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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!"
COVID-19 advice is now available from Combined Healthcare in Easy Read, Large Print, Audio and BSL formats.
The advice – all of which has been approved by Public Health England – includes the following:
- hand washing advice posters in Easy Read and Large Print formats
- audio version of the hand washing advice
- Easy Read Guide to Coronavirus
- video on Coronavirus Essential Advice – British Sign Language
- video on Home Isolation Advice For Those With Symptoms – British Sign Language
- video on Coronavirus – Spot The Signs – British Sign Language
- video on How to use the NHS – British Sign Language
- video on Face Touching – British Sign Language
More will be added as they become available.
To access these resources click here
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.
On 24th March, our Chief Executive, Peter Axon, sent a message to all Combined Healthcare employees
How coronavirus is spread
Because it’s a new illness, we do not know exactly how coronavirus spreads from person to person.
Similar viruses are spread in cough droplets.
It’s very unlikely it can be spread through things like packages or food.
How to avoid catching or spreading coronavirus
Do
wash your hands with soap and water often – do this for at least 20 seconds
always wash your hands when you get home or into work
use hand sanitiser gel if soap and water are not available
cover your mouth and nose with a tissue or your sleeve (not your hands) when you cough or sneeze
put used tissues in the bin immediately and wash your hands afterwards
try to avoid close contact with people who are unwell
Don’t
- do not touch your eyes, nose or mouth if your hands are not clean