Care Homes in Fareham

Fareham has 36 CQC registered care homes. 27 are rated Good, 1 Outstanding, 6 Requires improvement, and 2 have not yet been rated. 18 of the 36 were last inspected more than three years ago.

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

What a residential care home in Fareham actually provides

The phrase residential care covers a specific thing: a permanent home with personal care attached. Staff are on duty at every hour to help with washing, dressing, eating, medication and moving about, meals are provided, and there is company and structure to the day. It stops short of nursing delivered on site by a registered nurse, which requires a differently registered home. Knowing where that line falls is what stops a family touring homes that could never take the person in the first place.

Reading the ratings across the thirty four homes

All of the homes on this page are registered with and inspected by the Care Quality Commission. Broadview currently holds an Outstanding rating. Twenty seven are rated Good, among them Stokewood, Redlands Lane, White Hart House, The RedHouse Care Home, The Fernes, Woodland Court Residential Home and Willow Tree Lodge. Five carry a rating of Requires Improvement, including Solent Lodge, Florence Court Care Home and Winscombe Care Home. One, Arlo House, has not yet been rated, which ordinarily means registration was too recent for an inspection. Those five words stand in for a much longer document, and the document is the useful part. It grades safety, effectiveness, care, responsiveness and leadership one by one, so you can see whether a shortfall touched the thing your relative most depends on or something peripheral to them.

What to watch for on the day you visit

Arrange to see homes when they are busy rather than mid afternoon, and pay less attention to the furnishings than to the people. Do staff use residents' names without checking a chart. Does anyone look bored. Ask how many carers are on shift by day and by night, how long they have worked there, and how often agency staff fill the gaps. Ask who writes the care plan and how families are drawn into reviewing it. Where a home sits below Good, ask what has changed since the inspector left and ask to see the plan they wrote in response.

Assessments, funding and fees in Fareham

Two processes determine how a placement is paid for, and starting them late is the most common reason a family finds itself cornered into a quick decision.

The care needs assessment

A care needs assessment costs nothing and is open to anyone who appears to need care and support, with no savings threshold attached. Hampshire County Council carries out that assessment for people living in Fareham and decides which needs are eligible for funded support. The assessor works through daily living, mobility, medication and safety, and asks what the person wants their life to look like, then writes up the eligible needs. Ask for a copy of that write up, because homes ask about it and any subsequent funding decision is grounded in it.

Fees, contributions and the questions to ask about money

A financial assessment considers income, savings and property to establish what the person pays. Where the council contributes, it funds up to the rate it has set for the assessed level of need, so a family drawn to a home charging more may be asked for a third party contribution. Anyone paying privately contracts with the home directly, and fees in Fareham move with the room, the support required and any specialist provision. Ask for a written fee schedule, check what falls outside the weekly rate, and find out how much notice the home gives before fees change.

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