Nursing Homes in Rugeley

Rugeley has 3 CQC registered nursing homes. 1 is rated Outstanding, 2 Requires improvement. 2 of the 3 were last inspected more than three years ago.

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

What Nursing Care in Rugeley Involves and What to Look For

One Outstanding home and two told to improve

One Outstanding home sits beside two that have been asked to improve, which puts the reports at the centre of this decision. Briar Hill House holds the Outstanding rating, so its report is worth reading closely for what inspectors describe as better than the expected standard. St Thomas' Priory and Talbot House Care Home are both rated Requires Improvement, so read those reports for the particular shortfalls named, then ask each manager what has changed, when it changed and what evidence supports it. Check the date of every inspection, since a home may now be in a different position.

The checks that matter in nursing care

A registered nursing home must have a qualified nurse on duty at all hours, so ask how many nurses and carers cover each shift, how vacancies and sickness are filled and how much agency cover is relied 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 becomes unwell. Ask to see a sample care plan and the recent activity programme. Visit twice if you can, once by arrangement and once at a quieter hour, and watch how people needing help to eat are supported.

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 Staffordshire 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.

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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