Health and Social Care

• Care homes: why ‘My Health My Care My Home’ matters

  15th July 2022 by Kirstin Millar

  Dr Paul Baughan, GP and Professional Adviser to CMO on Ageing and Health reflects on the development of ‘My Health My Care My Home’, a newly published healthcare framework for adults living in care homes.

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• Self management support for carers of people with Neurological Conditions

  10th May 2022 by Phil Sizer - Lead Trainer, The Pain Association

  Phil Sizer, Lead Trainer at The Pain Association, reflects on educating carers of people with neurological conditions in order to highlight the importance of their own wellbeing.

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• “Hear my voice and return to sender”: hearing the voice of people living in care homes

  18th March 2022 by Kirstin Millar

  “Hear My Voice and Return to Sender” is a collaborative project between Abbotsford Care and the Care Home Hub from Fife Health and Social Care Partnership. The project is exploring new methods of feedback and engagement to support the development of the Scottish Government’s new healthcare framework. As part of developing this framework, we have had many engagement sessions. Hearing the voice of people living in care homes will be an important part of this process.

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• Go for gold! Introducing our healthcare framework

  17th February 2022 by Kirstin Millar

  An introduction to a new healthcare framework for adults and older people living in care homes. This will set out what healthcare should be available for people living in care homes, how we can enable this
  and a plan of how this will be implemented. On this first post, we have a spotlight on Perth and Kinross’ Go4Gold Care Home Games Challenge event.

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• Director of Adult Care’s Spotlight: Jan Baird

  29th July 2015 by Linda White

  Integration is a daunting prospect and now the subject of most conversations nationwide, but in part of Highland – Highland Council area – it is now the way they do things. In this, the first of two blogs, we first report on the NHS Highland experience of the Lead Agency Model for adult social care….

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