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COVID-19 information and guidance for health and social care professionals

Guidance nameSource and detail

Action Plan for adult social care

DHSC:

 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:

  • London Care Providers are being asked to update their bed capacity on Capacity Tracker. For more information email sanjeet.johal@nhs.net

Caring for someone who is dying

Hospice UK:

North London Hospice:

NHS London:

NHS:

Care of the deceased

Public Health England:

Care provision

North London Partnership (NLP):

NCF:

Haringey CCG:

Care Act easement: LA’s

Department of Health and Social Care:

Care Home settings 

British Geriatrics Society - 14 April 2020:

NHS Futures:

NHS London - 16 April 2020:

GOV.UK:

Public Health:

Haringey Council, April 2020:

NHS England and NHS Improvement:

NCL CCG:

Care Home Support

North Middlesex Hospital - information for Haringey care homes.

Contact information and sources of help for medical issues during COVID-19:

  • GPs - GP practices will be open on bank holidays
  • NHS 111 - available 24 hours a day
  • Rapid Response - available seven days a week, 8am to 8pm: 020 7288 3670
  • Phone advice from Palliative care team - Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm:
    • Tel: 020 8343 8841
    • Out of hours and bank holidays: 07957 588 273
  • Hospital consultant telephone advice from North Middlesex University Hospital - available seven days a week, 9am to 5pm:
    • Care of the elderly: 07436 561 077
    • Acute medicine: 07436 036 515 - please only contact this number after you have tried the GP, CHAT matron, Rapid Response, NHS 111 and after discussion with your care home manager or senior staff on duty
Community Health Services

NHS England and NHS Improvement:

Clinicians and NHS managers

NHS England:

Connected Communities Service

Haringey Council:

Coronavirus Act 2020

Legislation.gov.uk:

Cleaning of Non-Healthcare settings

Public Health England

CQC

CQC:

Death of a Worker

DHSE:

Dementia

Clinical Leadership Group:

DOLS, MCA, Best Interest

Shropshire DoLs team:

Frailty

NHS England:

Hand Hygiene

World Health Organisation:

Home care guidance

Public Health England:

Hospital discharge guide for residential settings

NCL:

Infection prevention and control in healthcare settings

NCL CCG - 30 March 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:

  1. Advice on infection control and management if a resident is admitted with suspected / tested CV19​​​​​​ - IPC email response/call will sign post to current guidance, but will NOT provide clinical advice on the management of patients/residents
  2. Signposting to relevant guidance, and to 111, GPs, MDTs as relevant - IPC email response/call will do this
  3. Helping providers understand and interpret the guidance - IPC email response/call will do this
  4. Signposting for escalation, specific clinical queries - IPC email response/call will NOT do this

DHSC:

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:

  • Let’s Talk Haringey (external link) - talking therapies and digital therapies for stress and low mood. They prioritise care sector staff in their current access criteria and include all staff working in Haringey even if their GP is elsewhere
  • Together in Mind (external link) - is a wellbeing and mental health project that connects and supports the North Central and North East London health and social care workforce
  • NHS hotline: 0300 131 7000 - open 7am to11pm every day
  • Text service available 24/7 - Text FRONTLINE to 85258

SilverCloud:

  • SilverCloud (external link) is a service commissioned by the NHS to offer unsupported pure self-help programmes for staff
    • Access code: NHS2020
  • Additionally they have also created a platform offering out their CBT based Guided Self Help programmes (external link) to all NHS patients, supported by any member of staff who has attended a brief online training course. This option is available free during the COVID-19 emergency.
  • Training webinars will run on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 10.30am from 6 April. Staff can register to attend via the link below:
  • Training webinars will be recorded and made available on YouTube, so staff who don’t necessarily want to support but would like to know more about Silvercloud digital therapy can attend the first hour of the webinar (total duration two hours)
NHS mail

NHS:

Parking in TfL 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

PPE chart: Recommended PPE for primary, outpatient and community care by setting, NHS and independent sector (external link - PDF, 187KB)

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:

  • There is been a safety concern for this product and it has been withdrawn from use. If you are concerned that staff may have been exposed to COVID-19 through splashes to the eyes while using Tiger eye protectors, then this should be communicated to HSE through the RIDDOR route (external link)

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:

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:

Training

Health England:

NCL CCG:

Skills for care:

Integration and better care fund:

Urgent Care

NHS 111:

Verification of Death

NHS:

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3 June 2020

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