Latest resources

• DH website - Consultations
  11/07/08

  Link to the DH website information on current and past consultations.

• A Sure Start to Later Life: Ending Inequalities for Older People
  11/07/08

  The experience of exclusion is not unique to older people - it affects people of all ages. However, exclusion can be particularly acute in later life for three reasons. it is all too rare that people...

• NPSA - Protected Mealtimes
  11/07/08

  The National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) has identified poor nutrition as patient safety issue. This resource includes tips from frontline staff on making Protected Mealtimes work, the aim to ensure...

• RCN Improving continence care for patients
  11/07/08

  This RCN document looks at the key roles of nurse specialist and consultant nurse, examining their potential influence on continence services - whether in a hospital or community setting - and the impact...

• Essence of Care: Patient-focused benchmarks for clinical governance
  11/07/08

  This guidance from the Department of Health relates to an initiative introduced in 2002. Aimed particularly at nurses, the Essence of Care initiative sought to deliver the core elements of good quality...

• No Secrets: Guidance on developing and implementing multi-agency policies and procedures to protect vulnerable adults from abuse
  11/07/08

  This Department of Health report is recommended to all commissioners and providers of health and social care services including primary care groups, regulators of such care services and appropriate criminal...

• CSCI Fact Sheet on Elder Abuse
  11/07/08

  This fact sheet, created by the Commission for Social Care Inspection, provides a brief explanation of what is meant by abuse and offers advice on what to do if abuse is suspected. It includes useful...

• Top Tips For Residential Staff
  11/07/08

  This concise CSIP produced poster gives staff within care homes some simple but effective ways to ensure the dignity and respect of older people under their care.

• CSCI National Minimum Standards
  11/07/08

  This document sets out National Minimum Standards for Care Homes for Older People, which form the basis on which the new National Care Standards Commission will determine whether such care homes meet...

• Dorset and Somerset Strategic Health Authority - Dignity on the Ward Audit Template
  11/07/08

  This audit tool is designed to support the assessment of core standards for delivering dignity on the wards and departments of hospitals in community, acute and mental health sectors and for developing...