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BEMS is pleased to be sponsoring the Humble Health Conference again in 2024! Last year’s event saw more than 100 people attend and the feedback was unanimously positive. 
 
By sponsoring this event BEMS is helping to support pioneering health professionals to connect, teach and inspire attendees in holistic approaches to optimise health and performance. 

Two very successful Health and Wellbeing events took place in January at the assisted living facility, Pennard Court in Twerton.  These were set up as a collaboration between St Michael’s Surgery, the Public Health team, B&NES vaccination team, and The Active Way.
 
The sessions offered a range of services to those residing on site who may be visually impaired, deaf, and have learning disabilities. The aim was to encourage the uptake of vaccinations, cancer screening, learning disability health checks and healthy lifestyle advice in a safe and welcoming environment. Across both events, many vaccinations and health checks were completed, along with cancer screening arranged.

Following very positive staff and patient feedback, the team are evaluating future work at Pennard Court and other Learning Disability Care Homes.

Thank you to all those who supported these fantastic events.

Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire Integrated Care Board Executive Team members talk about the most positive changes they have noticed over the past twelve months 

Liina Hathornthwaite, BEMS Cancer Care Review Nurse, recently took to the airwaves to share her expertise and insights in a radio interview on local radio station Somer Valley FM. The interview provided the opportunity for Liina to share her experience, knowledge, and hope for the future of cancer care in B&NES. 

Are you looking to turn your life experience and caring nature into a great new career in health or social care?

Join the NHS family and help care for the people in your community by working as a Health Care Assistant. Supporting people with their physical health, mental health or learning disability means you could make a real difference to their lives.

Enhanced Access and Urgent Treatment Centre – we are recruiting for sessional GPs!  

Interested in sessional hours? Join us for an informative webinar which covers everything you need to know about working in our Enhanced Access and Urgent Treatment Centre services.  

The new 'Warm Welcome' package will see council libraries offering information, and signposting local resources, for those struggling with soaring energy bills.

Libraries will host 'Hublets' - accessible computer tablets for residents to access council services from the library, as well as curating an online map and directory of local organisations that can offer help and support.

BEMS have been asked to carry out COVID vaccinations for a cohort of housebound patients in BaNES. This program is due to go live at the start of October and will run for three months until the end of December. We are still in the early stages of mobilising the service but plans are in place to run this during the day Monday - Friday. Vaccinators will be supported by local volunteer drivers, who will transport the vaccinators to each patients home, to carry out the vaccination. 

Exciting conference for Practices Nurses in BSW is happening next month. The Training Hub funded and organised event is taking place on Wednesday 28th September in Wooten Basset. Register your interest here.  

We are proud to have received another positive Quality Account for our achievements and commitment to providing high quality care to those who used our services during 2021-22 View the full report here

Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire Integrated Care Board came into being at one minute past midnight on Friday 1 July, following a successful transition from the region’s former Clinical Commissioning Group.

A day of celebrating at The Best Western Centurion Hotel for nursing in the community across BANES. We have been lucky to receive funding from BSW Training Hub to help make this happen. We have worked alongside HCRG Care Group and Dorothy House to help celebrate nursing and promote integrated working amongst us all to ensure the best patient care across our locality. 

MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS WEEK

We are excited to be working with HCRG Care Group and Dorothy House to host a BSW Training Hub funded community nurse conference This will be a celebratory event, to recognise the amazing work happening and to encourage further integration within our nursing community.

BEMS is thrilled to announce that we have recently been awarded contract extensions for three of our core clinical services: Community Dermatology, Community DVT and the Fracture & Soft Tissue Injury Service. 

The Community Dermatology Service has been extended for five years, with the option to extend for a further two years, taking us to 31st March 2029.

The Community DVT Service has been extended for five years, with the option to extend for a further two years, taking us to 31st March 2029.

The Fracture & Soft Tissue Injury Service has been extended for two years, taking us to 31st March 2024. 

We are delighted to be able to continue to provide these crucial services to the population of BANES, and thank all of you and your staff for referring patients into these services and to the teams for making this possible! 

Looking after our primary care people – Health and wellbeing engagement event

6 April 2022 5:00pm – 6:30pmBST (+01:00)

Virtual (Microsoft Teams)

FREE

https://www.events.england.nhs.uk/events/looking-after-our-primary-care-people---health-and-wellbeing-engagement-event-april

BEMS is continuing to expand the Home Visiting Service, recruiting additional Bank Nursing staff and retaining a Bank GP service. This allows us to cover expected annual leave, as well as consistently increase provision to all areas. 

From April 1st 2022, the BEMS Referral Support Service will be joining the other RSS organisations from across BSW, to form one centralised service. Staff will be employed by the BSW Clinical Commissioning Group, whilst retaining their local teams to manage referrals for BaNES, Swindon and Wiltshire respectively. 

BEMS is aware that Practices in BaNES are being asked to implement Freedom to Speak Up Guardians, to support the outcomes of the Freedom to Speak Up review published in 2015.

 We would like to formally offer Practices the service of being your named Freedom to Speak Up Guardian. This service includes a named BEMS individual, who has undertaken the necessary National Guardian Office training and been given special responsibility and training in dealing with Speaking Up concerns.

BEMS has been running the Paediatric Urgent Service Hub (PUSH) since the beginning of January 2022, and to date has seen a total of 128 patients. We want to thank our host sites and members of the PUSH team that helped us to mobilise and staff this service in such a short timeframe. 

We are proud to announce we are supporting the roll out of a Paediatric Urgent Service Hub in BANES to reduce pressures on primary & secondary care. See our poster for further info on this service We are proud to be assisting young patients in our locality

The Department of Health and Social Care have launched another aspect of the Better Health campaign. The idea being to support a healthier lifestyle.