Care Home Nurses Information Hub

This page will be updated periodically. If you see a document or link that may be useful, or which needs updating, please let us know.

General Information

• IMPACT – Election briefing June 2024
• King’s Fund – Health and Care 2024 – General Election
• Adult Social Care in England, monthly statistics: June 2024
• NHS England » Case study: urgent community response, virtual ward and care home teams work together to enable people to stay at home – Cheshire West
• PPE visual guide poster
• Ambitions for Change: Improving Healthcare in Care Homes report by the British Geriatric Society.

Dementia

• Video technology to support monitoring of care home residents in Wales (press release April 2022)
• Meeting the needs of people with dementia living in care homes video
• HIN activities resources during COVID-19
• Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLs) COVID 19 guidance
• British Geriatric Society short guide dementia and COVID-19
• The Dementia surveillance factsheet has been updated with March 2024 data. It shows the disparities across England in relation to the diagnosis of people with dementia and the care they receive.
• Dementia profile updates (gov.uk) – this interactive tool is designed to improve the availability and accessibility of information on dementia. The profile is structured around the NHS England well pathway for dementia with indicators arranged into 5 data domains:

• • the pathway on a page
  • preventing well
  • diagnosing well and prevalence
  • living well and supporting well
  • dying well.

Infection Prevention and Control

• National infection prevention and control manual (NIPCM) for England
• PPE guide for non-aerosol generating procedures (February 2024)
• Infection prevention and control in adult social care settings (March 2024)
• Infection prevention and control(IPC) in adult social care: acute respiratory infection (ARI) (March 2024)
• Supporting safer visiting in care homes during infectious illness outbreaks (April 2024).

Covid-19

• QNI Long Nurse Group Network.

Sepsis

• Symptoms of Sepsis – NHS  
• Sepsis – World Health Organisation.

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