From: HEGARTY, Sharron (NHS VALE OF YORK CCG)
Sent: 20 March 2020 15:21
To: HEGARTY, Sharron (NHS VALE OF YORK CCG)
Subject: Primary Care COVID-19 update - 20 March 2020
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Importance: High
This information has been sent to all
colleagues in primary care and all CCG staff.
COVID-19 update
20 March 2020
In this edition
COVID-19 and children ***further advice***
Hotel accommodation for NHS staff
Safeguarding in
Primary Care - Covid19
Supporting allied
health professionals and allied health professional support workers during the
COVID-19 epidemic in the UK
Coronavirus information - accessible formats
Adult Drug and Alcohol Recovery Service in North Yorkshire
The Coronavirus Bill – a summary
Useful resources
COVID-19 and
children ***further advice***
To
supplement the information provided in yesterday’s COVID-update please note
that:
Triaging staff must be familiar
with NICE paediatric sepsis pathways. These are available at https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng51/resources/algorithm-for-managing-suspected-sepsis-in-children-aged-under-5-years-outside-an-acute-hospital-setting-91853485524
§ Infants
< 3 months with a fever >38 need a full septic screen, IV
antibiotics and must be referred to Paediatrics.
§ Clinical observations (temperature, fever and
respiratory rate) are a key part of assessing a potentially unwell child
Hotel
accommodation for NHS staff
New hotel
booking guidance for staff working on COVID-19
outbreak is attached.
Safeguarding in
Primary Care - Covid19
The health and welfare of our most vulnerable children, families
and adults continues to be a key priority for us all. We all recognise
that enforced isolation goes along with some particular increased risks in
terms of issues such as domestic abuse, caring for children or adults with care
and support needs, managing family budgets and meals, and accessing support.
As far as possible, safeguarding business should continue as
usual, including making safeguarding referrals/alerts as necessary. However, it
is anticipated that response services will come under significant pressure. The
Safeguarding Team from North Yorkshire and York CCGs want to further support
primary care colleagues in these challenging times and to that end, we are
proposing to extend the offer of telephone advice and support.
All safeguarding adult and children team members will be available
as usual during working hours. Additionally, the following staff are able to
provide extended access to safeguarding advice and support from 8am – 6.30pm
Monday to Friday.
|
Team Member |
Safeguarding Area |
Contact number |
|
Janette Griffiths |
Primary Care (Adults and Children) |
07909 686821 |
|
Karen Hedgley |
Safeguarding Children |
07946 337290 |
|
Elaine Wyllie |
Safeguarding Children |
07917 800793 |
|
Christine Pearson |
Safeguarding Adults |
07872 694747 |
Further
information will be cascaded by the NHS Covid19 Safeguarding Group once it is
available.
Supporting allied health professionals and allied health professional
support workers
Please find attached a letter from the national
team (issued on the 19 March 2020) on supporting AHPs and AHP support workers
during the COVID-19 epidemic.
Coronavirus information - accessible formats
The following accessible formats of
advice are attached for you to display in practices and use on social media:
§ Posters
§ BSL
videos
§ Audio
file - this could be added to existing voicemail messages.
If you have any problems using these
materials please contact the Communications Team at voyccg.communications@nhs.net
For practices in the North Yorkshire County Council area – North
Yorkshire Horizons Adult Drug and Alcohol Recovery Service
North Yorkshire Horizons remains
open, continues to accept referrals and deliver services to those requiring
support. It is open from 9am to 8pm Monday to Friday via the Single Point of
Contact telephone lines: 01723 330 730 for professionals and 08000 141 480 for
service users
It is currently contacting all GP surgeries whereby it would
ordinarily offer a Shared Care provision to discuss individual
contingency management plans. We will continue to work with patients accessing
this service via telephone appointments. The needle exchange and Naloxone
service also continues.
It
has postponed all group activities and group work
until further notice. Service users that would ordinarily attend these groups
will be offered ongoing support via telephone appointment. For more updates go
to https://www.nyhorizons.org.uk/
The Coronavirus Bill – a summary
Below is a summary of the
health-related provisions in the Coronavirus Bill that was passed on the 19
March 2020.
Emergency
registration of health professionals
On notification from the Secretary of
State of an emergency, Registrars of the NMC and HCPC will be able to
temporarily register fit, proper and suitably experienced persons with regard
to an emergency, as regulated healthcare professionals.
Temporary
registration of social workers
Introduces emergency registration
powers for the Registrar of Social Work England (SWE) and the Registrar of
Social Care Wales (SCW). The registrars of SWE and SCW will be able to
temporarily register fit, proper and suitably experienced persons with regard
to an emergency, as social workers.
Emergency
volunteers
Bill introduces a new form of unpaid
statutory leave, and powers to establish a compensation scheme to compensate
for some loss of earnings and expenses incurred by volunteers.
Mental health and
mental capacity
§ amendments
allow certain functions relating to the detention and treatment of patients to
be satisfied by fewer doctors’ opinions or certifications. Temporary amendments
also allow for the extension or removal of certain time limits relating to the
detention and transfer of patients.
§ reduce
the number of doctors’ opinions required and modify time limits for detention
and movement between court, prison and hospital. This will enable them to be
admitted to hospital for treatment where there might otherwise be delay owing
to shortage of qualified staff in a pandemic.
Health service
indemnification
powers to provide indemnity coverage
for clinical negligence of health care workers and others carrying out NHS and
Health and Social Care (HSC) activities connected to care, treatment or
diagnostic services provided under the arrangements for responding to the
covid-19 pandemic.
NHS and local
authority care and support
§ Currently,
patients with social care needs go through a number of stages before they are
discharged from hospital. For some patients, one of these stages is an NHS
Continuing Healthcare (NHS CHC) Assessment a process that can take a number of
weeks. The Bill will allow the procedure for discharge from an acute
hospital setting for those with a social care need to be simplified.
§ Power
for Local Authority, if they have not charged an individual for their care
during the covid-19 pandemic, they are able to do so retrospectively after the
conclusion of this period subject to financial assessment.
Registration of
deaths and still-births etc.
§ Bill
will simplify death certificate process and provide more flexibility in an
emergency situation by enabling a doctor who may not have seen the deceased to
certify the cause of death without the death being referred to the coroner.
§ Bill
will allow a family member or person who knew deceased to register without
attending the register office and will also extend the list of those people who
can give the relevant information to the registrar to register the death to
funeral directors.
Useful resources
§ The CCG publishes public
facing information on its website and social media channels. The web link is https://www.valeofyorkccg.nhs.uk/coronavirus-covid-19-information/
§ The link to the CCG’s
clinical updates is available on RSS at https://www.valeofyorkccg.nhs.uk/rss/home/infections-and-microbiology/covid-19/
§ The RCGP website has links
to useful resources: https://www.rcgp.org.uk/policy/rcgp-policy-areas/covid-19-coronavirus.aspx
§ Mencap - Easy Read guide to
Coronavirus: https://www.mencap.org.uk/sites/default/files/2020-03/Information%20about%20Coronavirus%20ER%20SS2.pdf
§ Carers UK - Guidance for carers: https://www.carersuk.org/help-and-advice/health/looking-after-your-health/coronavirus-covid-19
§ BACP guidance around managing anxiety
- https://www.bacp.co.uk/news/news-from-bacp/2020/28-february-coronavirus-anxiety-how-to-cope-if-you-re-feeling-anxious-about-the-outbreak/
Thank
you
Sharron Hegarty
Head
of Communications and Media Relations
Phone
01904 555 919 email sharron.hegarty@nhs.net
NHS
Vale of York Clinical Commissioning Group, West Offices, Station Rise, York,
YO1 6GA
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