Nursing Homes in Liss

Liss has 3 CQC registered nursing homes. 2 are rated Good, 1 Requires improvement.

Source: Care Quality Commission register, kept up to date as ratings change.

What Nursing Care in Liss Involves and What to Look For

Whether a home can cope when things get worse

What families most often want to know is whether a home can cope when things get worse, and that is precisely what a nursing registration is for. A qualified nurse must be on duty at all hours, so wound care, injections, feeding tubes and complex medication can be handled without arranging another move. Ask how many nurses and carers cover each shift, how vacancies and sickness are filled and how much agency cover the home relies on. Ask how pressure care, continence support, swallowing difficulties and medication reviews are managed, and how quickly a general practitioner or district nurse attends when someone deteriorates.

Reading the three records

Eastfield Nursing Home holds a Good rating, as does the home listed as The Grange, Liss, so read both reports for the strengths inspectors identified and note how recently they called. Chatterwood Nursing Home is rated Requires Improvement, which is a reason to read closely rather than to rule the home out, since the report names the specific shortfalls and the provider may already have acted on them. Ask the manager what has changed, when it changed and what evidence supports it. A judgement can be a few years old, so the date on a report matters as much as its wording.

Getting an Assessment and Funding a Placement

How the assessment works

A nursing placement normally rests on an assessment of need followed by a financial assessment. The first is free, open to anyone who asks, and records the help required with mobility, medication, nursing tasks and the daily routine. Ask Hampshire County Council Adult Social Care to carry it out and to arrange the financial assessment alongside it, since homes will want to read the outcome before offering a bed. Where the move follows a hospital admission, ask for the discharge team to be involved from the start, because those timescales are far shorter.

Fees and what sits outside them

Nursing fees are quoted weekly and run above residential fees, because they pay for qualified nursing hours as well as the room, meals, laundry and personal care. Where capital falls below the national threshold, the council may contribute up to the rate it will meet, with the resident paying from income such as pensions. Where registered nursing is confirmed as necessary, the health service pays a contribution towards the nursing element directly to the home. Ask for the fee in writing, with the policy on annual reviews and hospital stays.

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