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CQC single assessment framework – inspections and the new regime

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Sussex Partners in Care are partnering with Hempsons to offer this free webinar on Wednesday, 26th February 2025, at 1:00pm. Join Philippa Doyle, Head of Social Care at Hempsons, as she explains how the SAF is working in practice and what you need to know.
Click here to find out more and register →

You can also watch recordings of webinars Philippa hosted for Care England in 2024: 

Medicines Optimisation for Care Homes (MOCH) training

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These monthly training sessions focus on the Self-Care and Homely Remedies Toolkit, supporting care home staff in managing and administering medication. The sessions cover:

  • Self-Care medications
  • Homely Remedy medications
  • Personal Care medications/items

Participants will receive adaptable resources that can be tailored to their care home’s needs and have the opportunity to ask questions about the toolkit.

Upcoming sessions (all sessions held at 14:30pm): Tuesdays – 4th March, 1st April, 6th May, 3rd June, 1st July, NO August session, 2nd September, 10th October, 4th November & 2nd December 2025

How to join:
No booking required—simply click the link below to join the session via Microsoft Teams:
Click here to join the meeting

More information:
For additional guidance, visit the MOCH team’s resource page by clicking here. If you have any questions, please email [email protected].

MILE newsletter – Safeguarding in adult social care

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This newsletter highlights a selection of essential safeguarding courses and resources, offering you the opportunity to refresh your knowledge and stay up-to-date with best practice. As a registered manager, you play a pivotal role in fostering safeguarding awareness and ensuring the welfare of those in your care. Our aim is to support you in feeling confident and empowered to create a safe and supportive environment in your service.

Click here to read this week’s newsletter →

Outstanding Medication Management For Care Homes and Community Settings Masterclass

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Join The Medication Training Company online on Tuesday 18th March 2025, from 9:25am to 3:15pm, for a practical masterclass on medication management, led by pharmacist John Greene. Designed for care home managers and senior staff, this session covers:

1) How to manage and reduce the risk from medication errors

  • How common are mediation errors?
  • What is ‘Just Culture’
  • A focus on systems
  • Capturing error data
  • How the safest care providers achieve harm reduction.

2) How to attain and maintain top ratings from CQC for managing medicines

  • The top 12 medicines inspection areas targeted by the CQC
  • How to achieve good or outstanding ratings, and stay out of requires improvement / inadequate
  • An introduction to an exclusive medicines audit tool.

For more details or to pre-book, please click here.

Medication Errors – learning from errors to reduce harm

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This course from The Medication Training Company aims to teach health and social care professionals how manage, report and learn from medication incidents. The course will run online via Zoom on 17th December 2024, 21st January 2025, and 5th February 2025 between 09:30am – 13:00pm.

Learning outcomes:

  • Understand why it’s best to focus on harm reduction rather than trying to reduce medication errors
  • See errors as opportunities to learn (OTLs)
  • See how some of the world’s safest care providers achieved a reduction in harm from errors
  • Create a reporting system to ensure the whole organisation learns from incidents
  • Outline what an ‘outstanding’ incident reporting system looks like to CQC (KLOE S6)
  • Explain which medication incidents need reporting to Safeguarding and CQC
  • Use the Incident Decision Tree to understand when staff need support vs intervention
  • And more…

Click here to book your place →

What’s new in adult social care? – 2nd December 2024

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Welcome to another update on ‘what’s new in adult social care’ showcasing some of the key courses and resources for social care leaders. If you missed last week’s newsletter on ‘culturally appropriate care’ you can click here to access it now. You can also click here to access the full list of our previous newsletters.

Click here to access this week’s newsletter →

Evidencing CQC safe and effective staffing through workforce planning

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This online seminar is designed to help you implement effective workforce planning strategies, ensuring safe staffing levels and enabling your service to consistently deliver high-quality, person-centred care. Skills for Care will be running the seminar on 21st November, 18th December, and 14th January between 09:30am – 15:00pm.

What will this seminar cover?

  • What workforce planning is
  • The latest and most-up-to-date information about the factors that can affect an organisations workforce
  • How to workforce plan, using Skills for Care’s practical workforce planning tools and resources
  • How to use data to shape and refine a workforce plan.

Click here to find out more and book →

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