Enhanced Health in Care Homes London Winter Readiness Webinar 1 – 16th September 2019

A collective approach to planning for winter The London Enhanced Health in Care Homes (EHCH) programme team have been working together with Sustainable Transformation Partnership (STP) teams, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) and Local Authorities (LA) to support care providers across London. The London network provides information and resources to help facilitate a winter planning partnership between social care and health care providers; with the aim to deliver collective system wide resilience for London. Following this session (webinar 1) we will be sharing a summary pack which we encourage teams to use to compliment existing resources; extracting information you feel is most valuable for your care providers locally. To help raise awareness of the resources available we have planned 4 commissioner focused webinars and a single provider webinar – all these resources will be recorded and available to access via the Healthy London Partnership website: Enhanced Health in Care Homes Programme

What will we cover during today’s webinar? EHCH Winter Readiness Commissioning of Flu vaccinations for 19/20 London approach to accessing free flu vaccinations for social care workers Resources to support this years flu campaign An opportunity to share your approach, discuss your challenges and highlight any further topics that we may not have covered

Enhanced Health in Care Homes Winter Readiness An overview of this years Flu Campaign and Vaccinations for Social Care Workers

EHCH Winter Readiness Review of 18/19 approach with regional colleagues across NHS E and PHE Refresh of EHCH resources based on national influenza campaign Support local areas with resources and material to enable local campaigns

Winter Readiness Webinars 19/20 Dates Topics to be covered  Webinar 1 16th September 2019 13:30pm- 14:15pm  Flu Campaign and vaccination approach for London  Webinar 2 14th October 2019  NHS 111 *6 (Starlines) Promotion and campaigning for NHS 111 *6 Guidance information on how to use the service Progress with Star Line Evaluation recommendations  Webinar 3 11th November 2019  Managing winter illness Flu Standard Operating Procedure (SoP) for Care Homes- supporting a system wide response to a Flu outbreak Managing D&V in a care home setting Webinar 4 9th December 2019  Winter Readiness Recap Review webinars 1 to 3 Updates from each STP area i.e. Flu Campaign, Vaccination uptake, share learning/ solutions

Commissioning of Flu Vaccinations 19/20

Who can receive FREE Flu vaccinations? All Health & Social Care staff, employed by a registered residential care/nursing home or registered domiciliary care provider, who are directly involved in the care of vulnerable patients/clients who are at increased risk from exposure to influenza. Vulnerable means those patients/clients in a clinical risk group for flu or who are aged 65 years and over 2019/20 service specification for seasonal flu

Free Flu Vaccinations for Social Care Workers – plans for London

How teams can access the vaccinations Your local social care providers can access free flu vaccinations by one of two means Option 1 Vaccinations can be provided in community pharmacies social care workers just need to take ID into a pharmacy offering vaccinations for information on the nearest pharmacy visit www.londonflu.co.uk Option 2 Vaccination pop up clinics can be arranged at care homes for >10 staff– for more information or to book your vaccinations visit www.londonflu.co.uk

Collecting data – it’s still a challenge at a local level We would love to be able to say that we have cracked the data challenges for this year but this is still something that NHS England's (London) Immunisation team are working hard to collect and share. Locally collected data will enable you to feel confident that your care homes are preparing for preventing flu this year. Recording this data will help recognise local uptake across London. Following the success in NHSE North Region, we will be adopting their approach where care providers self report and inform commissioners when they have achieved 85% compliance of staff flu vaccinations. Providers who reach 85% will be rewarded with a certificate and letter thanking them for being part of London’s partners in preventing flu. Posters will be available to promote this as part of the campaign (to follow).

Flu campaign – Resources

Enhanced Health in Care Homes Website The Enhanced Health in Care Homes website has a dedicated page to support you in preparation for winter - Winter Readiness Here you will find some of the following resources…

CarePulse – Explore key resources The resource centre hosts supportive information and guidance for care homes to access. www.carepulse.co.uk

Other resources – what do you have locally? How to access and share resources across London and nationally… We recommend you join the Kahootz / NHSFutures collaboration platform, EHCH network… Commissioners can register by emailing… england.carehomes@nhs.net

Sharing good practice and questions – this is where we want to hear from you!

Working together across London - sharing good practice

Full web links… Slide 2 & 13 https://www.healthylondon.org/resource/accelerated-improvement- resources/enhanced-health-in-care-homes/winter-readiness/winter-readiness-2/ Slide 8 https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/19-20-service-specification- for-seasonal-flu.pdf Slide 15 https://future.nhs.uk/connect.ti/system/home

Thank you for joining! If you have any further questions please don’t hesitate to contact the team hlp.ehchprogramme@nhs.net