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VIVALDI SOCIAL CARE MONTHLY
It's an exciting time for the VIVALDI Social Care team as we welcome even more incredible care providers to the program!
With data collection now underway, we’ve continued actively engaging with residents, relatives, stakeholders, and team members through visits and meetings. The invaluable contributions of those living and working in care homes are shaping the future of infection prevention while enhancing the quality of life for older adults in care settings.
Read about our latest visit on page 2.
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The VIVALDI Social Care Team is excited to announce the launch of data collection for its groundbreaking pilot has begun.
Designed by social care for social care, the VIVALDI Social Care pilot aims to enhance the understanding and management of infections in care settings. Over 600 care homes have joined this 12-month initiative, reflecting the sector’s commitment to advancing research and improving outcomes for residents and staff.
Listen to Mike Slator, Project Support Specialist at The Outstanding Society for an update on Data Collection now! Or read our blog. Data Collection
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The VIVALDI Social Care team visited Westcombe Park Care Home in Blackheath, London, as part of their ongoing efforts to enhance the quality of life for care home residents, relatives and staff. We were delighted to be joined by an incredible group of professionals and advocates who are deeply invested in the future of social care
Westcombe Park Care Home, operated by Bupa UK, is a purpose-built facility offering nursing and residential care. From the moment we arrived, Abbie, Gillian, Leon, Andy and team made everyone feel incredibly welcome. The hospitality and openness set the tone for an engaging and productive discussion.
Martin Green, CEO, Care England who was in attendance said “It was a fantastic event. The team at Wescombe Park, and all the colleagues from Bupa, made it such a special day, and it was great to see so many residents and families at the event. The level of engagement is testament to the quality of care, and the way in which the team at Wescombe Park engage the people who live in the care home.”
Read the whole blog here: Westcombe Park Visit
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JOIN THE ADULT SOCIAL CARE ENGAGEMENT COLLECTIVE
Coproduction and stakeholder engagement has highlighted that it is essential for the care sector to maintain control over how data can be used and what we must prioritise.
The Adult Social Care Engagement Collective seeks to include a broad spectrum of stakeholders from across the social care sector (including users, providers and commissioners) to ensure that research is driven by the sector, for the sector
These meetings are virtual for 1 hour on the second Tuesday of each month.
Microsoft Teams meeting:
Meeting ID: 393 285 053 338
Passcode: WncBqs
Please click on the above recording image to to view all previous meeting recordings on our website.
If you are interested in being a part of this collective, please click here to contact us.
Our Next VIVALDI Drop In Session is: WEDNESDAY 2ND APRIL 2025
Join us for a 30-minute drop-in session where your team, residents, relatives, or visiting professionals can hear updates, ask questions about the project, and provide feedback
Future sessions will recur every first Wednesday of the month from 13:00-13:30
Please find the recurring Teams invite here. Kindly save the dates in your diary and invite others to attend.
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OPT-OUT INFORMATION
OPT-OUT: We've been asked whether providers should share details with the project team if someone opts out. We can confirm that this information should NOT be shared with anyone outside your team at any point. When the project goes live, you will simply use the opt-out feature within your digital system. There will be no need to share the details of those opting out with anyone outside your organisation.
CONTRACTS INFO
Contracts—Everyone should have received their contract just before Christmas Please send it back ASAP. If you didn't get it or have any issues, please contact Lucy. info@vivaldisocialcare.co.uk
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We’re delighted to bring you our second VIVALDI Social Care Provider Spotlight.
This month we spoke to Lianne Ford, Head of Nursing at Exemplar Health Care Services Ltd.
Lianne spoke of Exemplar’s reason for joining the project:
“We are thrilled at Exemplar Health Care to be participating as a provider in the Vivaldi Care Home Study! This is a huge move for the social care sector and for us as a provider and what the future may hold following the first stage of this study. Staff across our services are busy having conversations with the people we support, families and external professionals about our participation and how this will impact our processes, experiences of people who liv, work and visit here and care delivery in the future. With current pressures faced by the NHS the last place we want the people we support to be is in hospital. We always strive to do all we can to keep people at home – being supported by teams who know them well.”
“I
think it is good that the NHS and care homes are working together to better residents lives and care”
Abi, who resides at Maypole Grove, Birmingham
Our ethos is to ‘make every day better’ for the people that live with us and also for people who work with us. The data that is collected through the Vivaldi care home study will be a further step forward with understanding how we can further improve this and also improve the experience people have when visiting us on both a personal and professional level. We don’t want to see the disruption and difficulties again in our sector or services that we saw during the Covid-19 pandemic. Our number one priority is the quality of care, experience and voice of the people we support and they are heavily involved in systems and processes through all areas of our organisation. We hope to learn from the data we collect to further improve our systems, processes and how we respond to circumstances that arise, keep people at home and ensure they are safe and well”
If you’d like to share your VIVALDI Social Care experience and be in our provider spotlight, please contact Lucy at info@vivaldisocialcare.co.uk. or check out the website at www.theoutstandingsociety.co.uk/vivaldi-socialcare
During a recent visit to Westcombe Park BUPA Care Home, Lucy Knight – VIVALDI ocial Care Co-ordinator, spoke o Chris Powling about the project and asked him for his houghts.
Chris said
“I can truthfully say I’ve been bowled over by this morning. The meeting was beyond anything I could have wished for a place that I’m very fond of. It was full of positive people with positive feelings about the VIVALDI project. The team were very clear about what it was, very reassuring and I’ve come away thinking that this is a hugely important project. So much so that I’m actually frightened that it’s not been done before!”
VIVALDI SOCIAL CARE DATA COLLECTION BEGINS
The VIVALDI Social Care Team is excited to announce the launch of data collection for its groundbreaking pilot has begun. This innovative project, spearheaded by University College London (UCL), Care England, and The Outstanding Society, has been co-produced with input from residents, relatives, providers, and partners across health and social care.
Designed by social care for social care, the VIVALDI Social Care pilot aims to enhance the understanding and management of infections in care settings. Over 600 care homes have joined this 12-month initiative, reflecting the sector’s commitment to advancing research and improving outcomes for residents and staff.
www.theoutstandingsociety.co.uk/vivaldi-social-care
