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NEW PAGE – Support for Care Homes – Collaborative Care Home Support Team (CCHST)
The CCSHTs aim is to support Health and Social Care workers to deliver safe and effective person centred care through collaboration across services to prioritise and provide support across Lothian. The team consists of a variety of teams from Care Home Support Teams (CHST) to Specialist Teams and teams under Care Home Programme Team.At the[...]
NEW! Spring edition of the CHIT CHAT Newsletter
The NHS Lothian Care Home and Integrated Teams Chat (CHIT CHAT) newsletter is compiled by the Quality Improvement Team for Care Homes and Primary Care Settings for Care Homes in Lothian. The newsletter features contributions from integrated teams (such as, tissue viability or CET) and Care Homes themselves in their own words. The newsletter will no longer be posted out to all Care[...]
**Places still available**Staff Retention Session
At the Lothian Care Academy we’re working with a number of Care Homes to develop support on recruitment and retention. We have a working group set up (but are always looking for new members) we are also holding a retention workshop in March. There are still spaces available to attend on the 16th March so[...]
