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Review of minimum care standards for nursing homes; report of stakeholder engagement exercises
- Author:
- NORTHERN IRELAND. Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety
- Publisher:
- Northern Ireland. Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 18
- Place of publication:
- Belfast
This report outlines the results of a series of stakeholder engagement exercises designed to canvass views on Minimum Care Standards for Nursing Homes and the proposed amendments. Nursing home providers, managers of registered nursing home and trust care managers took part in the exercises. Delegates were asked to discuss the positive and challenging aspects of the current standards; examine the format, style, language and tone of the standards and indicate their preferences for how a revised version might look; and identify the positive and challenging aspects of the new standards and whether they felt the standards would be achievable and effective. The draft revised standards set out the requirements for registration and inspection of nursing homes providers by the Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority to ensure a consistency of approach throughout Northern Ireland and ensure that residents and their families and carers, service providers and commissioners have a clear understanding of the minimum standards of care they can expect to receive and provide. (Edited publisher abstract)
Report on arrangements for ensuring the quality of care in homes for older people
- Author:
- NORTHERN IRELAND. Northern Ireland Assembly. Public Accounts Committee
- Publisher:
- Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland Assembly
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Place of publication:
- Belfast
The Public Accounts Committee met on 16 December 2010 to consider the Comptroller and Auditor General’s report “Arrangements for Ensuring the Quality of Care in Homes for Older People". This short report provides a summary of the 12 recommendations made by the Committee to ensure the quality of care in homes for older people. The findings of the Committee are discussed in further detail under the following headings: The pattern of care for older people, Promoting quality care in homes for older people, The role of inspection in overseeing the quality in care homes for older people, and Dealing with complaints about care homes for older people. The minutes of the proceedings, minutes of evidence and a list of witnesses are included as appendices.
National care standards: care homes for older people
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Government
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Government
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 66p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
- Edition:
- Rev ed.
The National Care Standards Committee was set up by the Scottish Government to develop national standards in collaboration with a number of working groups including service users and service providers. They are designed to be from the point of view of service users to help them to understand what they can expect from the service provider. They may also be of use to service providers to help them know what is expected of them. The standards in this publication cover care homes for older people. These services offer 24-hour care, 7 days a week, to older people. They provide accommodation together with nursing care, personal care and support. Older people may choose to stay in a care home permanently, or for regular planned short breaks. Staff should be able to cater for individual’s changing needs so they should not have to move if they become ill. The standards are grouped under 4 headings: before moving in; settling in; day-to-day life; and moving on.
Multi-agency inspection: collaborative working across services for older people in Forth Valley
- Author:
- SOCIAL WORK INSPECTION AGENCY
- Publisher:
- Social Work Inspection Agency
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 156p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This report gives an overview of collaborative working between health and social work services for older people in Forth Valley. It sets out the strengths and areas of good practice as well as identifying areas where improvements are needed. Older people in Forth Valley generally were pleased with the health and social work services they received and the way these services worked together. Carers were less satisfied with the support they received, although this is consistent with the way carers across Scotland feel.
Multi-agency inspection summary: collaborative working across services for older people in Forth Valley
- Author:
- SOCIAL WORK INSPECTION AGENCY
- Publisher:
- Social Work Inspection Agency
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 8p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
The Forth Valley inspection covered a wide range of services for older people - mainly health and social work. It focused on NHS Forth Valley, Clackmannanshire, Falkirk and Stirling Councils. It looked at the way that these services worked together to assist older people live as independently as possible. This leaflet summarises the key findings of the inspection. Examples of good services and positive collaborative working are presented.
Multi-agency inspection: collaborative working across services for older people in Tayside
- Author:
- SOCIAL WORK INSPECTION AGENCY
- Publisher:
- Social Work Inspection Agency
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 6p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Main findings of a multi-agency inspection of services for older people in Tayside are presented. Older people in Tayside were generally pleased with the services they received and the way these services worked together. Carers were less satisfied with the support they received, although this is consistent with the way carers across Scotland feel. There is one health board, NHS Tayside, and three councils, Angus, Dundee and Perth and Kinross. There were distinctive differences in the way that the three health and social work partnerships in Tayside provided services. There was no over-arching strategy for health services for older people.
Multi-agency inspection: collaborative working across services for older people in Tayside
- Author:
- SOCIAL WORK INSPECTION AGENCY
- Publisher:
- Social Work Inspection Agency
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 116p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This report gives an overview of collaborative working between health and social work services provided in Tayside (covering NHS Tayside, and Angus, Dundee City and Perth and Kinross Councils). It also sets out the strengths and areas of good practice as well as identifying areas where improvements are needed. There were distinctive differences in the way in which the three Tayside health and social work partnerships approached their strategic and operational responsibilities for services for older people, despite there being one health board, NHS Tayside.
The strategy for older people in Wales
- Author:
- WALES. National Assembly
- Publisher:
- Wales. National Assembly
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 39p.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
This Strategy is the product of extensive consultation, research and expert views about the lives of older people in Wales both now and in the future. The aims, objectives and more detailed programmes and projects reflect the findings of the report of the Advisory Group ‘When I’m 64…..and more’ published in May 2002 and over 100 responses to it. The Strategy recognises that: over the next 20 years demographic changes will significantly change the balance of the population and mean that future policies and programmes in Wales must reflect the needs of an ageing society; and there is a need to improve the quality, quantity and responsiveness of services for older people.
Homes are for living in: survey report on practical applications of homes are for living in and developments derived from it
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 86p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
Update of the 1989 publication, which was a model for evaluating quality of care and life experience in residential care homes for older people. The update is a survey of SSD's, voluntary and private agencies, research and educational establishments, providing information on how they had used 'Homes are for living in'.
Arrangements for ensuring the quality of care in homes for older people: report by the Comptroller and Auditor General
- Author:
- NORTHERN IRELAND AUDIT OFFICE
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 56p.
- Place of publication:
- Belfast
This report examines arrangements for ensuring the quality of care public and private sector residential homes for older people. The introduction outlines the demand and cost of residential care in Northern Ireland. The report then goes on to consider: the regulatory framework; the registration and inspection process, and the role of the Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority (RQIA); and approaches to dealing with complaints about the quality of care. Right of referral to NI’s Commissioner for Complaints, the role of the Patient and Client Council and proposals for an Older People’s Commissioner are discussed. As part of the examination, RQIA inspectors were accompanied on a small number of inspections, to gain a better understanding of the inspection process.