Support for care homes

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The ICB’s Care Homes Team works closely with care homes and providers to help improve the quality of care residents receive. The team help to support care home staff to ensure they are receiving the training they need and complying with CQC guidelines.

The Care Homes Team uses its experience and knowledge of clinical guidelines to ensure that patients within Suffolk and north east Essex get the care they need to live a long and happy life.

Please do get in touch if you have any questions.

Enhanced Health in Care Homes (EHCH)

The EHCH model supports proactive care that is centred on the needs of individual residents, their families and care home staff.

Infection Prevention and Control support for the Care Sector

Learn how you can implement good infection, prevention and control measures within your service.

Medicines in Care Homes

Mental Capacity Act

Resources to help you navigate Mental Capacity Act and Liberty Protection Safeguards.

My Care Choices and My Care Wishes (yellow folders)

The My Care Wishes Folder (yellow folder) helps individuals in Suffolk living with a long term or life limiting illness to plan for the care pathways that they want in place.

North East Essex Locality Care Home Hub

The Hub is a collaboration of partners working together to develop operational processes, plan safe, effective support and provide standardised information and guidance to nursing and residential care home teams.

ReSPECT

The Recommended Summary Plan for Emergency Care and Treatment (ReSPECT) process creates a summary of personalised recommendations for a person’s clinical care in a future emergency in which they do not have capacity to make or express choices.

Resources