We are working with our care home staff, residents, families and other partners to deliver services in care homes in a collaborative way so that together we can provide personalised care, improve outcomes and promote independence for people living in care.  Our work will recognise the life course of people who live in a care home and promote the ethos of living, ageing and dying well and ensure that we develop a model that is consistent and standardised across all the places the Trust provides support into care homes.

  • We have brought teams together that are delivering support in care homes and started to have the right conversations and raise the profile of the work we are doing to support care home residents and the Enhanced Health in Care Homes (EHCH) framework.
  • Explored our workforce model for care homes to support a consistent integrated offer across places, including community matrons, allied health professions, mental health and learning disabilities. Proposals for future workforce models are being explored and socialised with strategic leads.
  • Worked with our commissioners and other partners in Liverpool to finalise a revised EHCH specification with a view to potentially using this as an exemplar to be adopted across other ‘places’ where we deliver services.
  • Our learning disability and autism leads and matrons continue to develop a more integrated learning disabilities/physical health model within care homes to support residents with learning disabilities.
  • Reviewed how we collect data for the work we do within care homes and are in the process of testing a standardised EMIS template to support consistency in what we are collecting, measuring and reporting with a greater focus on care home resident outcomes. Once evaluated we will be looking to expand its use across care home teams in other areas such as Knowsley and Sefton.
  • Community Care Division operational teams in Liverpool have worked with local Primary Care Networks (PCNs) to develop a standardised agenda for care home multidisciplinary meetings (MDTs). This work follows on from the design and implementation of a new EMIS template, using the domains and principles of the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment, to support the consistent assessment of care home residents. These standardised approaches will support the delivery of a consistent offer into care homes and the residents they care for.
  • The Community Learning Disabilities and Autism service have completed a training package for GPs and nursing assistants and are now in the process of developing a training package for matrons who work in the care home sector. This will enhance the team’s knowledge of the learning disabilities and autism offer to care home staff and their residents. The team are exploring whether the roll out of a pre annual health check list will help care homes with the annual health checks to be completed with residents and their families.
  • Colleagues in the Mental Health Division have successfully recruited into a care home educator post who, linking in with the equivalent post holder for physical health services, support the delivery of bespoke education and training to care home staff across Liverpool. Training packages developed in Liverpool can be shared with teams in other places such as Sefton, St Helens and Knowsley.
  • Palliative Care and End of Life Teams are finalising a review of the service offer at local level to understand if variation between best proactive care and the current offer. This will support identification of risk and inequity and support future service planning. This is due to be presented in November 2024.

  • We have brought teams together that are delivering support in care homes and started to have the right conversations and raise the profile of the work we are doing to support care home residents and the Enhanced Health in Care Homes (EHCH) framework
  • Explored our workforce model for care homes to support a consistent integrated offer across places, including community matrons, AHPs, mental health and learning disabilities
  • Reviewed how we collect data for the work we do within care homes, and we have developed a standard EMIS template to support consistency in what we are measuring and reporting focused on outcomes
  • Worked with our commissioners and other partners in Liverpool to review the EHCH specification with a view to potentially using this as an exemplar we could use across other ‘places’ where we deliver services
  • Our learning disability and autism leads and matrons have been exploring how we can deliver an integrated learning disabilities/physical health model within care homes to support residents with learning disabilities.
  • Community Division operational teams in Liverpool are working with local Primary Care Networks (PCNs) to develop a standardised agenda for care home multidisciplinary meetings (MDT's). This work follows on from the design and implementation of a new EMIS template, using the domains and principles of the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment, to support the consistent assessment of care home residents. These standardised approaches will support the delivery of a consistent offer into care homes and the residents they care for
  • The Community Learning Disabilities and Autism Service have developed training packages for Nursing Assistants working across the care home sector. This will develop skills and enhance knowledge of the wider workforce available to support the care of residents with a learning disability. The team are now in the process of developing a training package for care home matrons to enhance the team's knowledge of the Learning Disabilities and Autism offer to care home staff and their residents.