- Created: Wednesday, 03 February 2021 21:10
- Published: Wednesday, 03 February 2021 21:10
- Written by Care Inspectorate
We have now delivered the first two phases of our three-phase package of support to the care sector around COVID-19 response and winter preparedness, with a series of 10 webinars across Scotland. We invited care homes for older people, care homes for adults and care at home services for adults to take part.
Our Level 1 webinars shared key information about COVID-19 and signposted participants to the relevant guidance in our Care Inspectorate COVID-19 compendium and COVID-19 FAQs. A guest speaker from Healthcare Improvement Scotland spoke about the 10 Essentials of Safe Care. Attendees have told us they found webinars helpful, with one person telling us that “Learning about the COVID-19 compendium (one stop shop) will be very useful for all staff”.
Our Level 2 webinars introduced the new self-evaluation that links to the pandemic-specific Key Question 7 in the Care Inspectorate quality frameworks. These webinars were designed to support services to use the self-evaluation tool and guidance. A care home manager and an operational manager from a care at home service shared their experiences of how they would use the tool in practice. Feedback on these webinars was positive, with 88% of care home participants and 100% of care at home participants saying they would use the self-evaluation tool, or elements of it, within their services.
Videos of the webinars are available on the Care Inspectorate knowledge and improvement website The Hub.
We are currently preparing the Level 3 webinars, which will be topic specific and take place during March 2021 – dates will be confirmed soon.
The above information is from Improvement Update Newsletter from the Care Inspectorate Wed 03/02/2021
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