Report of visits to care homes by Healthwatch enter and view volunteers looking at how care homes for older people use activities to help residents have the best possible quality of life.
Our volunteers visited all 34 homes in North Tyneside. We sent our reports to the care homes we visited for their comments and shared the final reports with the care homes, North Tyneside Council and the Care Quality Commission.
Some of our volunteers met to look at the reports to identify common themes and areas of good and poor practice. Healthwatch volunteers and staff met with the Adult Social Care commissioners from North Tyneside Council before producing our overarching report of our findings and recommendations, Living life to the full.
What has changed?
Following our visits in 2015 we worked with Tyne and Wear Care Alliance to introduce an Activity Coordinator Forum and a toolkit for coordinators to share ideas and promote good practice.
Response to our recomendations
We asked North Tyneside Council for a response to our recommendations. Jacqui Old, Director of Adult Social Care Services suggested some amendments to the report which we accepted and incorporated into the final report.
Download the full and summary reports below:
| Living life to the full - focus on meaningful activities. full report | Download File (pdf 634.39 KB) |
| Living life to the full - summary report | Download File (pdf 409.02 KB) |
| Response by North Tyneside Council | Download File (pdf 203.83 KB) |
