RNHA
Registered Nursing Home Association
 Demand for care home places is continuing to rise because of an ageing population and the fact that many older people with multiple health and social care needs find their quality of life is improved by 24-hour care in a residential setting, according to the RNHA.
Responding to the latest Laing & Buisson analysis revealing a 3% expansion of care home places for elderly and physically disabled people since 2006, RNHA chief executive officer Frank Ursell said the trend highlighted confidence in the ability of care home providers to meet the needs of one of the most vulnerable groups in the population.
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This section of our web site gives the latest news from regulators responsible for registration and inspection of nursing homes across the UK. In addition, it provides access to guidance logs used by inspectors in England to check how well nursing homes are meeting national minimum standards of care. The logs can also be used to help clarify how the standards should be interpreted. |
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Most of the care home residents who took part in a study by the Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU) at the University of Kent told researchers that their actual experience of living in a care home had been better than they expected.
The residents interviewed for the study - once just after moving into their care home and again three months or more later - generally found that they had more say over their lives than expected.
They also felt their quality of life had improved, their health and other needs were being met, and their social life was as good as or better than it had previously been. |
On 8th December 2011 a report on care home residents’ expectations and experiences was published by the Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU) at the University of Kent. Commissioned by the RNHA, the PSSRU report sets out the findings of interviews conducted with a randomly selected group of residents just after they had moved into their care homes and three or months later when they had settled in. For a summary of the report, click the image below. |
Nursing homes provide 24-hour care to nearly 200,000 people across the UK, many with multiple and often complex health problems. In this section of our web site, you can obtain up-to-date information and comment about, or relevant to, the sector from different sources including the RNHA, Counsel and Care, Brunswick’s Health Review and a range of other organisations and individuals. |
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Following a legal judgement in the North West, local authorities throughout England and Wales will need to make sure the fees they pay care homes to look after older people reflect the actual costs of providing care.
This is the warning to councils issued by the RNHA after care homes in the Sefton area won a legal battle against their local authority for freezing their fees for the past two years running.
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A car crash waiting to happen is how the RNHA has described the government's failure to ring-fence new funding for councils to spend on elderly care services.
RNHA chief executive officer Frank Ursell expressed no surprise at House of Commons research figures showing that, despite previous government assurances that it was giving councils a 'real terms' increase to spend on social care by 2014-15, the fact that there was no ring-fencing of the cash means the money has been diverted elsewhere.
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On 8th December 2009 the Care Quality Commission published new guidance to help providers of adult social care comply with the relevant regulations governing their business. Click here for Summary of Regulations, Outcomes and Judgement Framework. Click here for Essential Standards of Quality and Safety. Click here for Judgement Framework. |
