A-Z of support
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- Accommodation Directory for Keyworkers
- ADASS eNews Issue 719
- ADASS/ LGA hub update
- additional funding to help adult social care this winter
- Admission and Care of Residents in a Care Home during COVID-19 Summary Guidance
- Admissions to Care Homes from Community Settings
- Adult Social Care Plan
- Adult Social Care Infection Control and Testing Fund – Round 3
- Adult Social Care Infection Control Fund – CPA briefing note for care providers
- A New CQC Strategy – A New CQC Webinar is launched!
- Antibody test; how to register for one
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- Bereavement support guide for professionals
- Bereavement support information during COVID-19
- Bite size guide for overseas recruitment
- Bits and Bytes newsletter
- BLMK Acoustic Monitoring Pilot Care Homes Event October 2021
- BLMK CCG Newsletter
- Business Continuity Plans – Care Provider Business Impact Analysis Template
- Business Continuity Plans – Providers Care Setting Emergency and Business Continuity Plan Template
- Business Continuity Plans – Critical Building Resilience Assessment
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- Capacity Tracker changes
- Capacity Tracker – Demo for Discharge
- Capacity Tracker – Regional Data Pack
- Capacity Tracker – Systems Champion Pack
- Capacity Tracker – training sessions
- Capacity Tracker – user guide for care homes
- Capacity Tracker – user guide for quickly updating care home vacancies and business continuity information
- Care Act easements
- Care badges: order online
- Care Friends – the employee referral app for social care
- Care homes – broadband offer
- Care homes – discharge letter
- Care homes – CRC OOH stand down
- Care home guidance on managing the COVID-19 in care homes for older people
- Care Home Visit Guidance – September 2020
- Care homes visiting summary
- Care Provider Alliance – Vistors Protocol
- Care Sector Integrated Network
- Carers' Week, 7 to 13 June
- Carers who provide unpaid care to friends and family; government guidance
- Capacity Tracker bulletin – September 2021
- Capacity Tracker update
- Capacity Tracker changes – July 2021
- Capacity Tacker comms from DHSC
- Capacity Tracker – user guidance for care homes
- Capacity Tracker – short stay services help guide
- Care Workforce app
- Chief Nurse for ASC Awards Letter
- Christmas guidance for care homes
- Cleaning – steam cleaning in care homes
- Clinical Frailty Scale
- Clipper Service – PPE Portal
- Commissioning of New Homecare Framework Agreement
- Community guidance on managing COVID-19 symptoms
- Community testing policy paper
- Coronavirus Act 2020
- Cost of Care Review
- Council Accommodation Strategy
- COVID-19 – Beat the Heat Guidance
- COVID-19 booster vaccine information
- COVID-19 care home social care resources and advice (SCIE)
- COVID-19 – frequently asked questions about fertility and pregnancy
- COVID-19 – Management of staff and exposed patients or residents in health and social care settings
- COVID-19 response – Spring 2021
- COVID-19 support for care providers
- COVID-19 testing in adult social care
- COVID-19 – Vaccine Research Registry
- COVID-19 – Visits out of care homes
- CQC COVID-19 pandemic: information for providers
- CQC emergency support framework: what to expect
- CQC guidance on a statement of purpose
- CQC: how CQC regulates providers supporting autistic people and people with a learning disability
- CQC learning from safety incidents
- CQC new regulatory model
- CQC New Website Update
- CQC notification form for changes to your statement of purpose
- CQC – Right support, right care, right culture
- CQC State of Care Report
- CQC update for adult social care providers
- CQC updates for providers about COVID-19
- Creating a positive safeguarding culture
- Cyber security for care providers
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- Data security protection toolkit
- Day care and COVID-19: advice for social care
- Day care services social care resources and advice (SCIE)
- Day services: SCIE guidance
- Day services for adults with care and support needs advice about restarting
- DBS application information
- Delivering safe, face-to-face, adult day care
- Dementia in care homes and COVID-19
- Designated care settings letter from DHSC
- DHSC adult social care update
- Direct payments and personal assistants guidance
- Direct payments guidance during COVID-19
- Discharge into care homes: designated settings
- Discharge into care homes for people who have tested positive for COVID-19: clarification note
- Discounts for carers
- Discounts for carers – Blue Light Card
- Discounts for carers – Information on Food2care
- Domestic abuse support for victims during COVID-19
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- Enabling people living with dementia to lead research
- end of life care guidance for supporting compassionate visiting arrangements for those receiving care at the end of life
- end of life care – six steps to success in end of life care
- essential winter vaccines – a message from the Director of Public Health
- Ethical Framework for adult social care during COVID-19
- extending free PPE to the health and care sector consultation
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- Facebook group for managers
- FAQ – Provider data provisions
- Financial support for VCS organisations
- Finance – grant funding and conditions, March 2021
- Finance – Infection Control and Testing Fund
- Finance – Immigration Health Surcharge Reimbursement
- Finance – Test and trace support payment
- Finance – Workforce Capacity Grant
- Finance – Workforce Development Fund
- Flu immunisation and discharge guidance
- Flu – immunisation programme
- Flu vaccination video on experience of contracting 'flu
- Free PPE for frontline extended for another year
- Frequently asked questions – care homes
- Frequently asked questions – finance
- Frequently asked questions – home care
- Frequently asked questions – learning disability service
- Frequently asked questions – PPE
- Frequently asked questions – Workforce Support and Training
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- general ventilation and filtration info
- Government COVID-19 home page
- Guidance – Best Interest Decisions in relation to Common COVID-19 related scenarios
- Guidance – BLMK ICS CCG Medicines Optimisation Local Reuse of Medicines SOP policy v1
- Guidance – COVID-19 related topics Depatment of Health & Social Care
- Guidance – DoLs during the pandemic
- Guidance – dignity in care guidance
- Guidance – getting the most of a CQC Inspection
- Guidance – coping with heat and COVID-19
- Guidance – HR during COVID-19 recovery phase
- Guidance – supported living services during COVID-19
- Guidance – visiting care homes (letter from Director of Public Health)
- Gudiance – your COVID recovery
- Guidance – indoor visits (our supporting guidance)
- Guidance – visiting in care homes (government guidance)
- Guidance – rule of six exemption (government guidance)
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- Have your say on the COVID-19 Newsletter and Information Hub
- Health, adult social care and ageing bulletin
- Healthwatch Just Ask 2021 programme of activity
- Home care COVID-19 government guidance
- Home care social care resources and advice (SCIE)
- Homely remedies toolkit and first dressing scheme guidance for use in nursing homes
- Hospital discharge to care homes clarification note
- Hospital discharge to care homes guidance
- Hospital out patient appointments
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- Important changes to Capacity Tracker
- Important DHSC Communication to All Capacity Tracker Users
- Infection control: deep cleaning of care homes after outbreak
- Infection control for care providers advice from SCIE
- Infection Control Fund Guidelines
- Infection Control Grant Return Homecare
- Infection Control Grant Return Homecare
- Infection Control Grant Return Care Homes
- Infection Control Grant Return Care Homes
- Infection Control Grant Return Homecare – email narrative
- Infection Control Grant Return Care Homes – email narrative
- Infection control grant, round 2 guidance
- Infection control – how to reduce the risk of spread of COVID-19 through uniform or PPE
- Infection control – use of electric fans
- Infection prevention and control government guidance
- Infection prevention and control in care homes webinar
- Infection prevention and control resource list
- Infection prevention control training for care homes
- Infection prevention control training for home carers
- Information regarding heart failure
- Integration – Health and care white paper
- Internet offers for care homes connected during COVID-19
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- leadership and management: skills for care
- learning disabilities; being infected by COVID-19
- learning disabilities – COVID-19: supporting adults with learning disabiities and autistic adults during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak
- learning disability housing opportunities and blockages: report by Housing Lin
- learning disability services guidance for front line staff to support management of patients
- Learning disability services advice for supporting autistic people and people with learning disabilities during COVID-19
- letter from DHSC Sir David Pearson
- letter from the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (PDF)
- Letter to providers from DHSC
- L&D newsletter
- local government bulletin
- Local Government and Social Care Ombusdman update
- Local Outbreak Plan
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- Medication – find a local pharmacy with palliative care medicines
- Medication – government guidance on the reuse of medicines in care homes or hospices
- Medication – Medication and Falls Risk
- Meetings – how to join a virtual meeting hoseted by Central Bedfordshire Council
- Mental Capacity Act (MCA) and the COVID-19 crisis
- Mental Capacity Act (MCA) and COVID-19 testing
- Mortality – government guidance on informing DHSC of the death of a worker in social care
- Mortality- goverment guidance on verifying COVID-19 deaths
- Mortality – notifying the LeDer programme of death
- Music for Dementia
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- National Data Opt-out – COVID-19 response – Further extension to 31 July 2022
- National Early Warning Score (NEWS2) – reimbursement of the cost of kit
- Newsletters
- NHS COVID-19 home page
- NHSmail updates
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- Parking permits for NHS and social care staff
- PHE COVID-19 webinar
- PM statement at coronavirus press conference: 5 July 2021
- Power Point from Care Homes – Restrictions in care homes during an outbreak, consent, and care planning
- PPE – care home guidance for putting on and taking off PPE
- PPE – Department of Health and Social Care strategy
- PPE – different types of face masks
- PPE – face covering exemption cards
- PPE – government guidance on how to work safely in care homes
- PPE – government guidance COVID-19 guidance on how to work safely in Home Care
- PPE – how to order COVID-19 personal protective equipment
- PPE – illustrated guide for community health and social care settings
- PPE – infection preventions and control precautions
- PPE – list of suppliers
- PPE – managing shortages
- PPE portal: how to order COVID-19 personal protective equipment (PPE)
- PPE – Public Health England guide to donning and doffing standard PPE-poster
- PPE – recommended PPE for primary, outpatient, community
- PPE – resource for for care workers, working in care homes
- PPE – Supply chain and escalation process
- PPE – use of face coverings
- PPE – use of face coverings on public transport
- PPE – what to wear video
- PPE portal: how to order COVID-19 personal protective equipment (PPE)
- Proposal for mandatory COVID certification in a Plan B scenario: call for evidence
- priority access to COVID-19 booster
- Priority treatment tests for residents in the highest risk group – care homes
- Proxy Access – Proxy Access for Care Homes
- Proxy Access – Proxy Access Set up Guide for Care Homes with SystemOne GP
- Pulse Oximetery NHS guidance
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- Recruitment – DWP material
- Recruitment – how to list vacancies on DWP
- Recruitment – Join Social Care
- Recruitment of health and care staff
- Recovery strategy – the government's plan to rebuild
- Reporting to the enhanced surveillance of COVID-19 cases in vaccinated individuals
- Revised mutual aid for care homes template
- Revoking vaccination as a condition of deployment across all health and social care: consultation response
- Risk Reduction Framework
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- Safeguarding adults during the COVID-19 crisis
- SCIELine Newsletter
- SCIELine: Social care newsletter
- Shielding guidance from the government
- Significant Care tool
- Skills for Care advice line
- Skills for care Webinars
- Skills for Care Workforce Wellbeing Bulletin May and June
- Skills Workshop: Compassionate Communities
- Staff mutual aid induction checklist for NHS staff
- Staff mutual aid offer to care homes
- Staff mutual aid presentation
- Statutory sick pay: check if you can claim back sick pay paid to employees due to coronavirus
- Suicide awareness and response training
- Summary of Care Home Visiting Guidance
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- Technology – care home NHS iPad offer
- Test and Trace – what to do if you receive a call, text or email from NHS Test and Trace
- Testing for care home workers
- Testing – allocation of COVID-19 swab tests
- Testing – announcement for adult day care centres in England
- Testing – book a test if you have a Luton postcode
- Testing – care home testing factsheet for whole-home testing
- Testing – Coronavirus (COVID-19) testing: privacy information
- Testing – COVID self test help
- Testing – COVID-19 testing for adult day centre workers
- Testing – COVID-19 testing for extra care and supported living settings
- Testing – COVID-19 testing in a suspected or confirmed outbreak in care homes
- Testing – CQC regulating activity
- Testing – eligibility for regular testing in care homes
- Testing – for adult social care settings
- Testing – for home care workers
- Testing – government guidance on getting a COVID-19 test
- Testing – government guidance on how to apply for a COVID-19 test for essential workers
- Testing – government guidance on how to apply for a COVID-19 test for care homes
- Testing – how tests and testing kits for coronavirus (COVID-19) work
- Testing – key worker COVID-19 drive-through testing at Stepplingley Hospital
- Testing – Lateral flow device validation
- Testing – National Programme Organisational Registration Portal
- Testing – Lateral Flow Testing of care home visitors
- Testing – Lateral Flow Testing letter to care home visitors
- Testing – order a test
- Testing – Randox test kits
- Testing – rapid Lateral Flow testing guidance
- Testing – rapid testing in adult social care settings
- Testing – rapid testing sites in Central Bedfordshire
- Testing – report a COVID-19 test result
- Testing – non-Randox test kits
- Testing – re-testing in care homes
- Testing – self-test for staff, service users and visitors in adult social care settings: privacy notice
- Testing – training on LFT Testing
- Testing and isolation period
- Testing and tracing video
- Text for employer letter for phase 3 ‘booster’ vaccination
- The BLMK Care Conference 2022 – Newsletter
- Tour De East of England
- Training – CBC Adult Social Care training page
- Training – CBC E-learning programme brochure
- Training – measuring oxygen saturation
- Training – opportunities available to the adult social care sector
- Training – psychological first aid training
- Training – Skills for Care essential training information
- Training – Supporting People Living with Dysphagia
- Training – swallow awareness
- Travel – getting to and from work video
- Travel – travel information and exemption list
- Travel – quarantine changes (government press release)
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- Update from GOV.UK – Face coverings: when to wear one, exemptions, and how to make one
- Update from GOV.UK – COVID-19 variants identified in the UK
- Updated guidance for care homes
- Updated Guidance - management of staff and exposed patients and residents
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- Vaccination – COVID-19 care homes' communications pack
- Vaccination – COVID-19 care homes' outbreaks and vaccination guidance
- Vaccination – COVID-19 care homes' vaccine mobilisation pack (PDF)
- Vaccination – COVID-19 consent forms
- Vaccination – COVID-19 consent forms and letters for care home residents
- Vaccination – COVID-19 easy read resources
- Vaccination – COVID-19 pregnancy and women who are breast feeding
- Vaccination – COVID-19 standard operating procedure for community vaccinations
- Vaccination – COVID-19 vaccination and mental capacity
- Vaccination – COVID-19 vaccination guide for social care staff
- Vaccination – COVID-19 vaccination in people with learning disabilities
- Vaccination – COVID-19 vaccination letter to frontline health and social care workers
- Vaccination – COVID-19 vaccination of Social Care Workers next stage letter
- Vaccination – COVID-19 vaccination posters
- Vaccination – COVID-19 vaccination pri