Policies and guidance
As a key resource for providers, we are constantly developing and updating our online resources on local and national health and social care policies and good practice guidance. Please see the latest policies and good practice guidelines in the downloads section below.
Downloads
Nutrition
- Food First - Eating well for small appetites (782 Kb)
- Food First - Extra 500kcal per day (637 Kb)
- Food First-Homemade Sip Feeds
- MUST How to complete (959 Kb)
- MUST How to complete alternative measurements (1.08 Mb)
- MUST How to treat (463 Kb)
- Sip feeds & food comparison (560 Kb)
- Top tips in swallowing (268 Kb)
- Weighing scales guidance (301 Kb)
- Food First Fortifying food for care homes
- Soft diet – Patient/carer information
- Puree diet - Patient/carer information (use with ‘Puree diet – Which foods can I puree?’)
- Puree diet – Which foods can I puree? (use with ‘Puree diet - Patient/carer information’)
- Nutrition guideline & training pack for LD from the Caroline Walker Trust
Medicines Management
- Medication Ordering
- Medicines Review in Care Homes (186 Kb)
- Covert Medicines Guidance - Aylesbury Vale and Chiltern CCGs (369 Kb)
- Medicines and Falls Risk in care homes (327 Kb)
- Managing Medicines in Care Homes: NICE Guidelines (244 Kb)
- Refrigerated medicines in care homes (395 Kb)
- Safe-insulin-prescribing-in-care-homes.pdf (291 Kb)
- Standards for Medicines Policy (483 Kb)
- Standards for medicines policy audit (322 Kb)
- Good practice guidance - Care Home PRN medications (60 Kb)
- Good practice guidance - warfarin administration in care homes (240 Kb)
- Good practice guidance - Reducing Medicines Waste in Care Homes (332 Kb)
- Prescribing Tips for use of Inhalers in Care Homes v1.0 (Final).pdf
- Good practice guidance - homely remedies (456 Kb)
- Medicines in care homes GOV
- Food First Fortifying food for care homes
- Good practice Guidance for Nursing Homes
- Fingertip Units for Topical Steroids
- Latest medicine updates - emc
Clinical
- Good practice guidance - Gastrostomy tube fed patients: (440 Kb)
- Tips to improve Skin Care (263 Kb)
- Flu Vaccination in Care Homes
- Flu Consent MCA Compliant
- Prevention and control of infection in care homes an information resource
- Prevention and control of infection in care homes summary for staff
- Diabetes in Care Homes (pdf)
- Using your inhalers
- Coeliac disease - Coeliac UK
- Inhalers, a Guide to Breath-Actuated Devices
- Asthma: Using your inhalers
- Diabetes UK
- About Inflammatory Bowel Disease - Crohn's and Colitis UK
- COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) - British Lung Foundation
- Asthma and COPD Preparations and Compatible Devices
- Standards of Catheter Care in Adults Summary Guide
End of Life
- Adult DNACPR - South England (881 Kb)
- Getting it right for me careplan_v3 0
- Getting it right for me patient part of careplan_v3 0
- 20160309 Getting it Right for me -Patient held record -sample care plan guidance
- End of life nutrition 151015.pdf
- 'Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care
Emergencies
- Contacting Health services - Communication tool for care homes - (digital) (96 Kb)
- Contacting Health services - Communication tool for care homes - (print) (87 Kb)
Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Management
- Food First - Eating well for wound healing (447 Kb)
- Food First - Eating well for wound healing additional information (424 Kb)
- Woundcare Poster (pdf)
- Specialist Wound Care Team Referral Form (pdf)
- Pressure ulcer prevention - patient guide final version (V2) Aug 20101 (ppt)
- Community SSKIN Bundle (docx)
- BHT guideline prevention and treatment of pressure ulcers (pdf)
- Buckinghamshire Formulary
- Your Turn Campaign
- Pressure ulcers: prevention and management – Nice
External Resources
- Library resources for care home staff (866 Kb)
- Buckinghamshire NHS 111 Healthcare professional feedback form (58 Kb)
- Going in to hospital - Know my care needs - (digital) (140 Kb)
- Going in to hospital - Know my care needs - (print) (116 Kb)
- British Geriatrics Society
- Alzheimer's Society
- British Hypertension Society
- NHS Choices
- Mencap: What is a learning disability?
- British Association of Dermatologists
- Dementia UK
- National Autistic Society
- National Kidney Foundation