Enter and view: Hoylake Cottage Care Home, Hoylake

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Summary of report content

Healthwatch Wirral conducted an Enter and View on Hoylake Cottage Care Home, a privately owned care home with 72 beds on the 19th July 2017.

This visit was arranged as part of Healthwatch Wirral’s Enter and view programme. This was an announced visit.

Observation by the Enter and view representatives reported that:

The home was very well presented, the atmosphere was happy and staff were friendly and enthusiastic. The management were approachable,

committed and appeared to have many ideas for further improvement, the facilities were very good and the residents actively engaged and happy. The relatives spoken to praised the home and the staff.

The report contains three recommendations and includes a feedback from the provider. Healthwatch Wirral's follow up action was to provide the home with Healthwatch leaflets and any information about training appropriate to staff.

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General details

Local Healthwatch
Healthwatch Wirral
Publication date
Date evidence capture began
Date evidence capture finished
Type of report
Enter and View
Key themes
Access to services
Triage and admissions
Building, Decor and Facilities, including health and safety
Parking and transport
Cleanliness, Hygiene and Infection Control
Communication with patients; treatment explanation; verbal advice
Public consultation and engagement
Food, nutrition and catering
Lifestyle and wellbeing; wider determinants of health
Written information, guidance and publicity
Medication, prescriptions and dispensing
Caring, kindness, respect and dignity
Staffing - levels and training
Quality of treatment
Service organisation, delivery, change and closure

Methodology and approach

Was the work undertaken in partnership with another organisation?
No
Primary research method used
Observation (eg Enter and View)
If an Enter and View methodology was applied, was the visit announced or unannounced?
Announced

Details of health and care services included in the report

Details of health and care services included in the report
Care home

Details of people who shared their views

Number of people who shared their views
0
Age group
Not known
Gender
Not known
Is the gender identity of people in the report the same as the sex they were assigned at birth?
Not known
Sexual orientation
Not known
Does this report feature carers?
Yes
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