Care Home News

The Care Quality Commission has released a new document ‘working together to prevent and control infections’ which aims to prevent the cross spread of infection between hospitals and care homes.  The report suggests that improvements are needed through the chain of responsabilities between hospital and home, including better discharge information, inclusion of ambulance crews and [...]

The Department of Health is consulting on new guidance which required change due to provisions of the Health and Social Care act and setting up of the Care Quality Commission. The proposed changes impact care homes by changing the criteria that will be used by CQC to assess the ‘cleanliness and infection control’ through the [...]

This excellent article from Community Care provides detailed advice for care home owners on how to minimise the spread of swine flu.  They make the point that existing best practice around infection control is equaly applicable to swine flu.  Given that we might have 100,000 new infections per day by the end of August, homes [...]