Our strength is your involvement
Oxfordshire provider networks
Fortnightly
  • OACP Home Care network: Monday 1-2 via Zoom. Next meeting: 6 June

Monthly
  • OACP Daytime support network: 2nd Friday 1-3 pm via Zoom. Next meeting: 10 June
  • OACP Learning Disability network: last Tuesday 10-11 am via Zoom. Next meeting: 31 May
  • OACP-OCA Care Home network: 2nd Wednesday 2-3 pm via Zoom. Next meeting: 8 June

Plus
  • Oxfordshire Registered Manager Network: Thursday 15 September 1.30 - 3.00 pm
We have added two new partners to our growing stable of advice and offers for OACP Members - see the end of this and every newsletter. We will be providing a more in-depth overview of offers shortly.
If you are not yet an OACP Member please contact our Marketing Manager, Jane Wood, and see what we can do for you.
Local news
Do you have hospital issues? Complaints? Concerns?
Please raise these through the relevant Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS). All matters that go through PALS get raised at clinical governance in their particular area of expertise e.g. orthopaedics / LD etc, so it is imperative that any matters that need raising go through this route.






  • Frimley Health PALS including
  • Frimley Park Hospital
  • Heatherwood Hospital
  • Wexham Park hospital
REMINDER
A number of schemes paid for through WRRF to support the existing workforce and future recruitment have been announced by Oxfordshire County Council. Find out more below:
REMINDER
Oxfordshire Community Foundation opened two new grant funding opportunities: the COMF (Contain Outbreak Management Fund) grants from the county council; and Community Integration. Grants from £500 to £10,000 are available for running costs, project or capital expenses, or events. 

The COMF funding is designed to enable organisations that delivered emotional and practical support during the pandemic to continue to offer vital services that support communities and residents. There are separate application forms for small and large grants.

Community Integration grants supports work that brings people from different backgrounds together around the place they live, building long-lasting relationships between people of different ethnicities, socio-economic backgrounds or ages.

Both funding streams have the same closing date of Thursday 16 June 2022.
Compare the two opportunities and find out more. The same page has additional links to other funding streams.
Buckinghamshire is looking to recommission its home care provision across the county.
Expression of interest extended to 5pm 1 June 2022
National news
Excellent news that the Care Association Alliance has been accepted into the England-wide, Care Provider Alliance [CPA]. The CPA is the collaboration of 10 (now 11!) national care associations, including Care England, Home Care Association and VODG, providing one voice for adult social care.

Our own umbrella, the Care Association Alliance, has 50 local care associations as members meaning a combined membership of over 6,000 SME care providers across England and it is the biggest association in terms of numbers of providers.

This means that issues you raise through us, or through your national association membership, are being coordinated into core messages for DHSC and Government. Never has it been more important for us to join together to speak up for adult social care...
As we await local developments on the Fair Cost of Care exercise, we wonder if all of this will be in vain. As reported in LGC Plus, a meeting of the Commons’ Levelling Up, Housing & Communities Committee, Local Government Minister, Kemi Badenoch, said the levels of Government funding for adult social care were 'adequate', but admitted that there were issues.
Ms Badenoch said: “As far as we can see, we are providing enough money to the sector.”

However, later in the meeting, Ms Badenoch told the committee that high demand in the sector was placing burdens on Government’s ability to provide funding.
Demand for adult social care, in particular, is outstripping at the rate at which we can fund it,” she said. “So, within the package we have financially, we think that we have done very well in terms of providing for local government. Given the growth of the country that we have at the moment, I think that we are doing relatively well in terms of funding adult social care.”

Ms Badenoch also said that the longest period she can give any certainty for a funding settlement is two years, after which there’s a national election.

The Committee asked the Minister whether Local Government could expect the long-awaited fair funding review at the same time as next year’s settlement.
“Well, it depends what you mean by fair funding review,” Ms Badenoch said. “I have spoken to so many different council leaders and everybody feels they are unfairly treated, and the fair funding review is going to make things better for them. Obviously, that cannot be the case. What we are working on is trying to get the system into shape so that councils have the funding that they need long term as their needs and resources are evolving throughout the period."

On whether the department was looking to adjust spending on local government in line with rising inflationary pressures, she said:
“It is a very, very difficult scenario. it is only resolved…in terms of increased funding…by serious borrowing or serious taxation. Neither of which are appetising at the moment. But we’re doing everything we can to help those particular pinch points.”

Ms Badenoch said DCLG is looking at this 'all the time', but has been unable to have a definitive view "because literally day-by-day we’re learning new information.”

It seems to us that the only other ways that social care could be funded in the future are continuing, and indeed increasing, cross-subsidisation from private to public (a route not open to all providers and likely to be an unrealistic route following the care reforms), or re-balancing the funding between NHS and adult social care using the ICS routes.

The remaining route may be an insurance policy that could provide later-life assurance for care needs. However, this doesn't necessarily cover all needs catered for by adult social care and has serious implications for people on lower incomes who are the recipients of publicly-funded care. There doesn't appear to be a mature market for this at present, but you can read more options here.

If this isn't thought through and funded, we will find ourselves going round in a circle again with social care unresolved.
Fair Cost of Care - Capacity Tracker 
To support the Fair Cost of Care exercise, the DHSC Capacity Tracker Care Home and Home Care survey has been extended to 7 June. The survey is an opportunity for providers to share information about who is receiving care in their service for DHSC to better understand the impact the reforms will have on providers and the wider sector. We encourage all providers who have not completed the survey to do so. Completing the survey will help build a comprehensive picture of local need and provision.
You can access the survey via the Capacity Tracker.
Provider data assurance
The Health and Care Act received Royal Assent recently and it contains new statutory powers that enable Government to require the sharing of types of data and they can issue financial penalties to providers that do not comply with the above or provide false or misleading data. Data collection by providers will become mandatory from 1 July, although it's likely that enforcement will come sometime in the Autumn.

We are all aware of the challenges of the Capacity Tracker and the suitability of the current set of questions that require data from providers. We understand that work is ongoing about how to improve this, identify what would be useful and design a process that includes reflecting it back to providers. A first step on this road was DHSC's Provider Assurance webinar flagged last week and well-attended on Monday.

Shortly, a set of workshops will be available to book, and DHSC encourages people to engage in these and share feedback on the provisions of the Act. We will of course update you as the strategy develops.

This move on clarifying data collection is part of a 10-year vision for adult social care. DHSC assures us that they want this to be:
  • transparent and accessible by all who need it
  • used intelligently to support high-quality commissioning and delivery of services by providers,
  • support system assurance and the management of risks at local, national and provider levels and
  • proportionate and not overly burdensome to you.

To ensure the system works, including for providers, DHSC recognises that there needs to be high levels of compliance. To achieve this they intend to:
  • Reduce the scope and frequency of data collection and make sure the data is transparent and accessible to all
  • Work with partners including providers and ensure the sector knows what they are mandating and how they can share their data
DHSC regard maintaining high levels of data sharing is critical to ensuring high-quality care.

DHSC reduced data collection by around 30% from the end of March 2022 to early May 2022 as an initial response to changing needs and provider feedback. Most significantly some data is now requested weekly or monthly rather than daily. Further reductions and improvements are already planned following further feedback from users. The Capacity Tracker Data Advisory Group which has met fortnightly since COVID will continue to advise on all changes - we have a local representative in that Advisory Group and we have a network of feedback through the Care Association Alliance.

Alongside this, there will be a round of workshops to help establish what data is currently collected, used and shared across the sector.
This information is to identify specific data themes and inform a second round of workshops at national and regional levels.
Following this, a first draft of a minimum data set will include details of who will collect what and how it will be used and shared.
A final round of workshops will involve engagement on the data sets and working towards initial implementation in 2023/24 with a phased approach over the following 1-2 years.

To enable high-quality care across the system, from the summer DHSC will be using their new powers to mandate completion of the Capacity Tracker across 2022/23, to include care home vacancies, workforce and resourcing, PPE availability and testing and outbreaks. The Health and Care Act includes a provision to mandate data collections which will go live from July 22 and a provision to make enforcement regulations which will go live from November 2022. DHSC has considered the circumstances in which financial penalties might be more or less likely and how the fine will be calculated.

DHSC will consider issuing fines where:
  • Providers have failed to share their data over multiple collection windows
  • DHSC has offered to support the provider to share their data but providers still do not share
  • Providers have had an opportunity to appeal

DHSC does not envisage issuing fines where:
  • Providers have been unable to share their data despite making a good faith attempt
  • Providers have a reasonable excuse for not sharing the data
  • Providers have, following engagement shared their data

DHSC would welcome feedback on the proposed mechanism. Are these the right principles?
  • Fines should be calibrated such that they are fair but represent a genuine deterrent.
  • The formula for calculating fines should be transparent and easy to understand.

The Monday webinar contained a lot of discussion in regard to fines, especially for smaller providers who are likely to have fewer resources to focus on this new obligation.

Next steps
  • DHSC to review feedback and respond to questions.
  • DHSC to reflect feedback to Ministers on how to support and encourage providers to share their data.
  • Further workshops on long-term data collection, and approach to enforcement.

If you would like to join the next workshop please email providerdata@dhsc.gov.uk - the first one is on 13 June, OR send your feedback to us and we will relay questions and concerns through our Better Security Better Care team who will be attending.
Following all that we would like to remind you that National Smile Month is running from 16 May - 16 June.
Community Dental Services has created this poster to explain to adults, carers, groups, professionals about NSM and what is happening to raise awareness. The poster also explains a few things you can do to make sure you or people you care for, stay pain-free and smile!
ONS released sickness figures for 2021 last week. Not surprisingly sickness levels across the UK last year were the highest since 2010 although national sickness rates have been falling year on year since 1999
The most common reason for sickness absence in 2021 was "other" conditions, including accidents, poisonings, diabetes and of course, coronavirus (COVID-19).

COVID-19 accounted for 24% of all occurrences of sickness absence in 2021, up from 13.9% in 2020. The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development reported that two-thirds of organisations include COVID-19 among the top three reasons of short-term absence in 2021.

Despite these increases, sickness rates for private-sector employees continued to track c1% lower than public sector employees. However, ONS suggests that this may be because:
  • there are differences in the types of jobs between the sectors, and some jobs have higher a likelihood of sickness than others
  • workers in the private sector are more likely not to be paid sickness absence than those in the public sector
  • the analysis only counts someone as sick if they work fewer hours than they are contracted for and would exclude someone who makes up lost hours at a later point in the week; individuals in smaller workforces, which are more prominent in the private sector, maybe under more pressure to make up any lost hours, but no data was collected on hours made up following sickness absence

Not surprisingly, 'workers in caring, leisure and other service occupations had the highest sickness absence rates in 2021 at 3.8%'.

The sickness absence rate for part-time workers has been consistently higher than the rate for full-time workers. ONS explains this in part by higher numbers of women working part-time, as women also tend to have higher rates of sickness absence. The sickness absence rate for part-time workers was 3.1% in 2021, a 0.5% increase from 2020. The sickness absence rate for full-time workers was 2.0% in 2021, an increase of 0.3% from 2020.

Alongside women and part-time workers, groups with the highest rates of sickness absence in 2021 included older workers and those with long-term health conditions.
DHSC has published a summary for the first time of wellbeing support available for health and social care workforce including a Wellness Action Plan. Read more here.
We have included links to the local wellbeing supports across BOB in Regulars further down this newsletter.

This new page brings together all things Adult Social Care on the DHSC/ Gov.UK website under four headings:
  • Infection prevention and control
  • COVID-19 testing in adult social care settings
  • Workforce
  • Planning care
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has provided interim advice that covid-19 boosters should be extended to over-65s, health and care staff and clinically vulnerable adults aged 16-64. The JCVI said this would top up levels of protection for the winter.

At the moment, a narrower group is being offered a spring booster:
  • The over-75s
  • Residents in care homes for older adults
  • People aged 12 and over who are immunosuppressed
Vaccination of other groups remains under consideration within JCVI’s ongoing review.
FluCare is a National Institute for Health and Care Research-funded project exploring whether offering a package to encourage staff to receive their flu vaccine in the care home can increase uptake of the vaccine. To help the study understand whether the FluCare package works, some homes will receive the FluCare package and others will not. All participating homes will receive £500 to cover the costs of the time spent taking part and providing information for the researchers, whether they are chosen to receive the FluCare package or not.
To take part, your care home must:
  • Be a residential or nursing care home in England
  • Be providing care for people aged 65 and older
  • Have ten or more staff members of any role
  • Have a flu vaccination rate of less than 40% (from the 2021/22 flu season)
More information at www.flucare.co.uk
DHSC has launched a call for evidence on vitamin D inviting views on how to improve the vitamin D status of the population in England, in line with existing recommendations, as well as addressing associated health disparities and improving health outcomes through maximising the benefits of vitamin D.

The call for evidence invites views on the following specific areas:
  • addressing health disparities related to accessing and consuming vitamin D
  • improving population awareness of vitamin D
  • improving awareness among health and care professionals of vitamin D
  • improving vitamin D status through diet, including fortified foods and biofortification
  • improving vitamin D status through dietary supplements, and increasing access to and availability of dietary supplements

Data shows 1 in 6 (around 13% to 16%) of all adults have low vitamin D status and mean vitamin D status is higher in white adults compared to black African, black Caribbean, black ethnic groups or south Asian adults.

We are specifically looking to gain views from vulnerable and older people.
 
Between late March and early April to the end of September, most people can make (synthesise) all the vitamin D they need through sunlight exposure on their skin and from a balanced diet. However, during the autumn and winter months, the sun is not strong enough to enable this synthesis to take place.
 
During the summer months, some people have very little or no sunshine exposure and will not make enough vitamin D from sunlight. This may include the elderly, people who are housebound, confined to the indoors for longer periods or cover their skin more when outdoors.
 
We welcome views on:
  • How guidance or campaigns can be tailored in order to better reach these groups?
  • How can health and care professionals work alongside these groups to raise awareness and examples of innovative and/or good practice?
  • How to increase the awareness of all-year-round supplementation recommendations for these groups?
 
The NHS plan for 2023-24 has a target of 75% for annual health checks for people with a learning disability. Each check will also have to be accompanied by a health action plan and the health check must have taken place in the first six months of the year - previously many checks were left to the last quarter of January - March.
However, as the national delivery is currently 75% this year's target does not seem overly ambitious.
Mental health and wellbeing plan: discussion paper and call for evidence
Seeking views on what Government can do to improve everyone’s mental health and wellbeing.
The consultation closes at 11:45 pm on 7 July 2022
Physical activity and long term health conditions resources.
The Richmond Group of Charities have been working with Mind, Parkinson’s UK, MS Society and Sport England to tackle physical inactivity amongst people with long term health conditions. A number of projects have been developed and together with insight and findings, an Evaluation Report has been published that you can find here.
In the report you’ll find learning about what works to support people with long term conditions to be active, what some of the barriers are, and how collaboration delivers greater impact. There are a number of different recommendations for anyone funding, developing, delivering, and evaluating physical activity behaviour change projects for people with long term conditions.

The Richmond Group also developed a suite of Physical Activity and Long Term Conditions Resource Packs aimed at:

The packs include:
  • four ways to make a difference and help people with long term health conditions be more active
  • a summary of useful statistics and essential information about physical activity and long term health conditions including why it’s important to engage with this issue and how supporting people to be active can help organisations
  • tailored resources and case studies that give examples of how to act upon the information in practice.

For more information on the report and resource packs contact richmondgroup@macmillan.org.uk.
Alzheimer’s Society has developed a practical guide for anyone designing innovative products and services to tackle the challenges that come with dementia.
The Dementia and co-creation guide outlines the value of designing with people affected by dementia. It contains practical tools and methods for co-creating effectively and a handy checklist for planning co-creation activities. It also sets out some best practice guidelines for digital accessibility. At the end of the guide, you will find a number of case studies to demonstrate how co-creation can work in the real world.
The next generation of inventors do need to get out on the ground and in people’s shoes to co-create solutions. I fear innovators are often stuck away in offices remote from reality.” – Alexander, family member of person living with dementia.

This guide will inspire and enable designers, researchers, engineers, and entrepreneurs to collaborate in a meaningful way with people affected by dementia. This will result in innovative products and services that improve quality of life and make the world better for everyone. 

UKHSA has announced that the quarantine period for Monkeypox is 21 days. Monkeypox is a generally non-fatal, but highly contagious, virus, which spreads through sexual contact or close social contact.
REMINDERS
Nurse Leadership Course – register now! Please share with your nursing staff.
In partnership with Skills for Care and Burdett Trust for Nursing, Oxfordshire County Council has funded a Nurse Leadership Course that will run from June to November 2022 aimed at Registered Nurses in leadership roles working in Social Care settings.
This course is free of charge to those in the Oxfordshire area.
Over a course of 5 one day sessions, this programme will support delegates to understand and develop their leadership style and the impact this has.
The workshop sessions will be interactive with presentations, discussions and exercises that will support the development of knowledge. Topics will include:
  • working across professional, organisational and system boundaries 
  • developing and implementing new practice and service redesign projects 
  • using high-level negotiating and influencing skills 
  • leadership in contexts that are unfamiliar, complex and unpredictable. 
Delegates will also be allocated an independent mentor to further develop their leadership and management skills.
Please contact evie.bennett@oxfordshire.gov.uk to request further information and a registration form by Thursday 26 May.
Deadline for applications is Monday 13 June
Agency Fees for Social Care - survey by the Care Provider Alliance (the national body bringing together national care associations)
The adult social care sector currently faces significant challenges in both the recruitment and retention of staff. As such, there has been a significant increase in the use of agencies to help fill workforce gaps, which are currently over 10%, to deal with absence due to sickness, and 34% attrition levels. The greater use of agency staff has consequently increased the demand and cost significantly to an unsustainable level.

Following a discussion between Care England and DHSC in May to discuss pragmatic solutions to the costs of agency staff, DHSC has asked for quantitative data to take this issue forward.

This survey has been devised as a means of demonstrating the multi-faceted issue of sourcing and paying for agency staff which will underpin ongoing discussions seeking to provide a sector-wide resolution to this issue.

This survey covers nursing and carer agency cover only and all information provided will be handled sensitively and anonymised. A high-level briefing that covers the key results from the survey will be shared with respondents in due course. 

The survey closes at midday on 1 June and can be found here.
Reduced test kit deliveries over the Jubilee bank holiday - 2 and 3 June
Any tests ordered on or after the 27 May will not be delivered until after the bank holiday period. NHS Test & Trace encourage you to ensure that you have sufficient stock of LFDs available for both asymptomatic and symptomatic testing.
 
New 119 opening hours from 30 May 2022
The current opening hours of the 119 telephone helpline are 7am to 11pm, 7 days per week. 
From 3 May 2022 the opening hours will change to:
  • Monday to Friday: 8am - 6pm
  • Saturday and Sunday: 9am - 1pm
Webinar & Podcast city
Alongside the Berks, Bucks and Oxon DSPT offer from OACP, MKB Care and BCA working together, NHS Digital offer weekly NHSmail drop-in sessions.
The NHSmail team has reduced these sessions to 30 minutes.
At this drop-in, there is no agenda or slides, this is an open session to give care providers the opportunity to ask questions about NHSmail, directly to the NHSmail team, just pop in, ask your question and leave once you have your answer.
No registration is required to attend but please note this session is for care providers only and not for those in supportive roles for NHSmail.
Runs until 1 June when it will be re-assessed and further communications will be issued.
Physical Activity in Clinical Care Training for registered healthcare professionals.
More than 500 people have already attended across Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire.
This training is delivered by a PHE Physical Activity Clinical Champion.
CPD certificates are provided after the session.

You'll learn:
  • The importance and benefits of physical activity
  • Current CMO guidelines (updated in 2019)
  • How to provide brief advice during consultations

Plus hear from your local Active Partnerships about local physical activity opportunities:

To find out more contact admin@getberkshireactive.org

After training:
  • 9 in 10 felt more knowledgeable about physical activity & aware of resources to support
  • 9 in 10 felt more confident in their skills to support someone to be active
  • Average 8.6/10 score was given for how useful the training was for their role

“I feel better informed to advise patients and colleagues - better self care too! I will try to avoid sitting still working.” - GP
National Standards of Healthcare Cleanliness Webinar

This webinar scheduled for today [25 May] has been cancelled for personal reasons.
The webinar will be rescheduled by Skills for Care.

Since the original invitation was sent out the mandatory implementation for care homes has been confirmed as from November 2022.

Did you know that from November 2022 the National Standards of Healthcare cleanliness became mandatory for all health settings including care homes?

The Skills for Care-led ‘SE IPC Community of Practice’ will have the National Lead for the National Standards of Healthcare cleanliness join to talk about:
  • the key features of the standards and how they can be applied into a social care environment
  • the idea of a cleaning charter
  • the functional risk assessment -a constructive approach to identifying risk and then actions to take
These practical steps will enable you to record and evidence your practice for CQC inspection purposes.

You might find it useful to attend with housekeeping / domestic leads, so they also hear about these standards and support you in the implementation.

If you are not part of the SE IPC Community of Practice please book a place by emailing Lena.Cox@skillsforcare.org.uk
Health and Safety Matters | Musculoskeletal Disorders: Managing the Risk of Manual Handling and Display Screen Equipment for Workers on Site or Working from Home

  • Wednesday 22 June 2022
  • 10:30 am

The world of work is constantly changing and adapting but the pandemic has made adaption necessary for many organisations. In this new normal, organisations must remain mindful of MSD risks and take ongoing action to monitor and manage them. This strong focus on worker health and safety, in turn, benefits organisational performance.

To help to inform employers, HSE present a free webinar on how to effectively manage the risk of MSDs in your workplace and protect your home workers. This hour-long event will feature experts from HSE including HM Health and Safety Inspectors and the Principal Ergonomist to discuss current guidance and principles and give some practical examples of where the right, proportionate approach has worked well. Questions can be asked during the webinar and NEBOSH and TSO will join us to highlight official resources, products and services that can help you to identify and reduce risk of injury.
Grey Matter Learning
8 programmes of Lead to Succeed and Well Led across 2022. 

If you are registered on ASWDC (Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set) and compliant by 31 March you can claim back up to £500 per person that completes a programme before the end of May.
Regulars
Wellbeing
If you live or work in Oxfordshire or Buckinghamshire
You Matter: 0800 145 6568
8 am – 4 pm, Mon to Fri (except bank hols)
If you live or work in Berkshire
Wellbeing Matters Line: 0300 365 8880,
9 am – 4 pm, Mon to Fri (except bank hols)
Resources

Free DSPT support for Berks, Bucks, and Oxon

View the latest DSPT webinar recording:
Data Protection Compliance in conversation with Royds Withy King - Watch it here

Come to our next webinar event 'Boost your Cyber Knowledge' with Chris White, Head of Cyber and Innovation from the Cyber Resilience Centre South East - Book here
Digital solutions are here to stay! The Better Security, Better Care programme will continue throughout 2022 - 23. We are reviewing current activities, and the availability and format of support will change after March 2022. We strongly encourage you to contact the DSPT team now to access this free support.

If you are based in MK and have not yet been contacted by Bedfordshire Care Association who are leading on this for BLMK ICS area, please let us know and we will signpost you.

DSPT contact details
COVID-19 infection rates dashboards usually updated weekly:
Trusted Assessor services

The Oxfordshire Trusted Assessor service is closed.
For Milton Keynes and Buckinghamshire, the Trusted Assessor Service is run for care homes only by Lincolnshire Care Association.
Contact: Michelle Yusuf -
The project runs also for Hinchingbrooke and Addenbrookes hospitals.
BCA, MKB Care and OACP working together for you
Care Association Alliance | our big family
As well as a constant stream of questions and answers by email from around the country, we are also part of the CAA fortnightly teleconference on Wednesdays. This informs us of current concerns and potential solutions and helps inform our local communications.
Consistent, quality information
We are mailing out once a week on a Wednesday, so you know when to look out for it. These updates will provide summary advice on emerging issues and signpost providers to government and other statutory agency advice as needed.

Reminder
We are always keen to hear from providers, if you have anything you would like to share with provider colleagues, please send to the usual address.
OACP Member offers | OACP works with the following suppliers to bring you market insight, quality products and expert advice. Contact them today...quote 'OACP'
Help yourself to help us
Now available to all Oxfordshire care providers.
Spectrum is a well-established buying consortium with an emphasis on the Care Sector including care homes, domiciliary care and supported living. They have been sourcing discounts with major suppliers for their members since 1992.
Expertly crafted award-winning dishes. We’re the leading producer of delicious and nutritious food.
Prepared by specialist chefs
Frozen to lock in nutrition
Cooked and served with ease
Supported from day one

Whatever your goals, Citation will help your business to succeed with unrivalled HR and Health & Safety support and expertise for small and medium-sized business.
10% off your first contract as an OACP Member.

As seen at CMM Tri-County Conference 2021
Training that Creates and Sustains Emotional Resilience

Brilliant training! It was easily the best and most relevant training that I have ever had since I started work. It has had a massively positive effect on myself and the team - without it we would have suffered badly during the pandemic! | Amy Price - Cancer Nurse Specialist


The platform for outstanding care management.

Our platform gathers insights to help you allocate resources and speed up your day-to-day tasks, so you can focus more on those in need.

Easy and intuitive, it can be used in any setting, without the need for extensive training. Designed alongside support workers and service users, it's the platform of choice for enriching the lives of everyone in care.

Log My Care is accredited by NHSX as an ‘Assured Supplier’ for Digital Social Care Records.

Person Centred Software’s Mobile Care Monitoring is the most widely-used digital care management system in the UK, and the most widely referred software provider within social care.
Over 3,000 care providers using Mobile Care Monitoring.
Get your membership paid for with your first contract.

Log My Care is accredited by NHSX as an ‘Assured Supplier’ for Digital Social Care Records.

RWK Goodman LLP is the new brand for Royds Withy King and is the preferred legal supplier for the care sector in Oxfordshire.

We provide high-quality workwear, interview training and employment advice to women who need it – all free of charge.

SY has been actively working with small businesses for 20 years.
We build stable, secure IT environments and deliver high-quality IT services to our clients.

Keep in touch
Happy with what you are reading?

Please tell colleagues and pass on this newsletter.

Or contact us with colleague details who would like to be on the mailing list.


Let's grow OACP