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Residential and nursing care homes

Find information about how to do business with the Council, including the Market Position Statement, as well as tools and templates, policy, guidance and more.

South West Care Home Winter Resource Pack

NHS England have created a care home winter resource pack. The purpose of this resource pack is to provide guidance and useful links to information for Care Homes in the South West. The information is aligned with national guidance, including good practice which can be embedded locally by care providers.

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Are you interested in getting into business with Devon County Council? Take a look at current contract opportunities and see what our Market Position Statement (MPS) says about future development in this area.

Support for Residential and nursing care homes

Adult oral health in care homes toolkit

7 December 2024

Public Health England and stakeholders have produced the toolkit to support care homes and commissioners to implement the NICE guideline (NG48): Oral health for adults in care homes. The toolkit also contains useful links for care home staff, residents, their families and friends to support good oral health and reduce oral health inequalities.

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Information needed to find the missing (The Herbert Protocol)

21 July 2024

The Herbert Protocol encourages carers or family members of adults living with dementia to collate information on those who are vulnerable onto a form, know as the Herbert Protocol form, that can be given to the police if they go missing.

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Preventing Exploitation Toolkit

21 July 2024

The Safer Devon Partnership has developed an online preventing exploitation toolkit to tackle the threat of exploitation. This toolkit will help frontline colleagues learn about, identify and report exploitation happening in Devon and the surrounding area. The toolkit’s audience consists of anyone who, through their paid or voluntary work, may encounter individuals who are vulnerable Continue reading…

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Safeguarding Adult Concern Referral Form

30 April 2024

Devon County Council and the Torbay and Devon Safeguarding Adults Partnership (TDSAP) have a new Safeguarding Adult Concern Referral Form. Referrers are encouraged to use the form to raise a safeguarding adult concern with the local authority. The form is available on the TDSAP website. The form arises from national developments and local stakeholder engagement Continue reading…

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Advanced Care Planning Template

17 April 2024

Planning Ahead for End of Life If you would like to support individuals you are caring for who may have a terminal illness or are approaching the end of their life make arrangements for their future care. This advanced care planning booklet can help with this as it gives the individual the opportunity to think and Continue reading…

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Infection, Prevention and Control (IPC) Compliance Assessment Tool

21 March 2024

This compliance assessment is a simple tool which has been developed using the most recent information from the CQC and others. It will help you know how well you are doing, identify areas in which you need to improve and bring the guidance together into one place.

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Useful resource on how to reduce the risk of falls

10 January 2024

Information for care providers: React To Falls : Training resources for care home staff The Stop Fall App (includes free downloadable risk factors, assessments, exercises and interventions) Falls Response Governance Framework for NHS Ambulance Trusts – aace.org.uk (outlines responsibility of a care provider when a fall occurs in a residential setting). Information for the public, Continue reading…

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COVID Oximetry@home service

7 December 2020

CO@h is a service for adults likely to experience worsening or life-threatening hypoxia (low oxygen levels in blood) and it is available for people in care homes and their own homes. This information contains a quick reference guide and monitoring log sheet.

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Using community equipment safely

28 July 2020

Provider staff must immediately notify a Health or Social Care professional, where they may be needing to use items of equipment with a client, in a manner for which it was not designed. Do not put excessive force on items of community equipment, or use it in any way which would put the client’s or Continue reading…

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Instructions to ensure safe hoisting of service users and safe use of gantry hoists

28 July 2020

Always ensure that when using any hoist to transfer a service user, the hoist straps and lifting motor are in a position vertically above the service user, using slide sheets or bed to reposition them prior to lifting/lowering. If the hoist straps and motor are not positioned vertically above the service user, it will cause Continue reading…

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Guidance regarding adjustment of community equipment

28 July 2020

Guidance – Adjustment of Community Equipment 19 Feb 2018 This guidance is issued in response to a serious incident relating to community equipment that was recently brought to the attention of the Community Equipment Service Commissioners. It is important to share the learning from this incident. Find below new guidance that will be issued to Continue reading…

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