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Quick guide: Good practice in safeguarding training
- Authors:
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE, SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2021
- Pagination:
- 4
- Place of publication:
- London
Safeguarding adults in care homes means protecting their right to live in safety and acting to prevent abuse and neglect whilst taking into account each person’s views, wishes, feelings and beliefs. Training is one way of making sure this happens. This quick guide, aimed at registered managers of care homes, explains what to cover in training and how to deliver it, including how to evaluate training in a care home. (Edited publisher abstract)
Working together to achieve person-centred home care: report of a roundtable discussion in Manchester
- Author:
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 18
- Place of publication:
- London
Reports on the results of a roundtable event to discuss how the NICE guideline 'Home care: delivering personal care and practical support to older people living in their own homes' can help to improve the experiences and outcomes of people who use home care services. The event was organisation by the NICE Collaborating Centre for Social Care and attended by 15 participants, including people who used home care, carers, providers, and commissioners. Areas discussed included the guidelines that would be the easiest or most important to implement, and what might help and what would get in the way of them implementing the guideline. The top three themes identified were: Recruiting, training and supporting home are workers; Ensuring care is person centred; and joint working between health and social care. The report also includes advice on holding a local roundtable event. (Edited publisher abstract)
Transition between inpatient hospital settings and community or care home settings for adults with social care needs: NG27
- Author:
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Place of publication:
- London
Guideline providing good practice advice on transfer from hospital settings and community or care homes for adults with social care needs. The guideline aims to improve people's experience of admission to, and discharge from, hospital by better coordination of health and social care services. It provides recommendations on the overarching principles of person-centred care, communication and information sharing. Recommendations also cover: before admission to hospital, admission to hospital, during hospital stay, discharge from hospital, supporting the infrastructure and training and development. Specific recommendations highlight: the importance of care planning before admission to hospital; using a hospital-based multi-disciplinary team to support admission to hospital; regularly reviewing and updating the person’s progress towards discharge during their hospital stay; the role of the discharge coordinator in planning discharge from hospital; ensuring that local community health, social care and voluntary sector services are available to support people when they are discharged from hospital; and training and development for people involved in the hospital discharge process. The guidelines are especially relevant for commissioners of hospital, care home and home care services. (Edited publisher abstract)
Occupational therapy and physical activity interventions to promote the mental health wellbeing of older people in primary care and residential care: evidence update March 2015
- Author:
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 20
- Place of publication:
- London
Summarises selected new evidence published since the original literature search was conducted for the NICE guidance 16 Occupational therapy and physical activity interventions to promote the mental health wellbeing of older people in primary care and residential care (2008). A search was conducted for new evidence from 1 June 2011 to 28 July 2014 and a total of 8,973 pieces of evidence were initially identified. The 21 most relevant references underwent a critical appraisal process and then were reviewed by an Evidence Update Advisory Group, which advised on the final list of 6 items selected for the Evidence Update. The update provides detailed commentaries on the new evidence focussing on the following themes: occupational interventions, physical activity, walking schemes, and training. It also highlights evidence uncertainties identified.