Care Home – Useful Information

Care Homes Aligned to our Primary Care Network

Practice Care home(s) Care
Myrtle Group Practice Brimstage Manor Nursing Home Nursing / EMI
  Hazelwell Nursing Home Nursing
  Westwood Hall Nursing Home Nursing
  Heathermount Care Home Residential
  The Croft Res Care Home Residential / EMI
 
West Wirral Group Practice Fairfield Nursing Home Nursing
  Grange Nursing Home Nursing
  Ridgewood Court Care Home Residential/ EMI
  Trepassey Care Home Residential
 
Upton Group Practice Woodheath Care Home Nursing / Residential
  Apple House EMI
 
Marine Lake Medical Practice Anchorage Care Home Nursing / Residential /EMI
  Caldy Manor Care Home Residential
  Cherryhurst Residential Home Specialist residential care home
  Hilbre House Residential Home Residential
  Hoylake Cottage Care Home Nursing /Residential/EMI
  Lear House Residential Home Residential
  Meols Drive Care Home with Nursing LD assisted living
  Red Rocks Nursing Home Nursing
  Riversdale Care Home Residential
  Sandtoft Residential Home Residential
  The Dales Residential Home Residential/EMI
  Westhaven Nursing Care Home Nursing / Residential
  The Old Garden Care Home Nursing / Residential/EMI
  The Court Care Home Residential/EMI
  The Lodge Care Home Residential
 

Publications of interest for care home staff

Enhanced Health in Care Homes: A guide for care homes – Care Provider Alliance

Oral Health

NICE (NG48). Oral health for adults in care homes

This guideline covers oral health, including dental health and daily mouth care, for adults in care homes. The aim is to maintain and improve their oral health and ensure timely access to dental treatment.

https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng48

NICE (QS151). Oral health in care homes

This quality standard covers oral health, including dental health and daily mouth care, for adults in care homes (with and without nursing provision). It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.

https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/qs151

NICE. Improving oral health for adults in care homes

A quick guide for care home managers.

https://www.nice.org.uk/about/nice-communities/social-care/quick-guides/improving-oral-health-for-adults-in-care-homes

Care Quality Commission. Smiling matters: oral health care in care homes

This report was carried out by CQC to find out how care home and dental providers were implementing NICE (NG48) Oral health for adults in care homes. CQC dental inspectors attended 100 routine planned inspections of care homes alongside inspectors from adult social care team. They found that too many people living in care homes are not being supported to maintain and improve their oral health. The report includes numerous recommendations to improve the oral health of care home residents, including the implementation of the NICE guideline Oral health for adults in care homes.

https://www.cqc.org.uk/publications/major-report/smiling-matters-oral-health-care-care-homes

NHS England and NHS Improvement. NHS Long Term Plan

Supporting residents to have good oral health, is mentioned in 1.15 (on page 16) ‘We will upgrade NHS support to all care home residents who would benefit by 2023/24, with the EHCH model rolled out across the whole country’

https://www.longtermplan.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/nhs-long-term-plan-version-1.2.pdf

Public Health England: Adult oral health: applying All Our Health Evidence and guidance to help healthcare professionals improve dental health in adults

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/adult-oral-health-applying-all-our-health

Care home charter for medicines

The Patients Association has produced a leaflet that supports the implementation of recommendations in the NICE guidelines on managing medicines in care homes and oral health for adults in care homes. It also supports statements 5 and 6 in the NICE quality standard on medicines management in care homes and statement 3 in the NICE quality standard on oral health in care homes.

https://www.bgs.org.uk/resources/the-patients-association-care-home-charter

 

Healthwatch

What’s it like to live in a care home? Findings from the Healthwatch network

Between January 2016 and April 2017, local Healthwatch staff and volunteers across England visited 197 care homes across 63 different local authority areas to find out what day to day life is really like for many of those living in care homes. Their report provides a snapshot of what it’s like to live in residential care.

https://www.healthwatch.co.uk/report/2017-08-10/whats-it-live-care-home-findings-healthwatch-network