This page provides guidance, legislation and frameworks where a team or topic do not have this on their page.
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- Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development – Policy Consultations
- NHS Lothian Consultation Zone
- Scottish Government Consultations – Search for the topic you are interested in, such as, Care Homes
- The Care Inspectorate Consultation Hub
July 2023 – Meaningful Connection, Self-Evaluation Tool
The Care Inspectorate have launched a self-evaluation tool, which adult and older people’s Care Homes can use to help assess how they are doing in supporting meaningful connection for all people experiencing care.
It is also available at the Care Inspectorate’s Visiting, meaningful connection, Anne’s Law section of the Care Inspectorate website. Here you will also find links to the Anne’s Law factsheet, literature review, and previous webinar recordings.
May 2023 – Guidance for the use of face masks in Care Homes
The guidance for use of facemasks within social care settings has been updated. Please see Coronavirus (COVID-19) face masks and face coverings guidance withdrawal: letter for further information.
The use of face coverings/masks should follow where there is an Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) need to do so or following local health protection team advice and should be stood down when no longer required.
Where an individual would prefer to wear a covering/mask out with these scenarios, we would expect this to be an exception, and not normalised for all across a setting. As per the guidance, discussions with managers around use should take place and be documented.
At all times use, appropriate IPC practices should be taken in regards to wearing the mask as per the National Infection Prevention and Control Manual and Care Home National Infection Prevention and Control Manual. Services should also continue to follow guidance from Public Health Scotland for social, community and residential care settings.
March 2023 – Updated guidance from Public Health Scotland
Public Health Scotland has just published the updated Covid-19 guidance for social, community and residential care settings – version 2.6.
The key updates in version 2.6 are:
- the title of this guidance reverts back to its original “Covid-19 information and guidance for social, community, and residential care settings”, although it also covers prison settings (as version 2.5)
- clarifications to the advice on the use of face masks in the PPE and face coverings section.
- advice on essential visiting updated, including now examples of circumstances and factors that HPTs may consider when moving to “essential visiting” during an outbreak and additional advice for services on how to support this.
- changes specific to prison settings.
March 2023 – Framework to Enable Competency Assessment Across Health and Social Care in Lothian
The Framework to Enable Competency Assessment Across Health and Social Care in Lothian has been developed and authorised for use across all Health & Social Care services in Lothian.
The Framework was developed under the Lothian Care Academy umbrella to support governance arrangements, standardise the process, and promote ‘best practice’ with competency assessment across services.
Fundamentally competency assessment can happen if a Service Level Agreement is developed.
September 2022 – LADDeR
Post pandemic local and national plans to develop social care include an increasing emphasis on digital capabilities, electronic data capture and interoperability.
The Landscape Assessment of Data and Digital Readiness, (LADDeR), led by Edinburgh Napier University, looked at how far up this LADDeR care homes for older people in South East Scotland are.
Read this report to find out how many care homes have access to fast connectivity, collect care planning information electronically or on paper and the sector’s current information sharing capabilities.
July 2022 – Covid 19: Information and Guidance for Social, Community and Residential Care Settings
June 2022 – Scottish Government
Healthcare framework for adults living in Care Homes
My Health – My Care – My Home
This new healthcare framework, aims to strengthen the continuity of and increase access to healthcare for people living in care homes.
A newsletter was produced in February 2022 to provide an update on implementation and associated
workstreams.
This framework is linked with the new framework published by The Care Inspectorate “A quality framework for care homes for adults and older people. For use in self-evaluation, scrutiny, and improvement support”. This can be found on this page under April 2022.
May 2022 – Infection Prevention and Control Standards – for Health and Adult Social Care Settings
Information on the new standards can be found on the Health Improvement Scotland Website
April 2022 – A quality framework for care homes for adults and older people. For use in self-evaluation, scrutiny, and improvement support
The Care Inspectorate has published a new framework to allow for the addition of the two additional Health and Social Care Standards created by Scottish Government.
