Reading and Watching

Iriss is a charitable company that promotes positive outcomes for the people who use Scotland's social services, by enhancing the capacity and capability of the social services workforce, to access and make use of knowledge and research for service innovation and improvement.

Iriss uses three approaches in the work that they do:

We inform - create conditions for effective information sharing
We translate and facilitate - support individuals and groups to make use of evidence
We co-create - work with communities to test out ideas and create conditions for embedding change

CLICK HERE to be taken to the Iriss website or have a look below for some specific reading/watching material you might find interesting and inspiring!

Iriss Insights are a wide variety of topics discussed in these evidence summaries including Achieving effective supervision, Prison leavers and homelessness, Peer support roles in mental health services and Extending the housing options for older people.

They outline the evidence and discuss the potential implications for the social services.

Why not check them out!

Personalisation and Self Directed Support

Personalisation and Self Directed Support is about working with individuals to develop a personalised support plan for the future. This approach will give individuals more choice, flexibility and control over how their support is provided, and allow them to live an independent and fulfilling life in their local communities.

For more information about Personalisation and Self Directed Support, click on the following information below:

Pilotlight co-designed seven pathways to self-directed support focusing on mental health, risk, self-employment, young people in transition, older people in transition, people with younger onset dementia and people in recovery from substance misuse.

You can also access resources to enable insight and consider and how you use Self Directed support to influence how you live, care or work:

SDS Scotland

SDS Scotland - Values and Principles

My Support, My Choice: User experiences of Self Directed Support in Scotland

My Support, My Choice: User experience of Self Directed Support in Scotland, Easy Read

A guide to the SDS (Scotland) Act 2013

Self Directed Support (Scotland) - Practitioners Guidance

Self Directed Support - A guide for Carers

IRISS has shared some Insights about Self Directed Support: Ten Years on

Health Related Information

CHRONIC PAIN

Chronic or persistent pain is commonly defined as any pain which lasts more than 12 weeks whereas acute pain is the normal sensation which alerts us to an injury or illness. Chronic pain affects 1 in 5 people in Scotland and can affect all ages and all parts of the body.

When a person is suffering with chronic pain, it can affect every aspect of their life. It is important that we understand chronic pain and how it affects people. The following short educational resources are very useful

Understanding pain in less than 5 minutes, and what to do about it! This is particularly useful for Practitioners as it explains about pain and provides background information and practical steps to manage chronic pain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_3phB93rvI

Chronic Pain Toolkit – This provides 12 handy tips and tools to support practitioners and individuals to manage persistent pain. https://youtu.be/pbqrM8W7D48

12 tips to understand self pain management

Acceptance
Building a support team
Pacing
Prioritising
Setting Goals
Be Patient
Relaxation
Exercising
Track Progress
Setback Plans
Team Work
Daily Practice

Locally we are creating chronic pain management pathways and signposting individuals to services which can support the management of their pain. The services below can help with this:

Live Active Leisure

Active Communities, Wellbeing Coordinator

Ian Hutton

ihutton@liveactive.co.uk

01738 454629

Marcin Luszcz

mjluszcz@liveactive.co.uk

01738 454650

Social Prescriber/Healthy Communities

South Locality
Strathearn and Strathallan	Kinross-shire, Bridge of Earn, Abernethy
Marisa Carradice MCarradice@pkc.gov.uk 01764 657823	Shona Fowler shonafowler@nhs.net 07896 280843
North Locality
Strathmore to Balbeggie	Strathtay, Highland from Luncarty
Kim MacBain KMacbain@pkc.gov.uk 01250 871934	Audra Webster audrawebster@nhs.net 07896280852
Perth
Erin Martin Erinmartin@pkc.gov.uk 01738 475708	Ashleigh Henderson ashleigh.henderson@nhs.net 07980 951728

PRESSURE ULCER PREVENTION

Pressure ulcers are an unwanted complication of illness, severe physical disability or increasing frailty. ... Approximately 412,000 people are likely to develop a new pressure ulcer annually in the UK and this presents a significant burden on the provision of healthcare within the NHS. Pressure ulcers can happen to anyone at any age. The following link provides information on the prevention of pressure ulcers. It is useful for practitioners and also for the public.

5 Key Messages to prevent Pressure ulcers

Surface

Skin

Keep Moving

Incontinence

Nutrition and Hydration

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Syc-hByVGF0

A pressure ulcer website for care homes has been developed through the NHS Healthcare Improvement Scotland iHub, Perth & Kinross Health and Social Care Partnership have contributed towards this website. On this website there is a lot of really useful educational material on pressure ulcers, their prevention and treatment.

http://www.pressureulcer.scot/?page_id=7