Care homes and Care At Home

• See adult support and protection on this site.  
• IRISS Large Scale Investigations - a course explaining the role of large scale investigations (LSIs) within the context of adult support and protection (ASP) practices in Scotland.

See bladder and bowel health.

• Visit the Care Inspectorate website.

Diabetes CPD for registered nurses, health care assistants and those working in care settings.  The links in this document are intended to help improve HSCP staff knowledge and understanding of diabetes.

Diabetes e-learning links (pdf - April 2023)

• Visit the RESTORE2 website - all of the documentation required for a QI project to implement in your care home.
• Home Safe - Care Home Transfers - poster (pdf)
• Transfer Of Care Form (v4) (pdf)

• Complete IDDSI Framework - Detailed Definitions (pdf - July 2019)
• Drinking for a Healthy Bladder (pdf)
• Eating and drinking well in care: good practice guidance for older people - from the Care Inspectorate Hub
• Food Fortification Guide (pdf)
• From Frail To Hale And Hearty - Nutritional Care (pdf, February 2024)
• Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST) (pdf) 
• Swallowing Matters (pdf)

See the downloadable resources below.

We want people to live meaningful lives, whether they live at home independently, with support or in a care home. Sometimes however people need some support to maintain meaningful activity.

Find out what interests those you work with. You can then use the ideas for activities resources from Royal College of Occupational Therapists (RCOT).

If you want to know more about the benefits of engaging those you work with in meaningful activity, visit the living well through activity in care homes toolkit which tells you about the benefits as well as signposting you to ideas.

There are also useful resources on connecting people, connecting support where you can find activities that are particularly focused for those with dementia. 

The benefit of many of these activities is that people move, which in turn helps them maintain activity levels which provide many benefits for them.

• Visit the Caring for Smiles: Guide for care homes from Scottish Dental.
• Open Wide from Turas Learn - training for an oral health improvement programme for adults who require support with daily oral care 
• Caring for Smiles from Turas Learn - training for Scotland's national oral health programme aiming to improve the oral health of older people, particularly those living in care homes.

For further details contact:

Miranda Moodie
Invergordon
miranda.moodie@nhs.scot

Jane Weeden
Wick
jane.weeden@nhs.scot

Mary Dawson
Inverness
mary.dawson@nhs.scot

Eilidh MacKinnon
Culloden
eilidh.mackinnon@nhs.scot

• Wound Management Guidelines and Formulary from Treatments and Medicines (TAM) - see Podiatry Guidance
• Personal Footcare Guidance from Scottish Government
• CPR For Feet (pdf) - a visual guide

• Realistic Medicine - Realistic Care infographic (pdf)
• Anticipatory Care Planning toolkit from Healthcare Improvement Scotland ihub

Visit the Scottish Care website - the voice of the independent social care sector in Scotland. 

Independent sector leads

Argyll and Bute

Julie Hodges
email julie.hodges@scottishcare.org 

Highland

Christine MacKenzie
phone 07387 173 924
email christine.mackenzie@scottishcare.org 

Highland - care homes

Gwen Harrison
phone 07909 110 882
email gwen.harrison@scottishcare.org

• National Screening Guide (pdf)

• Care Home Collaboration Team - Training Sessions (January to March 2024) (pdf)

• Care Home Tissue Viability Risk Assessment and Care Plan Guide (pdf - May 2023)
• Wound Management Guidelines and Formulary at Treatments and Medicines (TAM) 
• Standards for prevention and management of pressure ulcers from Healthcare Improvement Scotland 
• Best Practice Foot Ulcer Pathway and Standards Of Care (pdf)