The Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre and Scottish Care have developed this free to use web and mobile app to support Care Home and Care at Home staff with guidance and best practice information for: The app is continually being developed and expanded. It includes toolkits for: The can be found in the Links section of this website
Edinburgh Behaviour Support Service (EBSS) is offering training dates for techniques to help with understanding and responding to people experiencing stress and distress in dementia. The aim of the Essentials in Psychological Care package is to enhance participants’ understanding of the causes of distressed behaviours in dementia using evidence based strategies that you canapply effectively
The Major Trauma Centre team have been working with app developers to adapt the South East Trauma Network Guidelines into a mobile app. The app will contain guidelines covering over 35 trauma related topics and is expected to be available to download cross the region from October 2021.
Join NHS Lothian Health Protection Team for a Preparing for Winter Webinar. Webinars are taking place on the following dates: Thursday the 12th of October at 2pmThursday the 26th of October at 11m Thursday the 2nd of November at 11am Join us on Teams for the Webinars. A poster is available to download and display
The South East Major Trauma Network Management guidelines are now accessible via the NHS Lothian Clinical Companion App Download the Lothian Clinical Companion App from the App Store or view the South East Scotland Major Trauma Guidelines on your browser.
The website has a new page for the winter – Preparing for Winter – Infection and Outbreak Education, Information and Guidance The page contains vital information from NHS Lothian’s Health Protection on infection and outbreak prevention, testing and control. The page also provides details of education sessions you or your staff may wish to attend.
Since April 2021, Enabling Research in Care Homes (ENRICH) Scotland has successfully raised the profile of, and facilitated the planning and delivery of, research studies to benefit Care Home residents, their families and those that care for them across Scotland. You can learn more about them and what they can do for you and your
The Care Inspectorate has produced a poster and video to promote the importance of movement for older people. The poster is available to download. The video is available to be viewed via YouTube.
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