Back to the Provider Hub FUNDING On this page: Workforce Return for Market Sustainability and Improvement Fund – May 2024 Winter Discharge Support Funding 2022 Social Care Funding Reform – Fair Cost of Care (65+ Care Homes) Social Care Funding Reform...
Department of Health & Social Care If you have any further questions please look at the Department of Health and Social Care’s (DHSC) guidance documents which can be found here. If you have further questions please call 119 or join one of the DHSC’s...
Back to the Provider Hub Covid-19 Guidance and Webinar Resources Please find below recent webinars delivered for Care Providers Click a title below to access the resources... TitleSlidesRecordingFAQsPPE Audit TemplateHand Hygiene Audit TemplateHand Hygiene Audit...
Back to the Provider Hub Care Provider Visitor Guidance On this page: Precautions for visitors – Updated visitor guidance 15/12/22 Update from Head of Health Protection team around visiting guidance – 18/10/22 Update August 2022 – Temperature checks...
Test kit orders can only be delivered to a care agency’s address as registered with the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Orders cannot be delivered to other locations, such as an individual homecare worker’s personal address. If your offices are closed due to...
For some of you who have already received your test kits to conduct testing, today marks the first weekend of testing. Here are some useful reminders for the first weekend of testing: All testing must only be conducted between Thursday and Sunday Homecare staff should...
Each test kit distributed to your homecare workers includes a set of instructions on how to conduct, register and return the test. These instructions include separate registration instructions for “If you have received a test kit to use at home” or “If you’re testing...
Back to the Provider Hub COVID-19: SHIELDING and food resources Click here to visit the Food Availability Page Shielding and protecting people who are clinically extremely vulnerable from COVID-19 COVID-19 case numbers are rising across the whole of the UK. ...
Back to the Provider Hub COVID-19: Testing For the most up-to-date guidance on PCR testing for Care homes and supported living please click here In summary: Please note that from Saturday April 1st any PCR tests returned via existing routes will not be...
The following text is an excerpt taken directly from the CPA website: Introduction This protocol has been produced following understandable calls from residents, friends and families, providers and staff to enable visiting to residential homes after a long and...
Funding 87% of Hertfordshire care providers have now made a claim to us for their first instalment of the Government Infection Control Fund which can only be used for staffing-related costs. This week HCC have written to all providers that are contracted by the County...
Click here to view the latest local and national swabbing guidance Swabs – Please check barcodes Dear Care Home Cell Colleagues, Please note below updated guidance on care homes and key information about Kingfisher swabs. Guidance Care home guidance is now live...
Please see the below information from the CPA: Page navigation: Business Continuity Planning Business continuity planning: guidance and template Insurance Business Continuity Planning The CPA is producing guidance and templates to help independent and voluntary...
Dear colleagues, At the request of Public Health England (PHE), we have added a number of additional questions to the Capacity Tracker relating specifically to systematically identifying ‘recovery from outbreaks of COVID-19 in care homes’. Around 40% of care homes in...
We recently launched the Emergency Support Framework (ESF), which has been developed to underpin our regulatory approach during the coronavirus pandemic. To support its implementation, over the past couple of weeks we ran a series of webinars for providers setting out...
There has never been a greater need for us to show our appreciation for the incredible work our social care staff carry out in Hertfordshire. With the upcoming Bank-Holiday weekend, and some slight easing of restrictions in certain parts, we know it is going to be...
If your organisation is performing aerosol generating procedures, we are asking for you to let us know by filling in this short form here. What are Aerosol generating procedures: Current national PPE guidance states that enhanced respiratory PPE is indicated for...
COVID-19 is circulating highly in the community (as confirmed by Public Health England (PHE) on 12 April 2020), and the likelihood that any service user receiving care having coronavirus infection is raised. Therefore as detailed in Table 4 of the COVID-19 infection...
Supermarkets in Hertfordshire are selling a pre-selected number of food items for people who are unable to go shopping, such as the elderly and vulnerable in the form of food parcels. Take a look at the list below of what food parcels supermarkets are currently...
Through our HCPA volunteer coordination centre, we still have many people available that would be happy to assist your organisation by volunteering. There are many roles that a volunteer could fit into for you, hassle free. These fall into the following categories:...
