recover, Re-able and Assess: proposed model - survey
- Updates to national IPC COVID-19 supplement
- Pop-up vaccination clinics
- Leicestershire County Council IPC web pages
- Expiry dates on rapid Lateral Flow Tests
Other news
- ‘Finding a solution to the recruitment and retention crisis’ conference
- Nurses’ Day – 12 May 2022
- Chief Nurse for Adult Social Care Awards: who will you nominate?
- Pop-up vaccination clinics
- World Hand Hygiene Day 2022 – 5 May
Other news
- Join the big conversation focussing on your wellbeing
- Care Home Awards July 2022
- Skills for care workforce planning and commissioning resource review
- Testing guidance
- Care home stock of test kits
- Pop-up vaccination clinics
- Personal care
- Capacity tracker care market survey deadline extended
- Finance update
- Market Sustainability and Fair Cost of Care
- Adult Social Care Worker Winter Retention Package
- Other news: Sign up to NHS email and SystmOne
- Discharges to care homes: urgent temporary arrangements
- Webinar recording on changes to COVID-19 measures for care homes
- Vaccination
- Bereavement resources for the adult social care workforce
- Capacity Tracker
- Infection Prevention and Control Champions Network
- ‘Keeping the Best and Growing your Workforce’ home care provider event
- COVID-19 testing in ASC
- Eligibility for free testing
- Symptomatic testing
- Asymptomatic testing
- Contacts of confirmed cases
- Visitor testing
- Resident isolation
- Outbreak testing
- IPC in ASC
- Face coverings
- Aerosol-generating procedures
- Vaccination
- Personal protective equipment
- Onboarding to the PPE portal
- DHSC: excess personal protective equipment (PPE) for sale
- Funding update
- Annual fee increases for April 2022
- ASC worker retention package
- Infection control and testing fund: round 3 (ICTF3)
- Workforce recruitment and retention fund: rounds 1 and 2 (WRF)
- Updated IPC guidance and key changes to COVID-19 policy for adult social care
- The future of the national capacity tracker
- Provider data workshops – sign up
- Revocation of vaccination as a condition of deployment: CQC update
- Care home visiting guidance: government update
- Pop-up vaccination clinics
- Vaccination webinars
- PPE portal: how to order COVID-19 personal protective equipment
- Collection arrangements for free PPE for non-COVID-19 or COVID-19 purposes
Other news
- Annual inflationary fee uplifts
- Work for people from Ukraine or elsewhere
- Midlands Workforce Transformation Improvement Collaborative event
- Care Home Special Interest event hosted by the Infection Prevention Society (IPS)
- Translation flash cards
- Revocation of VCOD regulations: latest update
- Pop-up vaccination clinics
- LLR adult social care winter worker retention package for CQC-registered providers
- Amendment: closing outbreaks on the Capacity Tracker
- ‘Keeping the Best and Growing your Workforce’ home care provider event
- Implementing the cap on care costs: consultation underway
- New ProvidingCare.net website
- Care Home Special Interest event hosted by the Infection Prevention Society (IPS)
- Be Well Midlands – join the conversation
- Social Care Day of Remembrance and Reflection – Thursday 17 March
- Visiting arrangements in care homes
- Professional visitors to care homes
- Pop-up vaccination clinics
- National COVID Inquiry
- Care home deterioration tool survey
- LLR adult social care winter worker retention package for CQC-registered providers
- Social Care Day of Remembrance and Reflection
- Revocation of VCOD: latest update
- COVID-19 vaccination: guide to the spring booster
- Pop-up vaccination clinics
- Capacity tracker
- LLR adult social care winter worker retention package for CQC-registered providers
- Last chance to order free PPE locally for non-COVID-19 or COVID purposes
Other News
- Residential care fee review
- Connecting Together webinar
- Lead, Connect and Care Festival 2022
- Revocation of Vaccination as a Condition of Deployment
- COVID-19 boosters in the care sector: agency staff webinar and toolkit update
- Pop-up vaccination clinics
- New PPE website launched
- Guidance update for supported living and home care
- National testing updates
- Verifyplus testing function
- Finance update
- Residential care fee review – extended deadline
- Workforce Recruitment and Retention Fund (WRF)
Other news
- Launch of Providing Care website webinar on Wednesday 9 March at 13.00
- Mental health and wellbeing
- Skills for Care Registered Manager webinar: maximise retention
- 2022 Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Care & Support Services Directory
- Cyber aware: bolster your online defences
- Care home deterioration tool survey
- Leicestershire County Council residential forum on Monday 7 March at 10.30
- 'Living with COVID-19’: national plan
- System pressures
- Care workers explain why they chose to have their COVID-19 booster vaccine
- Pop-up vaccination clinics
- IPC newsletters
- Last chance to order free PPE locally
- Residential care fee review – extended deadline
Other news:
- Leicestershire County Council residential forum
- Launch of Providing Care website webinar, 9 March
- Free Infection Prevention Control Leadership Programme applications now open
- 70 at 70 – Platinum Jubilee Garden Party
- East Midlands Care Home Awards
- Leicestershire County Council IT downtime Saturday 26 February
- Regulations making vaccines a condition of deployment (VCOD) for social care staff likely to be revoked
- Booster vaccinations for agency staff in adult social care
- Pop-up vaccination clinics
- PPE portal
- Guidance updates
- Finance
Other news:
- East Midlands Care Home Awards
- Consultation launched on revoking vaccination as a condition of deployment
- Pop-up vaccination clinics
- Visiting in care homes
- COVID-19 testing in adult social care settings
- Reminder to order free additional PPE
- Finance update
- Infection control, testing and workforce funding
- Residential care fee review
- Home Care for Leicestershire
Other news
- LLR Mental Health & Wellbeing Hub outreach team
- NHS Mail – shared mailboxes
- Workforce Development Fund deadlines
- ‘We are social care nurses’ newsletter
- Vaccination as a condition of deployment (VCOD)
- Changes to testing regimes across adult social care
- Easing of restrictions in care homes
- Care home roving booster team
- Drive-through booster clinics
- Pop-up vaccination clinics
- COVID-19 guidance update: supported living
- COVID-19 guidance update: PPE portal
- Free additional PPE available
- Other news: Home Care for Leicestershire - locality meetings and provider forums
- Other news: medication and dressing for people discharged to care homes
- Consultation on removing vaccination as a condition of deployment (VCOD) for health and social care staff
- Useful resources to aid conversations about COVID-19 vaccinations
- Vaccination as a Condition of Deployment 2 (VCOD2) – letter from DHSC
- VCOD2 – top tips for home care providers
- VCOD2 – national webinar
- Pop-up vaccination clinics
- Changes in care home visiting
- Changes in testing regimes
- COVID-19 booster fraud
- IPC training
- Managing outbreaks in care homes helpful guide
- Worker retention package
- Other news: Care Professional of the Year Award ceremony
- Mandatory COVID-19 vaccination for the wider workforce
- Care home vaccinations via community pharmacies
- Reminder of specialist COVID-19 vaccination clinics for people with a learning disability and/or autism
- Self-isolation for those with COVID-19 can end after 5 full days following 2 negative LFD tests
- Outbreaks in care homes
- Updates to the COVID-19 supported living guidance
- Adult social care worker retention package
- Other news
- Urgent falls response service for Leicestershire care homes
- LLR staff mental health and wellbeing hub – outreach team offer
- Mandatory COVID-19 vaccination for the wider workforce
- COVID-19 booster vaccinations: reassurance for your workers
- Specialist COVID-19 vaccination clinics for people with a learning disability and/or autism
- Rapid access to COVID-19 PCR testing for frontline workers
- Changes to testing protocols and self-isolation
- Management of COVID-19 outbreaks in care homes
- Request for expressions of interest in relation to care home designated settings
- Extension of free COVID-19 PPE
- IPC training
- Management of infected linen
- VerifyPlus app
- Launch of Providing Care website webinar
- Finance Update
- Confirmatory PCR tests to be temporarily suspended for positive lateral flow test results
- Mandatory vaccination for the wider health and social care workforce
- Priority vaccination status for staff at walk-in clinics
- Importance of booster in protecting care home staff and residents
- Changed isolation periods in care homes
- New COVID-19 treatments
- Care homes – are you showing the correct ‘open or closed’ status for your beds?
- Launch of Providing Care website webinar, 26 January
- Guidance change roundup
2021 Coronavirus E-bulletins for care providers
- Delivering safe services over the festive period
- Booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine
- Care home visiting
- Visiting out of the care home
- Advice for contacts of confirmed cases of COVID-19
- Mandatory vaccination for the wider health and social care workforce
- Vaccination as a condition of deployment (VCOD) – extension to self-certification
- Funding Update
- Reminder of opportunity to provide services to support hospital discharge
- Workforce Development Fund
- Online course in effective complaint handling for care providers
- Cyber security alert
- New funding for adult social care
- New protective measures including visiting restrictions in care homes
- Booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine
- Opportunity to provide services to support hospital discharge
- New PPE portal platform – user research
- Other News
- Share your views on health and wellbeing support across Leicestershire
- Letter from the Directors on boosters for care home workers
- Booster jab available for over 40s
- Vaccination in pregnancy video
- Specialist Learning Disability COVID booster clinic
- COVID-19 fraudulent PCR test alert
- Seasonal decorations
- Updated guidance: extension to self-certification
- Other News
- People at the Heart of Care: adult social care reform white paper
- All About Medicines webinar for care home staff
- Omicron COVID-19 variant
- Pregnant women urged to get COVID-19 vaccine following new UK safety data
- Mandatory vaccination in the wider social care sector
- Specialist Learning Disability COVID booster clinic
- Free IPC newsletters
- Reminder of the importance of completing the capacity tracker
- Amendments to visiting arrangements in care homes - key guidance updates
- Changes in guidance for Supported Living
- COVID Pass fraud
- Infection Control and Testing Fund round 3 (ICTF3)
- Other News
- Webinar recording – Care Home Patient Review
- Free diabetes care home training programme
- Dentistry and access to oral health
- Developing Improvement Leaders - free course - expression of interest
- Information and Support Directory
- Building confidence in receiving the COVID-19 booster jab
- Big Vaccination Weekend
- Specialist Learning Disability COVID booster clinics
- COVID-19 vaccination: medical exemptions
- Discharges to care homes – summarised guidance
- Restricting workforce movement between care homes and other care settings
- New IPC good practice guide
- Workforce Recruitment and Retention Fund (WRF)
- Other news:
- Leicestershire County Council IT downtime 27 and 28 November
- Reminder about reporting safeguarding concerns and training
- Discharge to Assess (D2A) Pathway Two Review – soft market testing
- Bariatric Pilot to Inform the Discharge to Assess Pathway Two Review – soft market testing
- Working with people in their own homes - infection prevention and control measures
- Mandatory vaccination for the wider adult social care workforce
- Importance of booster vaccinations in COVID-19 protection
- Statement from ESPO - mandatory COVID-19 vaccination
- Funding update
- Leicestershire County Council IT downtime 27 and 28 November 2021
- Update on NHSX iPads support extension
- Now live: full vaccination for care home workers is mandatory
- Mandatory vaccination for the wider adult social care workforce
- Proxy access for ordering medications: support for care homes
- National Cold Weather Plan
- Virtual ‘Lead, Connect and Care’ Festival, 13-19 November 2021
- LLR Staff Mental Health and Wellbeing Hub – Celebration Event, 19 November
- 11 November deadline for full vaccination for care home workers
- Visiting professionals, tradespeople and volunteers entering care homes
- Verifyplus for care homes
- COVID-19 vaccination boosters
- Flu vaccination available to book online
- IPC Team number
- Harrogate IPC Team newsletters
- Leicestershire and Rutland DHU urgent falls response service
- Virtual ‘Lead, Connect and Care’ Festival, 13-19 November 2021
- Care Professional of the Year Awards 2022 – free nominations open!
- Winter vaccination video launched
- Reminder of COVID-19 medical exemption processes
- Test kit expiry dates
- Infection Control and Testing Fund – Round 3 (ICTF3)
- Provider return deadlines
- Requirements for providers
- Reminder of ‘extending free PPE to care sector beyond March 2022’ consultation launched
- Emergency PPE
- Quarantine and Recall for Obisk
- Importance of seasonal flu vaccinations
- COVID-19 protection and boosters
- Webinar recording on medical exemption for care home workers
- Being ready for your care home’s vaccination visit
- Reminder of end of consultation for mandatory vaccinations in health and social care
- Reminder of ‘extending free PPE to care sector beyond March 2022’ consultation
- Winter vaccines – COVID-19 and seasonal flu
- Needle phobia e-learning module
- Leicestershire County Council Passenger Fleet Team vaccination statement
- National funding update
- Frailty assessment e-learning
- Social Care Festival of Practice
- Significant health and social care system pressures
- Mandatory vaccinations in care homes – the importance of a second dose
- NHS COVID pass for medical exemptions
- Capacity Tracker update for care home staff regarding COVID exemption self-certification and those vaccinated abroad
- COVID-19 boosters – more locations available
- Moving into flu season
- Extending free PPE to care sector beyond March 2022: consultation launched
- LLR Mental Health and Wellbeing Hub for health and social care staff
- Infection Control and Testing Fund (ICTF)
- Improving care home staff flu vaccination rates
- Pregnancy and COVID-19: why vaccination is so important
- Temporary medical exemption from vaccination – workers entering care homes
- Mandatory care home vaccinations – TASL
- Covid-19 boosters
- Changes to outbreak management in care homes
- Reminder - consultation on mandatory vaccination of health and social care staff
- Infection Control and Testing Fund (ICTF)
- Voiding of expired COVID-19 tests
- PPE portal update
- Infection Prevention and Control contact details
- Workforce Development Fund workshops
- Supporting care home nurses
- Fuel supply
- Mandatory vaccinations in care homes – workers’ dose 2
- Vaccine doses not showing on NHS records
- Covid-19 booster programme – overview
- Covid-19 boosters – detailed information for adult social care workers
- ‘Connecting Together’ respiratory infection webinar for care homes
- Government funding for social care
- One day remaining for care home worker first COVID-19 vaccine doses
- Vaccination support to people who have needle phobia
- Medical exemption from vaccination
- Asking your employee or worker to work somewhere other than where they’re self-isolating
- Two days remaining for care home worker first COVID-19 vaccine doses
- Medical exemption from vaccination
- Business continuity for care homes
- COVID-19 boosters
- Consultation on mandatory vaccination of health and social care staff
- Infection Control and Testing Fund
- Important reminder of imminent care home worker vaccination deadline
- How to book your jab – it’s not too late!
- Medical exemptions from vaccinations
- Individuals vaccinated outside the UK
- Fertility, pregnancy, and COVID-19: why getting vaccinated is so important
- Support from Primary Care Network or GPs
- Care Provider Alliance hosted webinars and resources
- Preparing for vaccinations in autumn / winter 2021
- Extension to remote right to work checks
- Infection Control and Testing Fund
- Residential care fee review
- Importance of updating workforce information on the Capacity Tracker
- New government plan for health and social care
- Mandatory vaccination in care homes: NHS staff
- COVID-19 vaccination and pregnancy, breastfeeding and fertility
- Capacity Tracker update
- Testing visitors to care homes
- Workforce Development Fund
- Coronavirus Life Assurance
- What is the requirement?
- Results of ‘readiness’ survey
- Building vaccine confidence – and help from the Health Protection Team
- Recruitment support available from Inspired to Care
- Support to care homes from GPs and PCNs
- Medical exemption
- Updating business continuity plans
- Mental health and wellbeing support
- Other news: self-isolation and visitors to care homes
- Thank you for helping to protect the people you care for
- Mandatory vaccination – template communication for care home contractors or visiting professionals
- Support to care homes from GPs and PCNs for mandatory vaccinations
- Care home vaccination status questionnaire
- Change in guidance regarding isolation for close contacts of positive cases
- PPE - ‘how to work safely in domiciliary care’ guidance
- Mandatory COVID-19 vaccination for workers in care homes
- Mandatory vaccination – webinar for care home managers
- Drop-in COVID-19 vaccination clinics
- Self-isolation from 16 August 2021
- LLR support to care home managers for mandatory vaccination – letter from the Directors
- Exemption from isolation requests - management of critical social care staff identified as a contact of a case
- Pregnancy vaccination resources
- Importance of Covid-19 testing
- Finance update
- Trainer training for FFP3 mask fit testing
- Transparent face masks
- Reminder of changes to adult social care provider COVID-19 conference calls
- Mandatory vaccinations for care home workers
- Encouraging more pregnant people to be vaccinated
- Get vaxxed – enjoy being back
- COVID-19 restriction changes from 19 July 2021
- Exclusion from isolation for close contacts in exceptional circumstances
- PPE guidance updates
- Visiting arrangements in care homes
- Visits out of the care home
- National flu immunisation programme 2021-22
- Mandatory COVID-19 vaccination for people working in care homes
- Adult social care provider COVID-19 conference calls
- National restriction lifting from Monday 19 July – caution
- Care Home Testing
- Drop-in Vaccination Clinics
- Extension to the Infection Control and Testing Fund (ICTF2)
- Current heatwave position
- National online survey about care home data collection and sharing
- Thank you letter from Sajid Javid MP
- Vaccination drop-in clinics (Tuesday 6 July – Tuesday 13 July)
- Mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations for care home workers - survey closes Sunday 11 July 2021
- Encouraging staff who are pregnant or may become pregnant in the future to be vaccinated
- Sharing good practice dementia care webinar
- Important changes to the Capacity Tracker
- Infection Control and Testing Fund round 2
- We need your help by 11 July to shape vaccination support to care homes
- Adults including social care workers remain eligible for their vaccine
- Healthy Conversations toolkit reminder
- Good IPC in Care Homes
- What happens with Capacity Tracker information?
- LPT Care Home Training Team
- Infection Control and Testing Fund
- The ‘big COVID-19 vaccination weekend’ – Friday 25 to Sunday 27 June
- Mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations for older people’s care home workers
- Increasing confidence in having the vaccine
- Changes for care homes from 21 June
- Launch of Inspired to Care recruitment advert
- Relatives of care home residents: information sought
- Last minute reminders
- Changes for care homes from 21 June
- Proposed mandatory COVID-19 vaccination for older people’s care home workers
- Drop-in COVID-19 clinics running at the Peepul Centre
- Reminder – drop-in COVID-19 vaccination clinics in Loughborough
- WhatsApp information service for care homes and home care
- Wearing PPE in hot weather
- Hot weather and heatwave planning
- Infection Control and Testing Fund (ICTF)
- Infection Control Fund, Workforce Capacity Fund and Rapid Testing Fund
- Drop in COVID-19 vaccination clinics in Loughborough
- Vaccine confidence Healthy Conversations Toolkit videos
- Important reminder about the ‘await care’ list for home care
- Inspired to Care recruitment campaign - load your vacancies now!
- Infection Control and Testing Fund (ICTF)
- EU Settlement Scheme – final reminder
- Data Security Prevention Toolkit (DSPT)
- Thank you letter to adult social care workers from DHSC
- Consultation outcome: stopping the movement of staff between care settings
- Double bagging linen – walk-through video
- Finance update
- Vaccines webinar recording
- Availability of vaccines for adult social care staff
- Care home visiting and government position for Leicester
- Walk-up ‘dose 1’ vaccination clinics for workers from some City postcodes
- Response to updated government advice for Leicester
- ‘Right to Work’ checks
- PPE for Aerosol Generating Procedures
- Scam callers
- Hospital discharges
- Finance update
- Leicestershire County Council home care survey update - contracted providers
- Complete the Digital Skills survey and get a £10 voucher
- Update to national care home visiting guidance
- Resident Visits out of a Care Home
- ‘How to work safely in care homes’ guidance
- Launch of WhatsApp updates for home care
- Largest ever recruitment marketing campaign
- Launch of WhatsApp updates for care homes
- COVID-19 vaccination update for those under 40 years of age
- Second dose vaccination slots
- Reminder: consultation on COVID-19 staff vaccination for care homes
- Visits to care homes from 17 May
- Laundry - double bagging
- Infection Control and Testing Fund
- DHSC COVID-19 cost pressure survey
- Updated guidance: outdoor visits from care homes
- Visits to care homes of non-NHS contractors - advice from Public Health England
- Patient safety support for care homes
- ‘Five things to stop the spread’ for home care, supported living and extra care
- World Hand Hygiene Day 2021: seconds save lives – clean your hands!
- Workforce Capacity Fund
- National booking service re-opens for social care staff COVID-19 vaccinations
- Vaccination options for under 30s
- Importance of correct entries to the National Capacity Tracker
- Aerosol Generating Procedures (AGP) questionnaire
- Right to work checks
- COVID-19 vaccination - dose 2
- Visits out of care homes
- New COVID-19 drop-in vaccination clinic in Beaumont Leys
- Finance update
- Care home staff testing - why both PCR and LFT?
- FFP3 fit test operator training
- Better Security, Better Care - free local support for care providers
- COVID-19 outbreaks in Leicestershire care homes: thank you
- COVID-19 staff vaccination for care homes with older adult residents: national consultation
- How to Work Safely - new PPE guidance for home care (April 2021)
- Good practice guidance for professionals visiting LLR care homes during COVID-19
- COVID-19 considerations for care home residents voting in local elections
- What to do with waste including PPE
- Workforce Capacity Fund
- Provider teleconferences
- COVID-19 vaccination update – amended guidance on AstraZeneca vaccination for those aged 29 and under
- COVID-19 staff vaccination for care homes with older adult residents: national consultation
- Testing information requests to care homes
- Fit test operator training
- Infection Control and Testing Fund (ICTF)
- Government care home visiting guidance update
- LLR Professional Visitors to Care Homes guidance
- PPE guidance changes
- Extension to the free PPE scheme
- Lateral Flow Tests in Supported Living
- Resuscitation guidelines during COVID-19 – reminder
- Health and care workers – changes to coronavirus vaccination booking
- Infection Control and Testing Fund (ICTF)
- Residential and nursing care fees - inflationary uplift 2021/22
- COVID-19 vaccination – a webinar answering your questions on pregnancy and fertility
- Test kits – ethylene oxide
- Testing in supported living
- Local reflections - a year on from first lockdown
- Messages of Thanks board
- Fit test operator training
- ‘Check before you share’ – vaccine false information
- ‘Dose 1’ care home worker vaccinations
- Home Care Testing
- Home care over the Easter period
- Funding update
- Fortnightly provider conference calls
- New visiting guidance
- Visiting professionals testing guidance is live
- COVID-19 vaccination second doses
- Pregnancy and fertility webinar – 24 March
- Resuscitation guidelines during COVID-19
- Ordering medication using proxy access: guidance for care homes, GP practices and community pharmacies
- Infection Control Fund (ICF)
- Workforce Capacity Fund (WCF)
- Supporting vaccine confidence amongst adult social care workers
- Skills for Care digital update – COVID-19
- Accessing live music online
- Free tools and software for social care
- Supporting vaccine confidence amongst care home staff
- COVID vaccination advice if you're of childbearing age, pregnant or breastfeeding
- Letter to families and friends of those living in care homes in Leicestershire about the new visiting guidance
- Guidance on Care Home Visiting – updated 4 March 2021
- Five key messages to stop the spread in care homes
- Vaccinations for frontline health and social care staff
- Vaccination centre walk through videos
- Reminder to cancel vaccination appointments if no longer required
- Finance
- Care Home Trusted Assessors – supporting care homes
- Message from NHS Counter Fraud Team about Lateral Flow Test kit scam
- Capacity Tracker – infection control questions
- Government roadmap to cautiously ease lockdown restrictions
- ‘One visitor’ policy for care homes
- Updated guidance on discharges
- Vaccination Webinar on Saturday
- BAME vaccination engagement conversation events
- Drop-in regional vaccine seminar for frontline social care staff
- New Leicestershire hospital vaccination hub goes live
- GP vaccination locations
- Useful vaccination information for staff
- Workforce Capacity Fund
- Care Home Testing Changes
- Next phase of the DHSC recruitment campaign
- New Leicestershire social care enquiry and bookings phone line
- COVID-19 vaccination now available at the Loughborough hospital hub
- Webinars to answer staff questions
- Frequently asked vaccination questions in LLR
- Monthly reporting - ICF2 and Rapid Testing Fund
- ICF2 Discretionary Fund
- New Leicestershire social care provider and staff vaccination enquiry web page
- COVID-19 vaccination at the Leicestershire hospital hubs
- COVID-19 vaccinations available at Nuneaton and Coventry
- COVID-19 vaccination in Primary Care Network centres
- National message of support for COVID-19 vaccination
- Regional vaccine hesitancy webinar
- Self-test guidance for care home staff using Lateral Flow Tests
- New social care provider and staff vaccination enquiry email address
- COVID-19 vaccination resources
- Encouraging vaccinations in Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities
- COVID-19 hospital hubs
- COVID-19 vaccination data for the capacity tracker
- Care home testing update: Lateral Flow Device (LFDs) approval for self-test granted
- Business continuity plans
- Statement on working during isolation period
- Rapid Testing Fund
- COVID-19 vaccination programme
- COVID-19 vaccination video for people with a Learning Disability and/or Autism
- COVID-19 positive discharge process
- COVID-positive ‘designated settings’
- Summary of testing in social care settings
- Lateral (Rapid) Flow Tests
- Rapid Testing Fund
- PCR testing for home care workers
- Infection control fund (ICF)
- Free ‘CARE’ badges
- Demonstration of hand hygiene and donning / doffing of PPE
- Training opportunities
- Priority groups for vaccination
- All care providers: preparing your staff for vaccination
- All care providers: information and publicity materials
- Care home, home care, supported living and community life choices: manager dial-in sessions including vaccination Q&A
- Care homes: preparing for on-site vaccinations
- Care homes: vaccination locations for workers
- Care homes: open dial-in vaccination Q&A sessions for workers
- It’s down to us to help stop the spread of coronavirus
- COVID-19 vaccine programme update
- Encouraging staff to take up their COVID-19 vaccination
- Changes in offering the second COVID-19 vaccine dose
- Free COVID-19 PPE for care sector extended to June 2021
- Aerosol Generating Procedures (AGP)
- Infection Control Fund
- Lateral Flow Testing ‘Frequently Asked Questions’
- Fortnightly provider conference calls
- Revised care home visiting guidance for LLR
- Coronavirus vaccination roll-out
- Encouraging workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19
- Vaccination scam
- Care home visits
- Residential care - annual fee review
- Infection Control Fund
- Completion of the capacity tracker
- Financial support for increased testing in care homes
2020 Coronavirus E-bulletins for care providers
- End of year message from Jon Wilson, Director of Adults and Communities and Mike Sandys, Director of Public Health
- Coronavirus vaccinations
- Christmas Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) orders
- Testing over the festive period
- Winter wellbeing and mental health support for people in Leicestershire and Rutland
- Social Care Data Security and Protection Toolkit (DSPT) Update
- EU Exit preparations – transport
- Infection Control Fund – discretionary grant application
- Winter pressures and hospital discharges – home care
- Guidelines for visitors to residential and nursing homes in Leicestershire, Leicester City and Rutland
- Capacity tracker
- End of EU Exit transition period: keeping data safe
- Community coronavirus testing set to start in New Year
- Leicestershire Adult Social Care Winter Plan
- Staying safe over the Christmas holidays – home care
- Covid vaccination set to begin in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland
- Accuracy of lateral flow tests
- Coronavirus testing for home care workers
- Coronavirus testing for Extra Care and Supported Living settings
- Covid vaccine availability in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland
- Christmas and New Year PPE orders
- European Union (EU) exit
- Infection Control Fund (ICF) – Round 2
- Skills for Care update
- Visiting arrangements in care homes
- Arrangements for visiting out of the care home
- COVID-19 vaccinations
- Lateral flow testing and visiting in care homes
- It’s down to us to help stop the spread of coronavirus
- Working Time Regulations
- Infection Control Fund
- Regional Infection Prevention Control (IPC) webinar for home care providers
- Weekly testing for home care workers
- Lateral flow testing
- Skills for Care consultation on delegated health care tasks for frontline care workers and managers
- Covid-19 vaccination programme for adult social care
- Ensure that your workforce is protected against seasonal flu
- Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland (LLR) care home visiting policy
- Help control the spread of COVID-19
- Guidance for care home visits
- Ensuring that your workforce business continuity planning is robust
- Seasonal flu vaccinations – doses available
- Flu vaccination recording on the care tracker
- Enjoying festive decorations in your setting
- Inspired to Care – recruitment support
- Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS)
- Infection Control Fund (ICF)
- Department of Health and Social Care consultation on care staff movement
- Care home ‘designated settings’ for discharge of Covid-positive patients
- Infection Control Fund – Round 2 (ICF2)
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): admission and care of people in care homes guidance
- Clinically extremely vulnerable people guidance
- Test results for people discharged to home care
- Seasonal flu vaccination programme
- Impact of new national restrictions on care home visiting policy
- Supporting hospital discharges
- Updated guidance on the use of gloves in home care
- Reminder about move of provider calls to Microsoft Teams
- Move to tier 2 for Charnwood
- COVID-19 negative discharges – reminder about isolation and IPC
- Discharges to designated care home settings for COVID-19 positive people
- DHSC coronavirus testing update for care home managers
- Supporting people with LD and Autism
- Infection Control Fund
- Provider conference calls
- New at-home antibody testing service
- Care Home Visiting Guidance
- Infection Control Fund
- Winter Contingency Planning Webinars
- Winter Plan and Infection Control Fund Round 2
- PPE Portal for Care Providers
- Vinyl Gloves
- Tablet Devices for Care Homes
- Look after yourself and help control the spread of COVID-19
- National Testing Programme Rollout
- Infection Control Fund – Round 2 (ICF2)
- Repayment of the ‘forward payment’ made in April
- Protect yourself, your family and the people we care for from flu this winter
- Updated guidance on the use of Personal protective Equipment (PPE) for domiciliary care
- Updated guidance for staff supporting adults with learning disabilities and autism
- Update on care home coronavirus testing
- Antibody home testing for social care staff
- Recruitment advertising
- Care home visiting policy
- Care home visiting guidance for health and social care professionals
- Flu vaccination programme
- Infection Control Fund
- Mental health support for social care professionals
- Care home clinical leads
- Oadby and Wigston lockdown – changes to care home visiting policy
- Adult Social Care COVID-19 Winter Plan 2020 to 2021
- Infection Control Fund (ICF)
- Return of the forward payment
- Care homes testing tracker
- Car sharing
- Personal responsibility of the workforce
- Developing a COVID-19 safe visiting policy
- Mike Sandys, Director of Public Health, Leicestershire County Council, message to care homes regarding visiting arrangements (16.9.20)
- Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
- Important information about the end of the Infection Control Fund (ICF scheme)
- Discharge to assess: individuals’ financial contributions to or funding of care costs
- New safeguarding guidance
- Consultation on distributing vaccines
- Antibody testing for adult social care staff
- LSCDG digital offer - webinars and e-Learning
- LSCDG Care Certificate live webinar
- Caring for friends and family as an unpaid carer
- Admissions to care homes - updated guidance
- Weekend testing in care homes
- Changes to shielding guidance
- Updated reuse of medicines guidance issued
- Care home visitor arrangements
- Access to the PPE eportal and LFR Emergency PPE
- Health and social care protocol review training requirements
- DHSC updates to guidance
- LPT’s community health service - new contact details for referrals
- Clinical lead
- Diabetes care in care homes – for care homes only
- Infection Control Fund
- Provider teleconference calls
- Local Resilience Forum (LRF) emergency PPE stock
- ADASS – Care home infection control top tips
- Update to ‘Admission and care of residents in a care home during Covid-19’ guidance
- NHS Test and Trace service: Randox Test Kit update
- An innovation competition from ADASS
- Recognising the deterioration of a patient
- PPE guidance for home and residential care providers
- Financial support in August and September for additional Covid-19 costs
- Changes to care home visitor policies in Oadby and Wigston
- Changes to the self-isolation period
- Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) update on care home testing
- ReSPECT awareness
- Exemption cards or badges
- Fraud prevention review of the continence service
- Local guidance on care home visitor arrangements
- Care home plan reminder
- Updates to Care Home guidance
- Skills for Care webinars for providers
- Consideration of exceptional COVID-19 costs
- Coronavirus related scams
- Care Homes Visiting Guidance
- New Infection Prevention Control (IPC) training
- Support in August and September for additional Covid-19 costs
- Infection Control Fund (ICF) update
- July support for additional Covid-19 costs
- Weekly provider calls
- Easier to find information on our website
- Stay safe this summer – heatwave preparation
- Care home plan guide for local providers
- Withdrawal of selected types of PPE
- Department of Health and Social Care – update on testing in care homes
- Safety in care homes
- PPE portal: How to order emergency personal protective equipment
- Recall of Cardinal Type IRR face masks
- Care for others, make a difference
- The ASC Risk Reduction Framework
- COVID-19: verifying death in times of emergency
- Admission and care of residents in a care home during COVID-19
- COVID-19 testing reminder
- Interpretation of COVID-19 swab test results
- Antibody testing
- Making decisions as COVID-19 guidance changes
- Infection Control Fund
- Support in June for adult social care provider, additional Covid-19 costs
- Updated PPE guidance
- Infection Prevention Control and self – isolation reminder
- Test and trace roll ou
- Infection Prevention Control Fund
- Testing including mental capacity considerations
- Guidance on the new Test and Trace service
- PPE including FFP3 mask fit testing
- Dementia support information
- Infection Control Fund allocation
- Finance update about additional costs
- Top up payments
- Mental health support
- Decision maker arrangements
- PPE
- FFP mask fit testing support
- PPE for carrying out aerosol generating procedures (AGP)
- Home care risk ratings
- Financial update about forward payments
- Coronavirus testing update
- PPE guidance for working in domiciliary care and care homes
- Coronavirus testing update
- Finance update
- Updated guidance, workforce sharing and volunteers
- Residential and nursing care fees
- PPE ordering and escalation process
- Finance questions answered
- Manager availability and reporting
- New discharge hub
- Financial support
- Provider teleconferences
- Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
- Financial stability
- Recruitment support
- Provider capacity survey
- Deprivation of liberty safeguards (DoLS)
- Working with adult social care providers during Coronavirus