COVID-19 information and guidance for health and social care professionals
Please note: For more information to share with your service users, see our Coronavirus (COVID-19): Health advice page.
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Action Plan for adult social care | DHSC:
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Activity Coordinators | NCL CCG and Haringey Council
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Admissions | GOV.UK: | |||
Advance care planning | Govdelivery.com:
Gold Standards Framework: | |||
Autism and Adults with Learning Disabilities | DHSC:
Bindmans: | |||
Bereavement Support | NHS: | |||
Capacity Tracker | NHS:
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Caring for someone who is dying | Hospice UK: North London Hospice: NHS London: NHS: | |||
Care of the deceased | Public Health England:
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Care provision | North London Partnership (NLP):
NCF:
Haringey CCG: | |||
Care Act easement: LA’s | Department of Health and Social Care:
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Care Home settings | British Geriatrics Society - 14 April 2020:
NHS Futures:
NHS London - 16 April 2020: GOV.UK:
Public Health: Haringey Council
NHS England and NHS Improvement:
NCL CCG:
Department Of Health and Social care
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Care Home Support | North Middlesex Hospital - information for Haringey care homes. Contact information and sources of help for medical issues during COVID-19:
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Support plan for care providers | Haringey Council: | |||
Clinicians and NHS managers | NHS England:
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Connected Communities Service | Haringey Council:
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Coronavirus Act 2020 | Legislation.gov.uk: | |||
Cleaning of Non-Healthcare settings | Public Health England
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CQC | CQC:
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Domiciliary Care | GOV.UK:
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Death of a Worker | DHSE: | |||
Dementia | Clinical Leadership Group: | |||
Direct Payments | DHSE | |||
DoLs, MCA, Best Interest | Shropshire DoLs team:
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Frailty | NHS England:
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Hand Hygiene | World Health Organisation:
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Hospital discharge guide for residential settings | NCL:
NHS
Integration and Better Care Fund
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Infection prevention and control in healthcare settings | Public Health England NHS England NCL CCG - 20 May 2020: Dedicated email address and phone number, directing you to published advice and guidance regarding Infection Prevention and Control (IPC):
Care home telephone support requirement and Infection control website/telephone line response to care home support requirement:
DHSC: GOV.UK: | |||
Influenza Outbreak during pandemic | NHS
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International response | International Long Term Care Policy Network: | |||
Keeping away from other people | Public Health England - 23 March 2020: | |||
Medicines administration (delegation) | CQC - 1 April 2020: OPUS guide: DHSC: | |||
Mental Wellbeing Resources for the workforce | NHS:
SilverCloud:
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NHS mail | NHS:
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Parking in Tube station car parks | TFL: | |||
Patient Transport Services | NHS: | |||
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) | GOV.UK - 27 March 2020:
PPE to be made available, providers can get directly from National Distribution Centre:
In the future, if a care provider is unable to get PPE from their normal supplier, the supplier will be asked to report this to the National Supply Disruption Response (NSDR) team (as above), who can advise on alternative suppliers. Other suppliers are:
Where providers can’t source through their normal routes, they should contact the dedicated email: ncl.covidprocurement@nhs.net Contact Officer in Haringey Council for PPE is sujesh.sundarraj@haringey.gov.uk Public Health England:
NLP:
London Councils - PPE guides:
Haringey Public Health: | |||
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) support | Department of Health and Social Care:
Health and Safety Executive (HSE) - recall of Tiger Eye Protector product:
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Primary Care and Community Respiratory Resource pack | London Clinical Networks: | |||
Provider portal | NHS and London ADASS - 3 April 2020: Use Capacity Tracker in parallel with the Market Insight Tool to ensure care home, hospice and community capacity information is available to NHS and social care colleagues in real time. Please complete this by 12 noon every day (Monday to Sunday).
For technical support email londonadassmi@hastec.ltd | |||
Public Health Briefings for Care providers | Haringey Council Director of Public Health:
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Safeguarding poster | Haringey Council: | |||
Staying at Home - an easy-read guide | Public Health England - March 2020: | |||
Tech Firms bring technology to hospitals | GOV.UK: | |||
Testing | GOV.UK:
NHS: North London Partners: | |||
Training | Health England:
Skills for care: North London Partners | |||
Urgent Care | NHS 111: | |||
Vaccination | Public Health England NHS England and NHS Improvement (London Region)
North London Partners
Enfield Council - Integrated Learning Disabilities Service | |||
Verification of Death | NHS: | |||
Visitors Protocol | Care Provider Alliance: |