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New!!!!!! A public information course providing valuable information about The New National Framework for NHS Continuing Healthcare. This free course is available to view (What you should know about NHS Continuing Healthcare). The course provides valuable up-to-date information to anyone for whom NHS Continuing Healthcare is important, particularly service users and their carers, so I think visitors to your website will find this interactive course useful. The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement is a new and exciting venture which will provide an ambitious focus for new ideas, technologies and practices to improve services to patients, users and the public. The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement was established as a Special Health Authority from July 2005 and is based on the campus of the University of Warwick. The quantitative results from a research study conducted during April and May 2004. This report summarises the key findings regarding public perceptions of employment in health and social care, conducted on behalf of Birmingham and the Black Country Strategic Health Authority by the MORI Social Research Institute. The CSCI inspect and report on care services and councils to improve social care and stamp out bad practice. The site is well worth visiting (http://www.csci.org.uk) but in particular the following pages may be helpful: This fact sheet gives basic introductory guidance about:
The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) and the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) have produced joint practice guidance Dementia – Supporting people with dementia and their carers in health and social care The guideline covers the identification, treatment and care of people with dementia and support for carers within healthcare and social care in England and Wales. For the first time social workers in mental health and older people’s teams, along with care workers in domiciliary care, residential and nursing homes, will be expected to follow the same guidelines as healthcare professionals in the NHS. SCIE’s website includes implementation advice for social care and health professionals. The key recommendations of the guideline include: · There should be a coordinated and integrated approach between health and social care to treat and care for people with dementia and their carers. · The needs of carers should be assessed by health and social care professionals and support should be offered as part of a coordinated care plan. · Memory assessment services should be the single point of referral for all people with a possible diagnosis of dementia. · People with dementia should not be excluded from any recommended services because of their diagnosis, age (whether designated too young or too old) or coexisting learning disability. Click here to access the guideline on SCIE’s website SCIE also has a number of related guidelines designed to improve services for older people and their carers, including: · Practice guide 02: Assessing the mental health needs of older people · Practice guide 05: Implementing the Carers Equal Opportunities Act 2004 · Practice guide 09: Dignity in care
'The social care and social work workforce is the backbone of this country’s care system.' 'If we are to ensure that children and adults are looked after in a way that preserves their dignity and peace of mind, it is vital that we have a world class workforce that is skilled, dedicated and valued and supported to do its best.' Get your copy of the review Options for excellence: Building the social care workforce of the future (October 2006) here
Spencer, a student at Bournville College of Further Education and a South Birmingham PCT employee, is one of only 87 lucky people to achieve the 2006 award and pipped over 750,000 other entrants to land the City & Guilds Medal for Excellence for his outstanding performance on a health & social care course. Spencer, made redundant after 15 years with Rover, made a complete career change following a care taster course at Bournville College. This led to an job with Complex Care [South Birmingham PCT] where he is now a team leader. After finding work he continued to train with the college achieving NVQ level 3 and then level 4 in Health & Social Care. City & Guilds, the UK’s leading awarding body for work-related qualifications, has awarded the coveted medals every year since 1879. The Medals for Excellence programme rewards talented people who have displayed exceptional standards as students or educational professionals, and whose portfolio and achievements put them a cut above the rest. According to the City & Guilds judging panel: ‘Spencer clearly shows in his reflective accounts that he is a reflective practitioner and will seek out knowledge. The testimonies confirm this and praise Spencer’s skills as a carer’. He is a deserving recipient of the Medal for Excellence and we are delighted to have chosen him for the award’. Spencer who has won a place at university to study as an Operating Department Practitioner will be presented with his medal at a local ceremony and will also attend the prestigious Lion Awards in London on 16 April 2007.
Useful Sources of Information on Nutrition
British Heart Foundation http://www.bhf.org.uk
Food Standards Agency [FSA] http://www.foodstandards.gov.uk
British Diabetic association http://www.diabetes.org.uk
Chartered Institute of Environmental Health [CIEH] http://www.cieh.org
Caroline Walker Trust – A Newsletter and Practical. http://www.cwt.org.uk
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36 year-old health & social care worker from Birmingham, Spencer
Hampton, has scooped a rare City & Guilds Medal for Excellence award
in recognition of his exceptional work.
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