General Information
The following list represents a number of organisations that provide information, guidance or advice to Care Home Managers or Owners:
- Information Regarding:
- Regulatory Advice for Care Homes, Guidance for Professionals
- Organisation:
- Care Quality Commission
- Web Site:
- www.cqc.org.uk
- Information Regarding:
- Adverse Incidents of Equipment or Posters on How to use Equipment
- Organisation:
- Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
- Web Site:
- www.mhra.gov.uk
- Information Regarding:
- The Bladder and Bowel Foundation
- Organisation:
- The Bladder and Bowel Foundation provide a large amount of information and support for all types of bladder and bowel related problems for patients, their families, carers and health professionals. (Formerly known as the Incontact and Continence Foundation). You can write to them or call them: The Bladder and Bowel Foundation SATRA Innovation Park Rockingham Road Kettering Northants NN16 9JH
- Telephone:
- 01536 533255
- Email:
-
info@bladderandbowelfoundation.org
- Web Site:
- www.bladderandbowelfoundation.org
- Information Regarding:
- Association of Continence Advice
- Organisation:
-
Multidisciplinary group of health care professionals providing information about all aspects of incontinence.
Assocoation of Continence Advice c/o Fitwise Management Ltd Drumcross Hall Bathgate West Lothian EH48 4JT
- Telephone:
- 01506 811077
- Email:
-
aca@fitwise.co.uk
- Web Site:
- www.aca.uk.com
- Information Regarding:
- Pressure Ulcers, Cause, Management and Treatment
- Organisation:
- National Institute for Health & Clinical Excellence (nice)
- Web Site:
- www.nice.org.uk
- Organisation:
- NHS Choices
- Web Site:
- www.nhs.uk
- Information Regarding:
- Health & Safety issues, Fire Retardant Fabrics, Posters for Skin Checks for Dermatitis or How to Wash Hands
- Organisation:
- Health & Safety Executive
- Web Site:
- www.hse.gov.uk
- Information Regarding:
- Infection Control in Care Homes
- Organisation:
- Department of Health
- Web Site:
- www.dh.gov.uk
- Organisation:
- Health protection Agency
- Web Site:
- www.hpa.org.uk
- Organisation:
- National Resource for Infection Control
- Web Site:
- www.nric.org.uk