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GUIDANCE AND TOOLS

At Health care and Social Support, we offer tools and resources to help in providing guidance to our member organizations regarding homecare services. 

On this page, you can narrow your search for resources by choosing a document type, the topic of interest, year, and country and get your desired tool for help. 

Our efficient guidance on your desired topic can help reshape homecare providers’ procedures and protocols. The variety of resourceful documents related to your topics of interest can be a source of knowledge and information for carrying out all the necessary guidelines.

At Health Care and Social Support, we aim to provide our members with all the necessary guidelines and advice to target all the essential preventions amidst the Covid-19 pandemic. Keeping in view the social support for elderly and adult individuals in the Covid-19 prevention guidelines

  • For an adult social care facilities and services in England, including HomecareHomecare, a revised infection control and prevention resource has been published, which is available in our resource library.
  • The information also includes the COVID-19 supplement, which provides instructions on immunization, personal protective equipment (PPE), staff movement, and testing.
  • UKHSA has updated its COVID-19 testing guidance for adult social care services.

UKHSA has recommended that regular, asymptomatic screening of workers in health and social care can be paused in England due to a decline in COVID-19 case numbers. As long as there aren’t many cases, social care staff won’t need to conduct routine tests twice a week starting in August 2022.

 

GUIDELINES FOR GETTING MEDICAL HELP DURING COVID-19

At Health Care and Social Support, we have a list of guidelines from the UKHSA to ensure the standards of quality are met for our member organizations providing homecare services.

The NHS expanded the list of COVID-19 symptoms in April 2022 to include symptoms other than a high temperature, a new, ongoing cough, and a loss of taste or smell. The additional symptoms were shortness of breath, feeling worn out or exhausted, achy body, headache, sore throat, blocked or runny nose, appetite loss, diarrhoea, or feeling or being sick.

To find out what to do if you or someone else has a medical problem, use this online resource from the NHS; using NHS 111 Online-Get medical assistance.

In case you want to know more about Covid-19 prevention in Health Care and Social Support, contact us at the Members’ Helpline.