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Hear from people about their experiences of delegated healthcare activities. 

Blog: Delegated healthcare: the journey continues

Read a joint blog from Professor Oonagh Smyth, CEO Skills for Care and Deborah Sturdy, Chief Nurse Adult Social Care in the Department of Health and Social Care. They reflect on the continued importance of delegated healthcare activities and tell us about changes made to the guiding principles following an evaluation into how they are being used.

Read the blog

 

Registered manager webinar: Delegated healthcare activities

Watch our webinar for social care managers for an introduction to the voluntary guiding principles for delegated healthcare activities and supporting resources. You'll find out from Skills for Care and those using the principles about practical ways for you to apply them within your service.

Duration 57 mins 36 secs

 

Rob Moriarty shares his story about delegation of healthcare activity to the personal assistants he employs.

Duration 4 mins 56 secs

 

Hear from some of the people involved in the Tameside Blended Roles project and their approach to closer collaboration between care providers and the local neighbourhood teams.

Duration 10 mins 46secs

 

St Martin’s Care in Northumberland are working together with the North East Ambulance Service and Ageing Well to train care workers in the use of the lifting cushions to improve non-injured fall outcomes. Hear their story so far. 

Duration 5 mins 35 secs

 

Lincolnshire Care Association and Lincolnshire ICB have been working together to develop safe operating procedures for a telehealth monitoring kit, a digital solution to improve outcomes for those accessing care and support in residential homes. Here’s their story filmed in Ashdene Care Home, Sleaford. 

Melanie Weatherley MBE, Chair of Lincolnshire Care Association, has also written a blog sharing her experience.

Duration 6 mins 6 secs

 

Watch this video to hear from Dr. Suzanne Glover who receives direct payments to manage her own care. She shares her experiences of delegated healthcare activities, including first response chest physio and speech and language therapy.

Duration 4 mins 44 secs

 

Leeds system approach to support delegated healthcare

Learn about a system wide approach to support delegated healthcare activities. This webinar and video case studies from Leeds City Council describe their health and wellbeing pilot project. 

Duration 55 mins 12 secs

 

Case study: Phase 1 of the project

Duration 5 mins 26 secs

 

Case study: Project benefits

Duration 2 mins 31 secs

 

Case study: Project next steps

Duration 5 mins 19 secs

 

 

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Sirona care and health CIC is a not-for-profit social enterprise commissioned by the NHS and local authorities. In this case study the tell us about their insulin delegation pilot.
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Vitality Home Health offer home care in the Sevenoaks and Gravesham area of Kent. Here they share their experiences of upskilling staff around delegated healthcare acitivites to meet changing care needs.

 

Delegated healthcare activities from the perspective of individual employers and PAs

Watch our series of videos that demonstrate how delegated healthcare activities can be implemented safely and effectively by individual employers and the personal assistants that they employ. The videos are split across the four guiding principles for delegated healthcare activities, showing best practice and advice in each area.

Duration 4 mins 9 secs

 

Duration 3 mins 59 secs

 

Duration 4 mins 13 secs

 

Duration 3 mins 58 secs