News Marie Curie partners with Hallmark to


implement end of life care strategy make a Hallmark care home their home and this partnership with Marie Curie will ensure this outstanding care extends throughout a resident’s life journey,” said Hallmark care quality governance and compliance director Julie Rayner. “Not only will our teams be benefitting from


Marie Curie is to work with Hallmark Care Homes to implement the provider’s end of life care strategy. Through this collaboration, Marie Curie


will provide training in end of life awareness, communication, coping strategies, symptom management and care planning to 2,100 Hallmark employees. To support the strategy Marie Curie is


providing mentorship, clinical supervision and training in counselling and leadership support for the Hallmark Care Homes End of Life Care Champions. Hallmark will meanwhile support Marie


Curie to hone its resources for a care home audience and in the progression of relevant research to improve end-of-life care outcomes for older people. The care provider said the pandemic


had accelerated a pre-existing trend for an increasing number of deaths in a care home setting. A 2017 Public Health England review found


that, between 2011 and 2017, the number of deaths in care homes increased by 20 per cent. With the Office of National Statistics


predicting the number of persons aged 85- plus to double between 2018 and 2043, that demand for residential care is expected to grow substantially. This, said Hallmark, highlights a need for


expert support for people working with care home residents. “Hallmark is well-known for the quality of care provided to all residents who chose to


the high-quality training provided by Marie Curie, but our End of Life Care Champions will be mentored by Marie Curie nurses and their reflective practice will be supported by regular action learning sets, again being facilitated by the Marie Curie team,” she added. The work with Marie Curie has been


developing virtually over the last nine months and the planned timetable of training and knowledge exchange will be out to Hallmark employees by the end of March. Eamon O’Kane, deputy director, devolved


nations and national programmes at Marie Curie, said: “Covid-19 has increased the pressures on care workers to support both residents and families in very challenging circumstances. Care homes are supporting residents with end of life care needs now more than ever and evidence shows that over a third of people who die in care homes are temporary residents transferred for end of life care. “Marie Curie have decades of experience


to share in the provision of direct care at end of life and we know we can make greater impact by working with a wider network of stakeholders who are ideally placed to help people at end of life.”


Carer death rate almost three times national average - ONS


Deaths involving Covid-19 among social care workers in England and Wales between March and December were almost three times higher than the general working age population, according to data published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). A total of 469 Covid-related deaths


among social care workers were registered between 9 March and 28 December 2020, with rates of 79.0 deaths per 100,000 males (150 deaths) and 35.9 deaths per 100,000 females (319 deaths). That compared to the age-


standardised mortality rate of death involving Covid of 31.4 deaths per 100,000 men aged 20 to 64 years (5,128 deaths) and 16.8 deaths per 100,000 women (2,833 deaths). For its social care workforce analysis,


ONS included occupations such as care workers and home carers, which accounted for most of the deaths (347 out of 469 deaths, or 74 per cent), social workers, managers of residential care institutions, and care escorts. Of the individual occupations, care


workers and home carers (men and women) and social workers (women only) had significantly raised rates. Almost three in four of the deaths


involving Covid-19 in social care occupations (347 out of 469 deaths; 74 per cent) were in care workers and home carers, with 109.9 deaths per 100,000 males (107 deaths) and 47.1 deaths per 100,000 females (240 deaths). ONS head of health analysis and


life events Ben Humberstone said the analysis shows that jobs with regular exposure to Covid-19 and those working in close proximity to others “continue to have higher Covid-19 death rates when compared with the rest of the working age.”


Adept Care Homes has finalised a multimillion pound deal with Virgin Money- owned Yorkshire Bank to re-finance the business and support the development of an 84-bed care home in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire.


12 “Men continue to have higher rates


of death than women, making up nearly two thirds of these deaths,” he added.


www.thecarehomeenvironment.com • March 2021


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