Time to listen In care homes: Dignity and nutrition inspection programme 2012
More than 400,000 people in England live in residential care and their care requirements are becoming increasingly more complex. At the same time, the population of older people continues to grow.
We have already expressed our concerns about the extent to which care services treat older people with dignity and respect and in meeting their nutritional needs – both generally across health and social care in our 2011/12 State of Care report1 and specifically in NHS hospitals in our 2011 inspection programme report.
In 2012, we carried out two further inspection programmes looking at dignity and nutrition issues for older people. The first programme inspected 50 acute and mental health hospitals. Most of these had not been inspected in the 2011 programme; some were re-inspections of a few hospitals where we had indentified concerns in the previous year. We have published a national report on these inspections at the same time as this report.
Our second programme, between April and October 2012, looked at dignity and nutrition issues for older people living in 500 care homes across England, covering both homes that provide nursing care and those that do not. We have published a report on our website for each of the 500 homes inspected. This national report describes our overall findings from the programme and includes examples of what is working well and improvements needed.
Published : 20th March 2013
Publisher : Care Quality Commission [ More From This Publisher ]
Rights : Care Quality Commission
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