Guidance for Care Homes and Supported Living

Please see the latest Welsh Government and Care Inspectorate Wales guidance on visiting:

• Social care visiting guidance (PDF)
  
  

Please see the updated (16 June 2020) national guidance in relation to face masks and visits to care homes:

• Face masks and visits to care homes (PDF)
  
  

Please see the updated (6 June 2020) national guidance on care home visits:

• Care Home Visits (Word)
  
  

Please see the updated (6 June 2020) national guidance on care home testing;

• Care Home Testing (Word)
  
  

Please see the updated national guidance on infection control for residential settings:

• Guidance (PDF)
  
  

Please see the updated national guidance for care homes:

• https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-admission-and-care-of-people-in-care-homes
  
  
  

Please see the updated national guidance for supported living:

• https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-residential-care-supported-living-and-home-care-guidance/covid-19-guidance-for-supported-living-provision
  
  
  

You will have received a letter from the Deputy Director General asking you to provide vital information on capacity in across the care home sector in Wales. The information will be available to commissioners and hospital discharge teams.

The system can be accessed via https://www.dewis.wales.

• Letter to Care Home Providers (PDF)

Should you need any support with how to register and add your content to DEWIS, please call the Community Wellbeing Team on 01492 577449.

The team also have step by step guides to support you to register and upload your content on DEWIS, which we can send to you by email.

Maintaining Activities for Older Adults

A guide for online resources for those providing care for people with dementia (PDF)

Our health and care services are facing significant challenges during this pandemic which means it is crucial that we support the efficient discharge of patients.   We would like to set out the advice we are giving to Care Homes and recommend a standard approach across North Wales to best protect patients, staff, and the wider public.  As National advice changes we will work to ensure that you are kept up to date.

• All residents in Care Homes should be managed in line with the advice provided by Public Health Wales.
• If a patient is asymptomatic, they can be safely transferred to the Care Home without additional precautions or further assessment.  
• If a resident becomes symptomatic they will be cared for in line with infection prevention and control arrangements determined by Public Health Wales guidance.  Home testing for symptomatic patients in care homes will commence on 19th March 2020.  If a patient becomes unwell with a high temperature and/or a new continuous cough please contact 111 in the first instance, who will provide advice and guidance.
• An existing Care Home resident who has required a period of hospitalisation should return to the Home as soon as is clinically appropriate. 
• Family/Social contact should be facilitated by telephone/skype/social media where possible to keep visitors to the Care Home to a minimum. Please provide guidance to family and friends.
• Please also see Conwy’s latest guidance with regard to DOLS.

The Position of Conwy County Borough Council and Deprivation of Liberty (PDF)