Making Every Contact Count bulletin – July 2019

The Gosall Library, July 2019

This Library bulletin provides further reading to support the ‘Making Every Contact Count’ programme. There are links to recent research papers and articles in each of the MECC areas to give you further background information and evidence to consolidate what you have learned in your training, and to give you ideas and confidence for using MECC in your day-to-day encounters.

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Reducing the need for restraint and restrictive intervention

Department for Health and Social Care, June 2019

This guidance is for health services, social care services and special education settings. It sets out how to support children and young people with learning disabilities, autistic spectrum conditions and mental health difficulties who are at risk of restrictive intervention.

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Celebrate me: capturing the voices of learning disability nurses and people who use services

Foundation of Nursing Studies, June 2019

This initiative aimed to engage with nurses and people using services to gather evidence and demonstrate the impact of learning disability nursing, from experience, to help sustain its future. The outcomes from the extensive engagement have enabled us to highlight everything that there is to celebrate about learning disability nursing (the impact) and what needs to be championed for the future (to sustain it), from the voices of learning disability nurses and those of people with a learning disability and their families.

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Hidden no more: dementia and disability

All-Party Parliamentary Group on Dementia, June 2019

All-Party Parliamentary Group on Dementia report that identifies that according to domestic law and international convention, dementia is a disability. Thousands of people who responded to an All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) inquiry agreed that they see dementia as a disability. But they told the APPG that society is lagging behind and failing to uphold the legal rights of people with dementia. The evidence reveals that, across the country, people with dementia are not having their disability rights upheld. This report seeks to highlight the human impact that this has on people living with dementia. It focuses on themes of equality, non-discrimination, participation and inclusion.

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Missed opportunities: What lessons can be learned from failings at the North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman, June 2019

A report on the Ombudsman’s investigations into the deaths of two vulnerable young men. It finds significant failings in their mental health care and treatment.

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Ageing cohort of drug users

Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, June 2019

This report from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) explores the specific issues for older people with a drug problem focusing on those who have had a drug problem for an extended period of time. It describes the health and social care needs of this population, and identifies effective services responses and best practice. It finds that the past decade has seen a shift in the age profile of those seeking treatment for drug use. An ageing cohort, who have survived lengthy histories of heavy drug use, now account for an increasing portion of the treatment group in the UK and Europe.

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Adaptions without delay: A guide to planning and delivering home adaptations differently:

Royal College of Occupational Therapists, June 2019

This guide is to address delays in the delivery of all types of adaptations (minor and major) across all tenures that occur when people receive a disproportionate response to their need for an adaptation. Delays in installing adaptations can increase the risk of health and social care needs developing or increasing. A person waiting for an occupational therapy assessment where the situation and need for an adaptation is relatively simple and straightforward should therefore be avoided.

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Outstanding Models of District Nursing: A joint project identifying what makes an outstanding District Nursing Service

Queens Nursing Institute and Royal College of Nursing, June 2019

The reports on a project to analyse the District Nursing (DN) service and identify what makes an outstanding District Nursing service which:

  • Meets the needs of patients, families and carers;
  •  Supports and benefits the wider health and social care system through integrated care delivery;
  • Acknowledges all the elements that are required to be in place at a system and an operational level nationally, regionally and locally to prepare, support and maintain a sustainable District Nursing service. It explores a variety of District Nursing service models and the views and experiences of a wide range of stakeholders.

It explores a variety of District Nursing service models and the views and experiences of a wide range of stakeholders.

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