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Category:	COVID-19
Date:	28th January 2021

COVID-19 Regional Action Plan for the NI Care Home Sector

The Health and Social Care Board is continuing to work closely with the Public Health Agency supporting the difficulties that COVID-19 presents for care homes.

We have worked together and developed a further plan (September 2020) in preparation for a second COVID-19 surge which we are now implementing as we move into the winter months and face further potential difficulties.

The objectives of this surge plan are:

• To reduce the number of outbreaks and the number individuals in each outbreak,
• To provide robust integrated Medical, Nursing, Social Care responses,
• To work in partnership with Care Homes and key stakeholders to ensure person centred care is delivered to all residents irrespective of whether they have COVID-19 or not.

View the COVID-19 Regional Action Plan for the NI Care Home Sector Surge Plan 02.

View Surge Plan 01 - Regional action plan for the NI care home sector (May 2020).

For further information on Covid-19, see below some useful links:

• https://www.publichealth.hscni.net/
• https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/campaigns/coronavirus-covid-19
• https://www.health-ni.gov.uk/
• https://www.nisra.gov.uk/statistics/ni-summary-statistics/coronavirus-covid-19-statistics
• https://www.rqia.org.uk/
• https://hscboard.hscni.net/coronavirus/