Feedback from Successful RMN Relaunch Events
Mar 26, 2024
West Midlands Care Association recently organised the relaunch of our Registered Manager Networks in the Black Country, Herefordshire and Worcestershire, in partnership with Skills for Care and the chairpersons for each network (Aeon Anderson- Black Country/Sharon Childs & Lisa Bradley- Herefordshire/Mel Dawson- Worcestershire).
We held a series of events where approx. 100 Registered Managers and Deputies attended to network, share thoughts, and support one another.
Attendees witnessed presentations from some fantastic speakers including:-
- Social Ability
- Care Quality Commission
- Gravitas Medical Solutions
- Healthwatch Wolverhampton
- Judith Timmins - Compliance Coach
- Razi Group Ltd Robotic Pharmacy Services
These were also joined by our inspiring exhibitors:-
- Healthwatch Herefordshire
- Healthwatch Worcestershire
- National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR)
- Dance to Health
- EE (Energy Efficient) Homes
- Skills for Care
- WMCA Digital Social Care
- Proud to Care West Midlands
- Harrison Clark Rickerbys
- Herefordshire and Worcestershire ICS
- The Recovery College
Group discussion – networking lunch
- Splitting types of care services into breakout rooms, with their own keynote speaker each.
- Having a large slot in the meeting for pure networking with other managers.
- CQC’s consistent presence to enable to networks to ask the representative questions about important updates.
- Representation from the local authority to discuss fees and safeguarding questions.
- Representation from outstanding providers in the area to share ideas on how more services can be rated as outstanding.
- Consistent representation from Healthwatch to enable the relationship to develop more and for more colleagues to understand their role in ensuring good quality care throughout the sector.
Details of our June RMN events can be found here. We look forward to seeing everyone then!
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