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Room 106 Newstead Offices
Rushbank
Melrose
TD6 9DA
Email: bor.chst@borders.scot.nhs.uk
NHS Borders - Care Home Support Team (New hub in Development)
The Care Home Support Team (CHST) are new to the ECHO community and excited to be moving forward in facilitating expert sessions for case-based learning with Project ECHO, focusing on social care staff working within the care homes in the Borders.
“We will nurture strong, collaborative relationships to support the health and wellbeing of people living in care homes and by valuing the expertise of those who work in care homes, we will empower them to deliver safe, equitable, person centre care”
Why did we join ECHO?
The area served by NHS Borders is one that is large in geography with a significant rural population. Project ECHO provides us with a method to effectively provide education and networking opportunities to social care staff working in the area regardless of where participants are in the region. These sessions also support the development of relationships and collaborative learning which is very valuable.
The team;
Lynne Pryde (Lead Nurse for Care Homes)
Fiona Hamilton (Senior Nurse)
Michelle Laidlaw (Senior Nurse)
Lynsie Murray (Clinical Educator)
Carey Liversedge (Clinical Educator)
Current and planned work
We are just about to embark on our first series of ECHO sessions, this will be a group 4 sessions relating to issues faced by staff working in care homes as a part of the broader My Health, My Care, My Home strategy developed by the Scottish Government. These sessions follow the successful series previously run in 3 other areas across Scotland.