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This conference will focus on Adult Safeguarding – improving practice, decision making and outcomes in a health setting. Through national developments and practical case studies the conference will provide you with an essential guide to improving adult safeguarding in your service.
Safeguarding adults is a fundamental part of patient safety and wellbeing and the outcomes expected of the NHS.
There were an estimated 541,535 concerns of abuse raised during 2021-22, an increase of 9% on the previous year, which is slightly above the average annual growth rate per year for the previous four years (8% per year on average between 2016-17 and 2020-21)… The number of enquiries that commenced under Section 42 of the Care Act 2014 during the year increased by 6% to an estimated 161,925, following a similar decrease the previous year, and involved 129,685 individuals.
This conference will enable you to:
- Network with colleagues who are working to improve adult safeguarding practice in healthcare settings
- Learn from outstanding practice in improving outcomes in adult safeguarding
- Update your knowledge on Legal requirements and developments
- Develop your leadership skills in adult safeguarding
- Improve the way concerns are identified, reported and escalated
- Reflect on and improve decision making in adult safeguarding
- Identify key strategies for recognizing and safeguarding victims of domestic violence
- Ensure frontline staff understand the difference between safeguarding concerns and patient safety concerns, and when they may overlap
- Develop a strengths based approach to effective safeguarding practice when working with frail older adults, or adults with delirium
- Understand your role when working in partnership with local authorities on safeguarding investigations, Safeguarding Adults Reviews and developing your role on the Adult Safeguarding Board
- Improve Learning from concerns to ensure improvement
- Supports CPD professional development and acts as revalidation evidence. This course provides 5 Hrs training for CPD subject to peer group approval for revalidation purposes
100% of delegates at our last conference on this subject would recommend the conference to a colleague
