With many care homes starting to think about opening up to visitors again, it is important that operators strike the right balance between their legal responsibilities to safeguard their staff and residents and the rights of their residents and families.

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Rising numbers of Care Homes are struggling with poor care planning, says Helen Fuller, Managing director at Care 4 Quality.

On behalf of Mr David Green, DC Care is delighted to announce the recent successful sale of Longridge Care Home, previously registered for 32 within the category of dementia care located in the village of Dunston, near Stafford.

Set in over an acre of pleasant wooded gardens amidst open countryside, Longridge Care Home is a listed Georgian farmhouse, converted to a care home in 1980, with purpose-built extensions being later added.

Nourish Care, providers of a digital care planning solution, responded quickly to the growing pandemic by developing the functionality within their product for their clients to track and analyse cases of Covid-19 within their care service. Nourish have been working with NHS Digital with the aim of providing anonymised stats as part of a more detailed Covid-19 observation.

The Covid-19 Tracker is a simple and easy to use platform that Nourish have made available to any and all care teams who wish to use it.

Care 4 Quality are providing a symptom tracker template which will allow you to track all suspected and confirmed cases of Covid 19 along with the outcomes. You will be able to view all the residents on one document which will give you a picture of the whole home status and provide you with the data you may need to share with CQC and Local authorities.