Useful Information

Care Homes Aligned to our Primary Care Network

Practice	Care home(s)	Care
Heswall & Pensby	Brimstage Manor Nursing Home	Nursing / EMI
	Hazelwell Nursing Home	Nursing
	Westwood Hall Nursing Home	Nursing
	Heathermount Care Home	Residential
	The Croft Res Care Home	Residential / EMI
West Wirral GP	Fairfield Nursing Home	Nursing
	Grange Nursing Home	Nursing
	Ridgewood Court Care Home	Residential/ EMI
	Trepassey Care Home	Residential
Upton GP	Woodheath Care Home	Nursing / Residential
	Apple House	EMI
MLMP	Anchorage Care Home	Nursing / Residential /EMI
	Caldy Manor Care Home	Residential
	Cherryhurst Residential Home	Specialist residential care home
	Hilbre House Residential Home	Residential
	Hoylake Cottage Care Home	Nursing /Residential/EMI
	Lear House Residential Home	Residential
	Meols Drive Care Home with Nursing	LD assisted living
	Red Rocks Nursing Home	Nursing
	Riversdale Care Home	Residential
	Sandtoft Residential Home	Residential
	The Dales Residential Home	Residential/EMI
	Westhaven Nursing Care Home	Nursing / Residential
	The Old Garden Care Home	Nursing / Residential/EMI
	The Court Care Home	Residential/EMI
	The Lodge Care Home	Residential

Publications of interest for care home staff

Enhanced Health in Care Homes: A guide for care homes – Care Provider Alliance

NICE (NG48). Oral health for adults in care homes

This guideline covers oral health, including dental health and daily mouth care, for adults in care homes. The aim is to maintain and improve their oral health and ensure timely access to dental treatment.

https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng48

NICE (QS151). Oral health in care homes

This quality standard covers oral health, including dental health and daily mouth care, for adults in care homes (with and without nursing provision). It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.

https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/qs151

NICE. Improving oral health for adults in care homes

A quick guide for care home managers.

https://www.nice.org.uk/about/nice-communities/social-care/quick-guides/improving-oral-health-for-adults-in-care-homes

Care Quality Commission. Smiling matters: oral health care in care homes

This report was carried out by CQC to find out how care home and dental providers were implementing NICE (NG48) Oral health for adults in care homes. CQC dental inspectors attended 100 routine planned inspections of care homes alongside inspectors from adult social care team. They found that too many people living in care homes are not being supported to maintain and improve their oral health. The report includes numerous recommendations to improve the oral health of care home residents, including the implementation of the NICE guideline Oral health for adults in care homes.

https://www.cqc.org.uk/publications/major-report/smiling-matters-oral-health-care-care-homes

NHS England and NHS Improvement. NHS Long Term Plan

Supporting residents to have good oral health, is mentioned in 1.15 (on page 16) ‘We will upgrade NHS support to all care home residents who would benefit by 2023/24, with the EHCH model rolled out across the whole country’

https://www.longtermplan.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/nhs-long-term-plan-version-1.2.pdf

Public Health England. Delivering better oral health: an evidence-based toolkit for prevention

This is an evidence-based toolkit to support dental teams and other health and social care staff in improving their patient’s/resident’s oral and general health.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/605266/Delivering_better_oral_health.pdf

Public Health England. A quick guide to a healthy mouth in adults

This factsheet provides a summary of the simple steps that adults can take every day to protect and improve their oral health. The evidence-based advice is from Delivering better oral health.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/601835/healthy_mouth_adults_quick_guide.pdf

Public Health England: Adult oral health: applying All Our Health Evidence and guidance to help healthcare professionals improve dental health in adults

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/adult-oral-health-applying-all-our-health

Care home charter for medicines

The Patients Association has produced a leaflet that supports the implementation of recommendations in the NICE guidelines on managing medicines in care homes and oral health for adults in care homes. It also supports statements 5 and 6 in the NICE quality standard on medicines management in care homes and statement 3 in the NICE quality standard on oral health in care homes.

https://www.patients-association.org.uk/news/patients-association-launches-care-home-charter

Healthwatch. What’s it like to live in a care home? Findings from the Healthwatch network

Between January 2016 and April 2017, local Healthwatch staff and volunteers across England visited 197 care homes across 63 different local authority areas to find out what day to day life is really like for many of those living in care homes. Their report provides a snapshot of what it’s like to live in residential care.

https://www.healthwatch.co.uk/report/2017-08-10/whats-it-live-care-home-findings-healthwatch-network