ANNIE GUNNER LOGAN

We are thrilled to have Annie Gunner Logan as our afternoon Chair for the Scottish Care : Care Home Conference this year.

Annie Gunner Logan is the Director of CCPS – the Coalition of Care and Support Providers in Scotland – the national membership body for voluntary and not-for-profit care providers.

Annie began her career in Scotland’s public and voluntary sectors with a Community Programme placement at SAMH (Scottish Association for Mental Health) in 1988, and subsequently held posts in policy, information and public affairs at Children in Scotland and the Health Education Board for Scotland (now NHS Health Scotland).

On behalf of CCPS, Annie serves on a number of Scottish Government advisory and reference groups, including the Health and Community Care Delivery Group and the advisory groups for legislation on Self Directed Support and Health and Social Care Integration. In 2013 she was appointed by the Deputy First Minister to serve on the Expert Working Group on Welfare in an Independent Scotland.

Annie has served as a non-executive member on a range of public and voluntary sector boards, including the UK drug and alcohol treatment charity, Phoenix Futures, where she was Vice Chair, and the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR). In January 2014 she was appointed as a Non-Executive Director of the Scottish Government.

Annie has a Masters Degree in Social and Public Policy from the University of Edinburgh.

We are delighted that the morning session of the conference will be chaired by Lord Sutherland.

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Leadership for Integration : You as a Collaborative Leader

NHS Education for Scotland (NES), the Royal College of General Practitioners Scotland (RCGP Scotland) and the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) are inviting expressions of interest in participating in cohorts 3 or 4 of theLeadership for Integration programme – You as a Collaborative Leader – which is scheduled to begin in January and February 2017 respectively.

The programme is a fully funded– no fees are payable by participants or their organisations.

The programme is aimed at primary care and social care professionals including GPs, senior primary care professionals, and middle or senior managers in statutory, third or independent social care organisations. Participants should already be working in lead roles within localities or health and social care partnerships to shape, develop and deliver integrated care.

The You as a Collaborative Leader strand of the programme is aimed at supporting individuals to recognise their own leadership strengths and sources of resilience so to enable participants to lead more collaboratively and effectively in delivering integrated care.

The programme is completed over a period of approximately four months and involves:

· three 1:1 coaching sessions (one at the start, middle and end of the programme)
· a 360-degree assessment and feedback exercise on your leadership capability
· two full-day workshops focusing on leadership capabilities for health and social care integration. There will be some content on the vision for integrated care, and on people, contexts and systems that impact on leadership actions. You will be encouraged to build on what you learn about yourself and your leadership capability to explore how you can lead change more effectively and collaboratively in your locality
· a tailored personal development plan to help you sustain your learning in practice.

To apply for a place on You as a Collaborative Leader please complete the form found here before the 28th November 2016. More detailed information on You as a Collaborative Leader is available on our webpages. For more information contact [email protected] with any queries you have.

Award winning film maker Duncan Cowles spoke on BBC Radio Scotland this morning about his Directed by North Merchiston project which involved a series of films featuring the residents of North Merchiston Care Home in Edinburgh.

Commissioned by Scottish Care as part of the Luminate Festival, the films are an honest, engaging and entertaining depiction of the residents living at North Merchiston and offer a unique perspective as to living in a care home.

Directed by North Merchiston will premiere within North Merchiston itself tomorrow evening Wednesday 26th October with it’s public premiere taking place at the Scottish Care Annual Care Home Conference on Friday 18th November at the Hilton Hotel in Glasgow.

Listen to Duncan speaking on BBC Radio Scotland here (approximately  01:19:49)

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07z38h9

Watch some preview clips from Directed by North Merchiston here…

Find out more about Duncan here

www.duncancowles.com

An update regarding the redevelopment of the National Care Standards.

Insight Session:Infection Prevention is My Business

Facilitator : Healthcare Associated Infections & Infection Control (NHS Education for Scotland)

Infection Prevention and Control is considered everybody’s business.

However, if it’s everybody’s business, then it’s definitely somebody’s business, and anybody can do it so why sometimes does it feel like it’s nobody’s business. NHS Education for Scotland (NES) with support from the Scottish Government developed an education DVD on all you need to know on preventing and controlling infection in all care settings including care homes, home environments, adult residential and care services.

To support the implementation of the DVD/CD-Rom in Care Homes, NES organised “train the trainer” programmes with over 60 representatives from care homes throughout Scotland. This workshop will explore how NES can support your care home in preventing infection, it will also provide the opportunity to shared good practice and discuss how to embed infection prevention as your business.