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Supplementary guidance for older people with dementia
- Author:
- CARE STANDARDS INSPECTORATE FOR WALES
- Publisher:
- Care Standards Inspectorate for Wales
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 21p.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
This supplementary guidance to the National Minimum Standards for Care Homes for Older People provides additional advice to inspectors when interpreting the relevant standards for people with dementia. It is not the intention of this guidance to replace or amend any particular standard. It does however take into account the Care Standards Act, associated regulations, NMS and relevant good practice literature.
National audit of intermediate care 2012
- Author:
- NHS BENCHMARKING NETWORK
- Publisher:
- NHS Benchmarking Network
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 70p.
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
The National Audit of Intermediate Care was launched in November 2011 as a partnership project which includes the Royal College of Nursing. The audit aims to take a whole system view of the effectiveness of intermediate care services and the contribution made to demand management across health and social care systems in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The audit highlights wide variation in service models being used nationally with differences evident in the extent of multiagency integration, the scale of services provided, and how intermediate care sits within the full range of health and community services, in each local health economy. People with dementia are not systematically excluded from intermediate care but may be under represented amongst intermediate care service users. The cost of an intermediate care bed day reported by commissioners ranged from an average of £136 in residential care homes to an average of £252 per bed day in community hospitals. Also, mental health workers are rarely included in the establishment of intermediate care teams.
Joint HIW / CSSIW fundamental review of the national service framework (NSF) for older people in Wales
- Authors:
- HEALTHCARE INSPECTORATE WALES, CARE AND SOCIAL SERVICES INSPECTORATE WALES
- Publisher:
- Healthcare Inspectorate Wales; Care and Social Services Inspectorate Wales
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 18p.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
This document sets out the rationale for the planned review of the National Service Framework (NSF) for Older People in Wales, the process undertaken for scoping the review and the initial approach and timescales for delivery. The review will be delivered jointly by the Healthcare Inspectorate Wales (HIW) and the Care and Social Services Inspectorate for Wales (CSSIW).
Report of the national audit of continence care for older people (65 years and above) in England, Wales and N. Ireland: summary report
- Authors:
- WAGG Adrian, et al
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Physicians of London
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 6p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The purpose of this audit is to allow clinicians and those involved in managing continence to compare their services’ performance with evidence based quality standards (National Service Framework for Older People, Good Practice in Continence Services) against the other participants in the audit. This will allow variations in the standards of care between different Trusts, PCTs and care homes to be highlighted and hopefully lead to an improvement in the standard of care provided to older people with continence problems.
Using photography to understand change and continuity in the history of residential care for older people
- Authors:
- ROLPH Sheena, JOHNSON Julia, SMITH Randall
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 12(5), December 2009, pp.421-439.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Between 1957 and 1961 British sociologist, Peter Townsend, visited173 local authority, voluntary and privately owned residential care homes for older people across England and Wales. As part of his research he took 100 photographs 33 of which are included in his book The Last Refuge. His original data are now deposited in the National Social Policy and Social Change Archive at the University of Essex. The authors have undertaken research, funded by the ESRC, revisiting Townsend’s work and some of the homes he studied in order to conduct an overtime comparison. In this paper the authors contextualise and analyse Townsend’s use of photographs, and explore the impact of his approach on their research, and the issues it raised for their photography. They argue that, although Townsend did not analyse his photographs, they were significant data for use in his arguments critiquing residential care. However they were a product of a different socio-historical context to that of the present study and as such posed considerable ethical and practical challenges when the authors attempted to use this aspect of his methodology for an overtime comparison. For example the authors’ freedom to photograph at will was heavily curtailed by issues of permission and consent. The authors argue that, despite the constraints, photography was an important part of their methodology, enabling comparisons and illuminating historical patterns in residential care for older people.
Older people with dementia: handbook for CSSIW inspectors on implementing regulations and national minimum standards in care homes
- Author:
- CARE AND SOCIAL SERVICES INSPECTORATE WALES
- Publisher:
- Care and Social Services Inspectorate Wales
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 50p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
This handbook provides advice to inspectors on implementing regulations and national minimum standards in relation to care homes for people with dementia. The document gives increasing emphasis to the identification of good practice in relation to service users’ well-being and makes reference to the model of Person Centred Care.
Commissioner for Older People in Wales draft regulations
- Author:
- WALES. Welsh Assembly Government
- Publisher:
- Wales. Welsh Assembly Government
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 2p.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
Following its successful passage through Parliament the Commissioner for Older People (Wales) Act 2006 received Royal Assent on 25th July. The Act empowers the Assembly to establish an independent Commissioner with a wide range of powers to help ensure that the interests of older people in Wales, who are aged 60 or over, are safeguarded and promoted and that services are improved to meet their needs. The Commissioner will be able to act as a source of information, advocacy and support for older people, to encourage best practice in their treatment and to examine individual cases (where wider issues of principle are involved.) He or she will also be able to review the effect on older people in Wales of the discharge of, proposed discharge, or failure to discharge, functions by certain public bodies. These bodies will include the Welsh Assembly Government, local authorities, fire and rescue authorities, Local Health Boards, NHS Trusts, and further and higher education corporations. The overall aim is to ensure that the work of public bodies has a positive impact on, and takes account of, the needs of older people.
National minimum standards for care homes for older people: supplementary guidance: visual impairment
- Authors:
- CARE STANDARDS INSPECTORATE FOR WALES, WALES COUNCIL FOR THE BLIND
- Publisher:
- Care Standards Inspectorate for Wales
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 20p.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
The following guidance has been produced to supplement regulations and national minimum standards to provide additional advice to inspectors and providers. The guidance - visual impairment was developed jointly between the Wales Council for the Blind and CSIW.
Guidance for CSIW staff on applying the national minimum standards (physical standards) to existing care homes for older people and younger adults
- Author:
- CARE STANDARDS INSPECTORATE FOR WALES
- Publisher:
- Care Standards Inspectorate for Wales
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 13p.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
The regulatory requirements for Care Homes are set out in the Care Homes (Wales) Regulations 2002 and under the Care Standards Act. Decisions of CSIW must be justified by reference to the Regulations and must take the national minimum standards into account. It is necessary to explore the meaning of “taking into account” the national minimum standards. The national minimum standards were introduced to bring increased consistency into regulatory practice with the overall aim of improving protection and quality of life for service users. Section 23 of the Care Standards Act 2000 requires that the CSIW takes into account the national minimum standards when making regulatory decisions.
National minimum standards for care homes for older people (revised March 2004)
- Author:
- WALES. Welsh Assembly Government
- Publisher:
- Wales. Welsh Assembly Government
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 35p.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
- Edition:
- Rev. ed.
This document sets out National Minimum Standards for Care Homes for Older People issued by the Welsh Assembly Government under section 23 of the Care Standards Act 2000 (CSA). These standards will be used by the Assembly’s Care Standards Inspectorate for Wales (CSIW) when determining whether these care homes are providing adequate care, meeting the needs of the persons who live there and otherwise being carried on in accordance with regulatory requirements. The Welsh Assembly Government will keep the standards under review, and may publish amended standards as appropriate.