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1 Homes applying to, and being registered after, 1st
April 2002.
2 Homes in existence and registered on 1st April
2002.
3 To ensure flexibility for existing provision that
cannot meet these standards but is otherwise of good
quality, specific criteria may be agreed with the
Commission's registration and inspection staff to allow
some existing rooms which do not meet these standards to
remain in use.
4 as footnote 1.
5 To ensure flexibility for existing ensuite
provision which is otherwise of good quality, some specific
criteria may be agreed with Commission registration and
inspection staff to allow existing ensuite facilities which
do not meet this standard to remain in use.
6 Providers are recommended to move as near as
possible to 840 mm clear opening width off corridors of at
least 1200 mm, and for narrower corridors door widths will
need to be wider.
7 A new care home means all new buildings as well as
extensions to existing buildings; all conversions and
first-time registrations (not including existing local
authority homes).
8 Calculation of the 50% includes registered nurses
employed by the service where they are working as direct
care staff. Nurses are included in the 50% as they are
required to be registered with their regulatory body, the
Nursing and Midwifery Council, to practise as nurses. The
level of qualification to gain registration is
significantly higher than
SVQ 2.
9 Information on the
SSSC is given in the Introduction and on
its relevant registration requirements in
Annex C.
10 The last sentence does not include registered
nurses, who must be registered with their regulatory body,
the Nursing and Midwifery Council, and must maintain their
standards and registration every three years.
11 Restraint: Control to prevent a person from
harming themselves or other people by the use of: physical
means (actual or threatened laying on of hands on a person
to stop them carrying out a particular action); mechanical
means (for example, wrapping someone in a sleeping bag or
strapping them in a chair); environmental means (for
example, using cot sides to prevent someone from getting
out of bed); or medication (using sedative or tranquilising
drugs for the symptomatic treatment of restless or agitated
behaviour).
12 Adults with Incapacity Act 2000; Mental Health
(Scotland) Act 1984.
13
UKCC Position Statement on the Covert
Administration of Medicines.
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