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Online Financial Assessments - Making life easier!
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Working in adult social care, it's sometimes easy to forget what a complicated area it can be.
For people who have never needed additional support, it can come as a surprise that you often need to contribute for some of the services you need. Our new Online Financial Assessment tool is designed to help people better understand this process.
The digital calculator helps to give residents an indication about how much they might need to contribute toward the cost of their care.
The web-based tool asks people to complete five sections with financial information after which the calculator will give them an estimated figure of what they might need to pay.
Further support and guidance can be found here, to give people all the information they need to help them complete their financial assessment. We also have champions across adult social care from each service team/locality who have received a demonstration of the tool and can offer further support.
Our online assessment tool will be the quickest, easiest and most secure way for people to start the financial assessment process and is part of our digital first approach. People will still be able to use a paper version if they would prefer.
The digital improvements are all part of our drive to improve our service, making it easier for residents by creating a smoother, clearer pathway for them to access our services.
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Oxfordshire Oral Health Needs Assessment 2023: Key Messages for Care Homes
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Findings from the Oxfordshire Oral Health Needs Assessment 2023 have now been published.
These findings have highlighted the importance of promoting and prioritising good oral health across the whole system, which includes care homes. Oral health and related factors such as number of teeth, bite force, and chewing problems have a significant impact on older adults’ quality of life and ability to function. Oral health has impacts on many other elements of health, including nutrition, and is therefore an important element within individual care plans.
Results from Oxfordshire surveys with stakeholders have highlighted general county-wide issues with access to NHS dentistry across all age groups. Impacts resulting from COVID-19 and NHS dental workforce limitations are being felt across services.
The report highlights issues with access to dentistry within care homes, and outlines that more support is needed to promote partnership working between care homes and dental services. Additionally, commissioners are recommended to fund for local initiatives which promote oral health in care homes, such as peer-to-peer support.
Recommendations from the report include:
- Prioritising oral health in care homes
- Wider collaboration across organisations and systems
- Raising awareness of NICE and CQC guidance which can help to support oral health in care homes
- Providing more training programmes and resources for care home staff
- More resources to empower residents to maintain good oral health
- Piloting oral health champions in care homes
Community Dental Services (CDS) have a wide range of oral health-related training available to care homes and staff:
- CDS have collaborated with Oxfordshire County Council and offer a level 1 toolkit for carers within care homes.
- CDS then can offer further level 2 training for care homes and staff which focuses on maintaining and promoting oral health through incorporating national guidelines.
- Care homes can also complete Lifelong Smiles, which is a level 3 accreditation programme.
Overall, it is important to prioritise oral health across all services to make a difference to the oral health of people in Oxfordshire. A summary of the Needs Assessment can be found here.
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Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) support for Care Homes
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Local authorities have overall responsibility for social care in their localities, whilst UKHSA supports Care Homes during an outbreak.
The BOB Integrated Care Board (ICB) IPC team can support Care Homes across the area with specialist IP&C advice.
ICB may be able to provide:
- Urgent IPC site visits as required for outbreaks or requested by local authorities or CQC.
- Scheduled virtual and face-to-face IPC overview, training including PPE, hand hygiene, IPC standard precautions.
- A quarterly IPC forum/Webinar for care home staff
- Support/guidance with care management of residents diagnosed with C. difficile or bloodstream infections such as E. coli, MRSA.
- Attend the monthly care home forum to support IPC issues.
- IPC services cover care homes, LD, supported living, residential care home and hotels.
- ICB will work collaboratively with the local authorities and UKHSA to support care homes.
- Support to care homes wishing to provide IP&C quality improvement projects e.g., improved hydration of residents or increase knowledge of staff vaccination benefits.
For more information, please contact the IPC team at: bobicb.ipc@nhs.net
Lydia Rylance-Knight: Head of Infection Prevention & Control and Vaccination
Zahra McKinstry: IPC nurse Buckinghamshire
Hilary Munube: IPC nurse Oxfordshire
Jintana Loss: IPC nurse Berkshire West
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Advice Services
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We recently held an Oxfordshire advice services sector engagement workshop where we captured the views of stakeholders around current advice services and what future provision could look like.
We are keen to find out the views of people that have used advice services in Oxfordshire.
Please share the following link: https://letstalk.oxfordshire.gov.uk/advice-services to access information about services and the survey.
We would be grateful if you could promote this survey as widely as possible with the people you are or have worked with.
The survey closes on 30 November 2023.
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CQC is changing
Share CQC is changing on Facebook Share CQC is changing on Twitter Share CQC is changing on Linkedin Email CQC is changing linkNew assessments starting from 21 November in our South region
From 21 November we will start using our new single assessment framework in our South region.
Between 21 November and 4 December we will undertake a small number of planned assessments with 14 early adopter providers, whilst continuing to respond to risk. We will then expand our new assessment approach to all providers based on a risk-informed schedule.
We are sharing more information with providers in the south separately and will be in touch with providers in other areas of the country to confirm when we'll start using our new approach with them shortly.
NOTE: At this stage our new assessment approach will not apply to services we do not rate or NHS trust well-led assessments. We'll be in contact with those providers with the detail of how we'll roll out our new approach with them.
The South region includes services registered in these counties: Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Kent, Oxfordshire, Somerset, Surrey, Sussex and Wiltshire.
Catch up on our latest webinar
In the second of our 'CQC is changing' webinar series, you can hear from Amanda Hutchinson, Head of Policy, Regulatory Change and Dave James, Head of Adult Social Care Policy.
Amanda and Dave introduce quality statements and evidence categories, and the role they play in our new regulatory approach.
We talked through where these two elements fit in the wider new regulatory approach and what guidance is available to help you understand them. Sharing example quality statements to explore how we’ll use evidence categories to identify specific sources of evidence to use in our assessments.
How well do you understand how we're changing
To make sure we're sharing the right information at the right time about our new regulatory approach we'd like to understand how well you understand what we're changing.
Your feedback will mean we can give you more helpful information about our new regulatory approach.
Share your feedback on our latest guidance
We've recently published some new provider guidance that describes the evidence we'll use to assess individual quality statements for different types of providers.
We want to make sure this guidance gives you the information you need to understand this part of our new approach.
To help us understand that we'd like your feedback on the guidance.
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OxTrail - Something oxtraordinary is coming to Oxfordshire Summer 2024…
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OxTrail is Oxfordshire’s first ever sculpture trail, raising funds for Sobell House Hospice.
A team of over 30 life sized ox sculptures will be herded into positions throughout Oxford in the summer of 2024, creating an engaging, exciting event for the city its residents, businesses and visitors.
Each of the oxen will be uniquely decorated by local and international artists to form a vibrant and family friendly trail. Across eight weeks, OxTrail will encourage locals and visitors of all ages to explore Oxford’s iconic attractions, find some hidden gems, and engage with the community.
Care home fundraising
To get involved, you’ll need to commit to a fundraising target to help cover the cost of the fibreglass ox that you get to keep afterwards. We are asking each home to raise £1,000 to take part. You could ask for the support of local businesses. We will provide fundraising resources, advice and support, as well as a blank mini ox (approx 1.3m ( x 0.8m ( x 0.4m (width), ready for your residents to paint with your own unique design.
Resources will be available to support engagement with OxTrail for residents, loved ones and staff aswell as information about Sobell House, its services and support
Finally, we will provide tools to help with the creation of your fabulous ox design.
More information can be found here or by emailing oxtrail@sobellhospice.org. The registration form can be downloaded here.
We need your help to get mooo-ving across Oxfordshire!
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All-Age Unpaid Carers Strategy for Oxfordshire
Share All-Age Unpaid Carers Strategy for Oxfordshire on Facebook Share All-Age Unpaid Carers Strategy for Oxfordshire on Twitter Share All-Age Unpaid Carers Strategy for Oxfordshire on Linkedin Email All-Age Unpaid Carers Strategy for Oxfordshire linkThe All-age Unpaid Carers Strategy for Oxfordshire is for anyone who regularly supports another person on an unpaid basis – whether that be a friend, child with additional needs, loved one, parent, sibling, or a combination of these people.
This strategy has been co-produced with 1,600 adult and young carers along with stakeholders from Oxfordshire County Council, Carers Oxfordshire and many other partners from Oxfordshire County Council’s health and the voluntary sector.As a care provider we would like you to ensure that you include unpaid carers within your satisfaction surveys. We'd particularly like you to ask for their experience with the following:
- When I need to talk to the care provider do I get a prompt response?
- Are my queries normally resolved to my satisfaction when it’s a care agency matter?
- How can the agency improve the responses it makes to your needs as the family relative, carer friend?
Our Quality Improvement Team will capture this as feedback through our monitoring of your services and it will help us all to help improve the experience of these vital carers.
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The new Joint Strategic Needs Assessment has gone live!
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The Health and Wellbeing Board has just produced the 2023 Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) which is designed to inform local decision-making, by identifying community needs, so that they can be met by service provision. It provides the intelligence that will inform the Joint Local Health and Wellbeing Strategy (in development) which, in turn will identify priorities for action to improve the health and wellbeing of Oxfordshire’s residents and reduce health inequalities.
You can use the JSNA to:
- find out about the key issues affecting the health and wellbeing of your local community
- identify demographic groups and geographical areas that need targeted support
- provide evidence of local needs to support funding applicaitons and inform research projects
View the JSNA at Oxfordshire Insight, and use the interactive tools to explore data on different topics and local communities.
Key findings from this year’s report include:
Population and Demographics
- Between 2011-2021 Oxfordshire’s population increased by 10.9%, above the growth in England (6.6%).
- The population from mixed or multiple ethnic groups has increased by 71% over the past 10 years.
Start Well
- Most children in Oxfordshire, assessed as part of the Healthy Child Programme development review around their second birthday, reached a good level of development in five key areas. However, children living in areas with higher income deprivation had a lower (worse) than average good level of development.
- The number of mental health referrals for young people has increased, especially for those aged 10-19.
- There are clear inequalities for childhood obesity by deprivation, sex, and ethnic group. Data shows that children were more likely to be obese in more deprived areas of Oxfordshire.
Living Well
- Oxfordshire’s population is relatively healthy and does better or similar to the national average on most public health indicators.
- Some health conditions are above the national average, including cancer and osteoporosis.
- But there are pockets of deprivation and wide inequalities in health and wellbeing.
Age Well
- Oxfordshire’s population is ageing, a trend that is predicted to continue.
- There are clear inequalities in life expectancy across Oxfordshire. Males living in more affluent areas of the county are expected to live around 11 years longer than those in poorer areas. For females, this gap is around 12 years.
- In 2021-22 the rate of hospital admissions due to falls was above the national average.
- Oxfordshire was ranked the loneliest county compared with its statistical neighbours.
