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Changes to team locations
PUBLISHED 1st April 2020
The table below provides detail of the relocation of teams during the Coronavirus period.
Service provision is not affected
Team
Moving from
Moving to
When
Neuropsychiatry
Neuropsychology
Clinical Health Psychology
Bennett Centre
Lyme Brook
Friday – close of play
Community Learning Disability Team (CLDT)
Broom street
IST, Harplands
Friday – close of play
Children’s Learning Disabilities CLDT
Children Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Looked After Children
North Staffordshire core CAMHS
Dragon Square
Darwin (School side)
Friday – close of play
North Stoke core CAMHS
South Stoke Core CAMHS
Roundwell
Blurton
Darwin School site
Friday – close of play
Children’s Eating Disorders
Bennett Centre
Darwin school site
Friday – close of play
Parent and Baby Team
Hanley
Sutherland
Friday – close of play
IAPT Stoke
Hope centre
Home working
Commenced
Mental Health Support Teams
Dragon Square
Tunstall
Roundwell
Darwin school
Friday – close of play
Resettlement and Review
Hope Centre
All working from home
Commenced
"Don...Swab...Doff!"
Andy and Rob from the Infection Prevention and Control Team show you how to put on (Don) PPE, take a nasal and throat swab, and take off (Doff) PPE safely in 5 minutes and 32 easy steps!
The NHS has been overwhelmed with volunteers registering to help. Although new sign ups are currently on pause, here is some guidance for volunteer managers.
On behalf of everyone at Combined Healthcare, we would like to say Thank You to everyone who took part in the “Clap for the NHS” on Thursday 26th March. We will all get through this together…
The Purple All Stars have released this excellent “hand washing rap”. Learn how to wash your hands – All together now here we go!
Our Deputy Director of Medicines and MACE, Helen Sweeney, has issued advice to community-based prescribers
prescriptions should continue to be issued for the standard 28 day duration for outpatient prescriptions
prescribers may wish to provide vulnerable patients with an additional post-dated prescription that family/friends may collect on their behalf
The impact of the coronavirus pandemic in Staffordshire and Stoke-on–Trent has prompted the county’s public and emergency services to declare a major incident.
As part of our support to staff during the Coronavirus challenge, we provide regular updates, guidance and advice from our Executive Director of Operations, Jonathan O’Brien and our Chief Executive Peter Axon.
Recognising that many of them will now be working remotely or may not always be in a position to access the internal network or e-mails, we are making them available on our public website as well, so they are always accessible and available.