Care home safety and capacity

The UK government, Scottish Government, Welsh Government and Northern Ireland Executive should ensure that pandemic plans for adult social care contain practical steps rapidly to scale up isolation facilities for care home residents in a future pandemic. As a minimum, plans should: establish mechanisms to record systematically the availability of isolation facilities in care homes in each nation...

The regulatory measures recommended in Chapter 11 should apply to care homes in England. Regulation should cover both systems and professionals where staff are providing care to deceased people in care homes.

The UK government, Scottish Government, Welsh Government and Northern Ireland Executive should each establish clear arrangements for pandemic planning in adult social care. Those arrangements should facilitate the production of pandemic plans for adult social care at the government, local and provider levels. Plans at a government level should identify: the roles and responsibilities of each government in...

The UK government and devolved administrations should ensure, within 12 months of the publication of this Report, that the pandemic stockpiles: retain stock that is better aligned with the range and severity of pandemic risks identified in the National Security Risk Assessment; maintain a minimum three-month supply of PPE for the entire health and social care system in...

In so far as a psycho-geriatric assessment unit would bring relief to Whittingham, we consider such a unit should be provided in Preston, not at Whittingham itself.