Nursing Homes in Lancing

Lancing has 3 CQC registered nursing homes. 2 are rated Good, and 1 has not yet been rated. 1 of the 3 was last inspected more than three years ago.

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

Planning and Paying for Nursing Care in Lancing

Two pieces of work, running together

A funding decision rests on two separate pieces of work, and neither needs to wait for the other to finish. The assessment of need is free, open to anyone who may require care, and it records the help needed with mobility, medication, nursing tasks and the daily routine. The financial assessment looks at capital and income and decides whether the council can contribute. Ask West Sussex County Council Adult Social Care for both, and ask for them to run alongside each other, since homes will want to read the outcome before offering a bed.

What a nursing placement costs

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 needed, the health service pays a separate contribution towards the nursing element, paid directly to the home. Ask each home for the fee in writing, with the policy on annual reviews, hospital admissions and extras charged on top.

Choosing a Provider in Lancing and What to Check

Two published reports and one home without a rating

Drumconner Lancing and Rectory House Nursing Home are both rated Good, so read their reports for what inspectors singled out and how recently they called, since a judgement can be a few years old. Lancing Beach Care Home has no published rating, so ask when it registered, whether an inspection is expected and how the provider checks its own standards in the meantime. Ask any home, rated or not, how it supervises clinical care and what happens when a resident deteriorates overnight. The answers to those questions tell you more than a rating word on its own.

Questions worth asking in person

Ask how many qualified 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. Ask to see a sample care plan and the recent activity programme, and ask what families are told when something goes wrong. Visit twice if you can, once by arrangement and once at a quieter hour, and watch a mealtime if the chance arises.

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