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Child neglect... do you know as much as you think?
How much do you know about child neglect? Would you know where to find information about what to be concerned about locally? Please help the Local Safeguarding Children Board understand what front line practitioners know about Child Neglect: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/CPLSCBNeglect. It should take a maximum of 2-3 minutes to complete. Please complete my Wednesday 01 May.
NEW: Hay fever - Spring 2018 communications toolkit now available
Practices can now access the new ‘Hay fever - spring 2018’ communication toolkit on the Healthcare professionals’ area of the CCG website HERE. All practices will shortly receive copies of an A4 hay fever poster for you to display in the display stands previously provided, or within your patient waiting room area. The communications toolkit provides additional resources to support the campaign and raise awareness with your patients such as website copy, patient leaflets and social media activity.
If you would like any further information or guidance on how to use any of these resources within your practice please contact the CCG communications team at capccg.contact@nhs.net.
CCG member practices’ meeting – 19 June
The date for the next meeting has been set as Tuesday 19 June, to be held at Woodgreen. Please put this date in your diaries.
Partner news
New EAHSN Primary Care Talks podcast now available
The Eastern Academic Health Science Network (EAHSN) has just published the third episode of its Primary Care Talks podcast, featuring two GPs tackling the genomics challenge. Dr Hasan Chowhan discusses bringing pioneering genomic testing projects into primary care with Cambridge GP Dr Alina Roser. Click here to listen to the podcast, and join the conversation on Twitter with the hashtag #PrimaryCareTalks.
STOMP (Stopping over medication of people with a learning disability, autism or both) pledge launches on Wednesday 25 April
An estimated 30,000 to 35,000 adults with a learning disability, autism or both take an antipsychotic, an antidepressant or both without an appropriate clinical reason, putting them at significant risk of harm, premature death and reduced quality of life.
NHS England, many Royal Colleges and social care partners have already pledged to stop the inappropriate use of these drugs and building on their success a new pledge has now been produced for healthcare providers. This new pledge will be officially signed and launched at an event on 25 April.
Endometriosis UK
Would you please display attached poster from Endometriosis UK regarding a patient support group that they run locally. This group is for anybody affected by endometriosis and provides a vital source of support and information for local people.
Support needed - Research Project
Primary care diabetes appointments for adults with learning disabilities
Lorna Rose a Postgraduate student is exploring the experience of primary care diabetes appointments for adults with learning disabilities as part of her PhD and would like to interview healthcare professionals who have provided primary care diabetes services for adults with mild-to-moderate learning disabilities. The confidential interview would take around 30 minutes and can be arranged to suit, ie Skype/phone, travel expenses will be covered.
This research has been reviewed by, and received a favourable opinion, from the Open University’s Human Research Ethics Committee - HREC reference number: HREC/2017/2522/Rouse/1 (http://www.open.ac.uk/research/ethics/), Cambridgeshire & Peterborough CCG and the NHS Health Research Authority - IRAS ID: 216015 (see attachedletter of approval).
Lorna can be contacted for further information at: lorna.rouse@open.ac.uk, phone no. 07756099058 You can also find further information about the project at https://diabeteslearningdisabilities.wordpress.com/.
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