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Care homes for older people guidance log
- Author:
- COMMISSION FOR SOCIAL CARE INSPECTION
- Publisher:
- Commission for Social Care Inspection
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 109p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Guidance logs (formerly known as precedent logs) are used by inspectors to apply the National Minimum Standards. Inspectors use the logs when queries arise about the interpretation of a particular standard, or where clarification is needed on how a particular aspect of a service should be inspected against the standards.
Key lines of regulatory assessment (KLORA): care homes for older people: draft
- Author:
- COMMISSION FOR SOCIAL CARE INSPECTION
- Publisher:
- Commission for Social Care Inspection
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 29p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Key Lines of Regulatory Assessment (KLORA) provide a guide to benchmark the judgement categories for each outcome group when assessing a care service. They will support inspectors with their judgement and help them to form an overview of the service. The KLORA have been developed in consultation with residents, providers of services and inspectors.
A fair contract with older people?: a special study of people’s experiences when finding a care home
- Author:
- COMMISSION FOR SOCIAL CARE INSPECTION
- Publisher:
- Commission for Social Care Inspection
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 96p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Whilst care homes are improving the information they give to prospective residents, advertised fees for places in the same care home can vary hugely, sometimes from £650 to £1,500 a week, without a clear explanation of why some people pay more than others and what their money will buy. The report also showed that sometimes people paying for their own care can subsidise those people paid for by the local council, where councils negotiate lower rates. In areas without enough care services to meet demand, even those people moving into care homes who are funded by the council can be asked to pay ‘top-up’ fees to cover higher charges – as many as 75% of homes in some areas required a ‘top-up’.
Joint inspection of services for older people in Greenwich: October 2005
- Authors:
- COMMISSION FOR HEALTHCARE AUDIT AND INSPECTION, AUDIT COMMISSION, COMMISSION FOR SOCIAL CARE INSPECTION
- Publisher:
- Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 51p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Joint inspection of older people's services in Dorset: October 2005
- Authors:
- COMMISSION FOR HEALTHCARE AUDIT AND INSPECTIONl, AUDIT COMMISSION, COMMISSION FOR SOCIAL CARE INSPECTION
- Publisher:
- Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 39p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Joint inspection of services for older people in Leicester: June 2005
- Authors:
- COMMISSION FOR SOCIAL CARE INSPECTION, AUDIT COMMISSION, HEALTHCARE COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 47p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Joint inspection of older people's services in Redcar and Cleveland: August 2005
- Authors:
- COMMISSION FOR SOCIAL CARE INSPECTION, AUDIT COMMISSION, HEALTHCARE COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 39p.
- Place of publication:
- London
See me, not just the dementia: understanding people's experiences of living in a care home: summary and electronic version of full report
- Author:
- COMMISSION FOR SOCIAL CARE INSPECTION
- Publisher:
- Commission for Social Care Inspection
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 16p., CD ROM
- Place of publication:
- London
A new way of inspecting, used by CSCI inspectors for the first time, focuses on the needs of people who cannot easily communicate and gets under the skin of the real relationship between staff and the people they care for. Using the new technique, inspectors observed the interactions between staff and people with dementia in 100 care homes across England. People with dementia are often unable to communicate easily. This new way of inspecting, developed in partnership with the University of Bradford, is unique, and looks beyond the surface of routine care practice to understand people’s emotional well-being, and how staff relate to them.
See me, not just the dementia: understanding people's experiences of living in a care home
- Author:
- COMMISSION FOR SOCIAL CARE INSPECTION
- Publisher:
- Commission for Social Care Inspection
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 68p.
- Place of publication:
- London
A new way of inspecting, used by CSCI inspectors for the first time, focuses on the needs of people who cannot easily communicate and gets under the skin of the real relationship between staff and the people they care for. Using the new technique, inspectors observed the interactions between staff and people with dementia in 100 care homes across England. People with dementia are often unable to communicate easily. This new way of inspecting, developed in partnership with the University of Bradford, is unique, and looks beyond the surface of routine care practice to understand people’s emotional well-being, and how staff relate to them.
Handled with care?: managing medication for residents of care homes and children's homes: a follow up study
- Author:
- COMMISSION FOR SOCIAL CARE INSPECTION
- Publisher:
- Commission for Social Care Inspection
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 44p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The evidence from this report is that homes are still not placing enough importance on this critical area of care. In March 2004, the National Care Standards Commission (NCSC), a predecessor organisation to CSCI, reported on homes’ performance on managing medication. The report identified significant deficiencies in homes’ performance and practice and was instrumental in focusing attention on the need for homes to take urgent remedial action. The key areas of poor performance identified in the NCSC report were; wrong medication being given to residents; poor recording of medicines received and administered; medicines being inappropriately handled by unqualified staff; medicines being stored inappropriately. The report shows that there has been some slight improvement in performance overall, with the exception of nursing homes for older people. But the rate of improvement in such a crucial area of care has been disappointingly slow, with nearly half the care homes for older people and younger adults, providing 210,000 places for residents, still not meeting the minimum standard relating to medication. The primary responsibility for this failure rests with the homes themselves.