Person Centred Software

Person Centred Software are opening up their Relatives Gateway platform to all UK care homes FREE of charge to help you maintain communication with families during these unprecedented times.

Relatives Gateway allows secure messages and photos to be shared between care home residents and their families, it will also give carers an efficient way to provide wellbeing updates to concerned loved ones.

Professor Martin Green OBE, Chief Executive of Care England, commended the initiative by saying: “This will help Care Homes maintain isolation, but at the same time, enable people to keep in contact with relatives, friends and loved ones.”

Jonathan Papworth, founder and director of Person Centred Software says this could be a vital lifeline. To watch his short video and find out more about how you can get Relatives Gateway for FREE for your care home visit www.personcentredsoftware.com/covid19response

Following on from the overwhelming response, and 50% increase in usage of Relatives Gateway, we have now upgraded our Relatives Gateway platform with video calling to keep residents connected with their loved ones during the COVID-19 outbreak.

 

Developing our product in response to the coronavirus pandemic

Our product development team has worked really quickly to add new features into our digital care system to support care homes through this pandemic.
These features include:

  • Coronavirus Action Icon
    The ability to record symptoms from the Care App
  • Additional Precautions Required
    When a resident has been flagged with an infectious disease an icon appears on their profile showing carers that additional precautions are required
  • Staff Coronavirus Audit
    A form to record symptoms and show working status
  • Coronavirus Reporting
    Shows the organisation a summary of staff and residents and their coronavirus status

Andrew Coles, Head of Product Management, explains more about these new Mobile Care Monitoring features in a video on our website.

If you would like an online demo of Mobile Care Monitoring to help you through these unprecedented times, contact us on 01483 357657 or [email protected]

Brakes Scotland

Brakes has committed to Scotland for over 60 years, employing nearly 600 local people and partnering with over 100 Scottish suppliers. The customer base is far reaching from public schools and the NHS to independent restaurants, hotels and coffee shops in total, we service more than 8,000 customers across the nation.  During these unprecedented times, we would like to help our friends within retail to feed the nation.

Operating from four sites across Scotland in Inverness, Oban, Dundee and Newhouse, Motherwell.

We know that many of our customers are going to be working incredibly hard over the next few months caring for and supporting vulnerable people and our communities. We want to support our customers, taking away some of the stress for their staff of accessing critical food supplies for them and their families.

We have set up a staff account process which will enable large businesses across our existing customer base to purchase products direct from Brakes at great prices, without leaving their workplace. Each site will be able to consolidate an order from all their staff, for delivery on their next available delivery day.

Contact details:

Karyn MacKay – Area Sales Manager, 07484 097058

https://www.brake.co.uk/become-a-customer-eligible

Minimum order £100

Brakes Covid Care

Updates

Brakes also offer a new service ‘ The Call Collect’ which is aimed mainly at social care staff. This way carers will not have to stand in queues in supermarkets, they can just collect and stay in their car.

Call_Collect- For staff

Brakes have got a new brochure aimed at care homes to say we are here to help and we will deliver  with the upmost care and precaution taking on every delivery. Open an account today – Delivered tomorrow.

BRA3034 A4 Care Brochure 2019

Letter from Cabinet Secretary & COSLA on key workers during Covid-19

Scottish Care has received the following letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport, Ms Jeane Freeman and COSLA’s Health and Social Care spokesperson Cllr Stuart Currie.

This letter was issued yesterday to chief officers, chief finance officers, chief social work officers and LA chief executives. This letter details information on the definition and status of key workers, as well as providing background and links to useful guidance.

Cabinet Secretary and Cllr Currie letter - social care key workers - 30 March 2020

Scottish Government: Covid-19 guidance for social care

The Scottish Government has issued separate clinical guidance, one for nursing home and residential care residents, and one for the management of clients accessing care at home, housing support and sheltered housing.

Care homes

This guidance provides clinical advice on COVID-19 to support those working with adults in long term care such as residents of nursing home and residential care settings.

Find out more by clicking here.

Care at home & housing support

This guidance is aimed at local authorities, Health and Social Care Partnerships (HSCPs) and registered providers, who support and deliver care and support to people in their own homes to support measures to prevent and prepare for infection in people receiving care at home or housing support.

Find out more by clicking here.

CMO/CNO/CSWA letter on social care settings

Please click the button below to access the letter from the Chief Medical Officer, Chief Nursing Officer and Chief Social Work Advisor about Covid-19 clinical guidance for social care settings.

Palliative Care

RCN webinars for care homes

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COVID-19: Effective communication for professionals (RED-MAP resources)

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PEOLC & Thinking Ahead using a Person Centred Approach to ACP Webinar – 21 May

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Caring for people who are dying & those close to them amidst Covid-19 visiting restrictions

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Palliative Care Toolkit

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New Covid-19 palliative care guidance – 3 April

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ACP for Covid-19

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Visual infographics for Health & Care Professionals about Care Homes

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Disclosure Scotland helpline update – 27 March

Unfortunately due to the impact the COVID-19 situation has had on the business and the high volume of priority applications for critical sectors, we made the decision to temporarily close the helplines in order to maximize the number of staff processing applications.

You can prioritise any critical role applications already submitted by emailing the details, including barcode & ‘role applied for’ to our COVID Priority mailbox; [email protected]. NB General enquiries and application updates will not be handled via this channel.

Any other enquiries can be sent our normal enquiry mailbox; [email protected].”

Whilst we anticipate this situation temporary it is the channel we are signposting customers to at this time. We thank our customers for their patience during this on-going difficult situation.

Regards

Jillian [Customer Engagement Manager]

Disclosure Scotland Covid-19 Updates