If you need medical help and are unsure what to do, call NHS 111 for help and advice. They are available 24 hours a day.
Care home resources
A wide range of resources are available to support the safe quality care given by your teams to residents.
- Keeping antibiotics working
- Care-Home-Hospital-transfer-documentation
- Continence care - symptom profile
- Community Dietitians – Nursing Home referral form
- DOLs form 1 - standard and urgent authorisations
- DOLs form 2 - further notification request - for renewals where an application is still in force (if it has expired then the form 1 must be used)
- DOLS form 12 - notification to coroner
- DNA/CPR form
- Fluid intake and output frequency volume chart
- Fortified lemon cream recipe
- www.frailtyfocus.nhs.uk
- Good practice admission to care homes
- Homemade nourishing drinks (MUST score 2 of above)
- Infection prevention advice in care homes
- Information about staying hydrated
- Making the most of what you eat
- Malnutrition information and useful resources
- MUST Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool for community nursing
- MUST Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool for care homes
- Improving oral health for adults in care homes: A quick guide for care home managers
- React to Red cards - preventing pressure ulcers
- Referral information from care homes for RRAT
- This is me leaflet
- Urinary Catheter Care Bundle and Care Plan
- FORM U1 Management of UTIs For elderly patients residing in care homes
- Good Practice Guidance for CARE STAFF: Management of UTIs for elderly patients residing in care homes
- Good Practice Guidance for GPs/Non-Medical Prescribers: Management of UTIs for elderly patients residing in care homes
- Who to call and when
- A quick guide to help with health costs including charges and optical voucher values
- Claim for help with NHS health costs
- Berkshire Community Dental Service:
Care of your new or relined dentures
Information for carers on dental care
Mouth care for older people
Supporting dental visits to the Community Dental Service
Useful videos:
Importance of Hydration - a series of 6 short (2 minute) videos on YouTube for care staff to watch to improve their knowledge around the importance of good hydration and how making small changes can reduce Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs), hospital admissions and improve quality of care for residents in care homes.