Book online here

education@dovehouse.org.uk
Tel:  01482 785783  Fax:  01482 701433
www.dovehouse.org.uk

The event will be the launch pad of the board’s Safeguarding strategy for the city as we continue to move forward to keep our community safe.

Presentations include a ground breaking partnership scheme with Humberside Fire and Rescue Service to purchase and install domestic sprinkler systems to save lives from fire and the introduction of a Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub to reflect national best practice.

A full programme will be sent nearer the date

To reserve places please email sab@hullcc.gov.uk providing name, job role, workbase address and contact email.

For more information on the work of the Hull Safeguarding Adults Board visit www.safeguardingadultshull.com

You can take a short online survey to give your views.

Target audience:

This training is essential for all social care and health staff and providers of care working in statutory, independent and voluntary sectors

Bookings:

Please email sab@hullcc.gov.uk for unlimited places per session (120 places available per session) providing name, job role, workbase address and email

This training is based on the following:

An introduction to Threshold documents and safeguarding risk assessment framework

• Principles of working with risk
• A shared understanding of risk

The effective management of risk and review of incidents should be supported by sound risk assessment and protection/care planning which must outline the structures in place to manage the broad range of financial and organisational risks encountered in delivering complex service arrangements.

Principal requirements are:

• Processes to identify and assess risk; evaluate measures reducing the chance of something going wrong by effective protection/care planning
• Training for staff and managers.
• Assessments carried out and regularly updated by competent staff for all identified risks.
• Assessment that involves a level of management that is appropriate to the nature and scale of the risk.
• Decisions should be clearly recorded and the resulting actions implemented.
• Clear reporting procedures established for each service where the identification of risk and risk management actions are recorded.
• Services must ensure that appropriate, cost effective actions are taken to manage and control risk.

There have already been discussions between the council, LINk host and LINk Steering Group to agree a way forward for the final year of the LINk and ensure members can continue to have their say on local services and receive regular updates, information and event invitations. The next meeting of the LINk Steering Group will agree plans for the next major LINk investigation and publication of this year’s LINk Annual Report. More information on this will follow later in May 2012. If you have any queries please contact the LINk host office.

Patients will be “put at the heart of the NHS” and have more choice over how and where they are treated. They will be given control over their care records and be able to compare the performance of hospitals and clinicians online. The government promises to scrap “top-down” targets in favour of a regime based on clinical outcomes. An independent NHS Commissioning Board will oversee the new regime, with local councils taking over the public health element of the PCTs’ work, and GPs taking the responsibility for commissioning local health services.

Liberating the NHS – the health secretary, Andrew Lansley sets out a wide range of radical measures, including proposals to:

• Give groups of GPs responsibility for commissioning NHS services through the creation of GP consortia across England.
• Allow patients to register with whichever GP practice they choose, regardless of where they live.
• Enable patients to choose which hospital and consultant-led team they want to be treated by.
• Force all NHS trusts to become self-governing foundation trusts with the “aim to create the largest social enterprise sector in the world”.
• Establish a new independent NHS Commissioning Board to oversee GP commissioning.
• Phase out 150 primary care trusts and 10 strategic health authorities, at the cost of thousands of administrative jobs.
• Reduce NHS management costs by more than 45% over the next four years.
• Cut numbers of NHS quangos and streamline the Department of Health.
• Give councils responsibility to support integration across health and social care.
• Ring fence the public health budget.
• Oblige doctors to keep data on their own performance and publish detailed evidence of hospital mortality rates.
• Establish a new consumer champion, HealthWatch England, to strengthen the voice of patients and the public, under the aegis of the Care Quality Commission, but led by local authorities.

As a provider of NHS services City Health Care Partnership has to consult on developing priorities for improvement as part of its annual Quality Accounts which will be published in June 2012.

You can vote for your top choice in each of the three headings in a short online survey at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/3XK8QRF

For more information on the choices for each of the priorities click here.

This is the legislation that will introduce major reform of the NHS in England. Main provisions of the act include:

• Abolition of Primary Care Trusts and creation of Clinical Commissioning Groups
• Creation of statutory Health and Wellbeing Boards
• Establishment of HealthWatch England and Local HealthWatch

For more information visit the Department of Health site.

Carers’ Centre Hull Information Bus

Takes to the Streets

with a Whole Host of Community Services

Discount on Gym Memberships & other Leisure Activities plus Free Massages for Carers!

Tuesday 10^th April – Saturday 14^th April

Many of the estimated 23,000 unpaid carers in Hull are now receiving far greater, more accessible support and information near to their own homes with ‘Care-About, an outreach project for carers’. Outreaches are held across the city on a weekly basis and Care-About has access to an information bus four weeks a year, thanks to a generous five year grant from the Big Lottery Reaching Communities Fund.

What is an unpaid carer?

“A carer is someone of any age who provides unpaid support to family or friends who could not manage without this help due to illness, disability, mental ill-health or a substance misuse problem.” Princess Royal Trust for Carers, 2010

Many individuals we meet don’t recognise themselves as carers, despite the high level of support they provide, time and time again carers tell us “it’s just something you do isn’t it? Care for a loved one when they need your support, I didn’t recognise myself as an unpaid carer”. Alison, 34, of Bransholme.

However, caring can creep up on any of us, before you know it you have less and less time to actually see what support is out there, whether it be financial, emotional or practical. Just offloading onto another person can relieve some of the stresses and strains of caring. We are here to listen and put carers and the people they care for in touch with the right support, advice and information.

Kath Nicholson Assistant Manager of the Carers Centre says:  “we advise hundreds of carers every year and know that if carers are provided  with the relevant information and support their caring role can be less stressful, a more positive experience and lead to better physical and mental health”

Remember… whether you are receiving Carer’s Allowance or not, you may still be classed as an unpaid carer. There is definitely more support out there than you think.

In addition to having a wide range of community services on the information bus, carers will also be able to learn about how to increase their well-being and improve their health. Gymophobics will be onboard offering discounted gym memberships for carers who register with us and the British Red Cross will be promoting their free therapeutic massage service for carers and disabled people.

The bus will be around the city on the following days:

• Tuesday 10/04/2012 North Point Bransholme- Outside Fordyke pub: 10am – 4 pm
• Wednesday 11/04/2012 Walton Street Market: 8 am – 12pm
• Thursday 12/04/2012 Elmbridge Parade – Greatfield Estate: 10am – 4pm
• Friday 13/04/2012 Tesco, Hall Road, Nr Orchard Park:  10am – 4pm
• Saturday 14/04/2012 Queen Victoria Square, City Centre: 10am – 4pm

To find out more about the work of the Centre, or support for carers generally, please telephone, email, call in the Centre or access the Carers’ Centre website on www.carerscentrehull.org.uk

For further information on the Big Lottery Reaching Communities Fund access the Big Lottery Reaching Communities website on http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/prog_reaching_communities

Carers’ Centre Hull telephone: 01482 – 225078

Email: information@carerscentrehull.org.uk