Topic: Safeguarding
These clinical toolkits have been developed in partnership between the RCGP and their funding and delivery partners. The resources have been created for primary healthcare professionals, patients and carers. These toolkits can be used to assist in the delivery of safe and effective care to patients. Learrning Disability Training – RCGP Toolkit
Since 1st April 2008 Child Death Review (CDR) processes have been mandatory for Local Safeguarding Children Boards (LSCBs) in England. CDR includes two interrelated processes that may trigger a serious case review: review of all deaths under the age of 18 by the local Child Death Overview Panel led by a designated paediatrician and including healthcare professionals, police and social workers. The panel […]
Safeguarding Adults is about organisations working together to protect an adult’s right to live in free from abuse and neglect. It is also about ma king sure that, wherever possible, organisations listen and give regard to the adult’s wishes, choices and feelings. The aim is to safeguard adults in a way that supports them in […]
Medical Records – Adopted Children (with acknowledgements to Wessex LMCs) Under adoption legislation an adopted child is given a new NHS number and all previous medical information relating to that child is put into a newly created health record. Any information relating to the identity or whereabouts of the birth parents should not be included […]
Safeguarding Children – A Beginner’s Guide (with acknowledgements to Wessex LMCs) RCGP supplementary guide to safeguarding training requirements for all primary care staff Although the intercollegiate document “Safeguarding Children and Young people: roles and competences for health care staff” (September 2010) guidance is not yet enshrined in regulations the LMC view is that as the […]
A new public awareness raising campaign, called ‘Thinking it? Report it’, launched in Somerset encouraging people to make contact with Adult Social Care if they think someone is being harmed. The campaign has been launched with the direct support of the Somerset Safeguarding Adults Board (SSAB), a multi-agency partnership including Somerset County Council, Avon & […]
It’s easy to assume that domestic abuse only affects partners or ex-partners within a relationship. However, an increasingly common form of abuse, with potentially devastating results, is set to challenge those inherent beliefs. In 2014/15, 3% of the approx. 700 referrals to Somerset’s Independent Domestic Violence Advisor Service were for victims where the perpetrator was […]
This Useful table highlights the common themes identified in inspection reports mapped against each Key Line of Enquiry (KLOE) for Safeguarding.
The DH commissioned from the Law Society a comprehensive guide to the law relating to deprivation of liberty safeguards. This has a helpful section on care homes and other health settings. Full Guidance
There are no statutory regulations that specify how often primary care staff should be trained. Fundamentally, it is important that if anything untoward happened in your practice, the Partners could stand in front of a coroner or judge and justify that the training they had provided for their staff was sufficient to ensure they were […]