August 25, 2019 - 1129 views
The Care Home Cymru programme has been set up to improve the quality of care for older people living in care homes in Wales.
In response to the Older Persons Commissioner report “A Place to call home impact and analysis” and 'A Healthier Wales', the Welsh Government commissioned an improvement programme to support older people living in care homes.
The vision is to build and improve supportive care home environments by bringing together health boards, providers of care and community health organisations and their teams.
A series of interventions will be in place to improve the safety and quality of care for older people, allowing residents to live well meaningful lives in their place of residence. The three year programme consists of the following phases:
Phase one – 16 care homes across Wales will engage with PHW to develop and shape an innovative care home programme to test proof of concept.
Phase two – a care home collaborative will support 140 care homes to increase awareness on improving staff capability and capacity for care home teams
Phase 3 – will consist of further scale and spread to 165 care homes
The phase one network is formed of 16 care homes across seven health boards and their respective health and local authority leads. Engagement from wider stakeholders include Social Care Wales, Care Inspectorate Wales, Age Cymru and Welsh Government.
Rosalyn Davies, Senior Improvement Manager, 1000 Lives Improvement, PHW, said: “We know that staff in care homes work extremely hard. Care Home Cymru aims to build on this foundation and improve care home environments for older people so they can live well at home.
"By engaging with NHS Health Boards, local authorities and providers of independent health and social care, we will strive to ensure that all care staff irrespective of grade have the right knowledge, skills and confidence to carefor an ageing population.
"We will do this by embedding the quality improvement agenda, which will be key in ensuring older people, are treated with respect and have prompt access to well-coordinated effective future care planning.”
