Mead Lodge Residential Care

Subject to paragraph (2), the registered person must give notice in writing to the Commission, as soon as it is reasonably practicable to do so, if any of the following events takes place or is proposed to take place— e.where the service provider is a body other than a partnership— i.a change in the name or address of the body,

1.The care and treatment of service users must— a.be appropriate, b.meet their needs, and c.reflect their preferences. 2.But paragraph (1) does not apply to the extent that the provision of care or treatment would result in a breach of regulation 11. 3.Without limiting paragraph (1), the things which a registered person must do to comply with that paragraph include— a.carrying out, collaboratively with the relevant person, an assessment of the needs and preferences for care and treatment of the service user; b.designing care or treatment with a view to achieving service users' preferences and ensuring their needs are met; c.enabling and supporting relevant persons to understand the care or treatment choices available to the service user and to discuss, with a competent health care professional or other competent person, the balance of risks and benefits involved in any particular course of treatment; d.enabling and supporting relevant persons to make, or participate in making, decisions relating to the service user's care or treatment to the maximum extent possible; e.providing opportunities for relevant persons to manage the service user's care or treatment; f.involving relevant persons in decisions relating to the way in which the regulated activity is carried on in so far as it relates to the service user's care or treatment;

1.Service users must be treated with dignity and respect. 2.Without limiting paragraph (1), the things which a registered person is required to do to comply with paragraph (1) include in particular— a.ensuring the privacy of the service user; b.supporting the autonomy, independence and involvement in the community of the service user;

1.Care and treatment of service users must only be provided with the consent of the relevant person. 2.Paragraph (1) is subject to paragraphs (3) and (4). 3.If the service user is 16 or over and is unable to give such consent because they lack capacity to do so, the registered person must act in accordance with the 2005 Act*. 4.But if Part 4 or 4A of the 1983 Act** applies to a service user, the registered person must act in accordance with the provisions of that Act. 5.Nothing in this regulation affects the operation of section 5 of the 2005 Act*, as read with section 6 of that Act (acts in connection with care or treatment).

1.The nutritional and hydration needs of service users must be met. 2.Paragraph (1) applies where— a.care or treatment involves— the provision of accommodation by the service provider, or an overnight stay for the service user on premises used by the service for the purposes of carrying on a regulated activity, or b.the meeting of the nutritional or hydration needs of service users is part of the arrangements made for the provision of care or treatment by the service provider.