Care Home and Residential Care Guidance

Useful resources

• Cover letter to care homes
• Flu and Flu vaccination 2019/20: A toolkit for care homes – This describes why flu vaccination is important, responsibilities of employers, common barriers to immunizations, a cost calculator and ideas and resources for improving uptake
• Staff vaccination: A template for recording uptake
• Care Home Preparedness Checklists for Seasonal Influenza (Flu) and Norovirus
• Infection Prevention and Control: An Outbreak Information Pack for Care Homes: ‘The Care Home Pack’:  – This has been produced by the Public Health England SW Health Protection Team and should serve as a useful practical guide to infection prevention and control, recognizing and managing common infectious diseases and outbreak management in care homes
• Risk assessment guide for care homes admitting residents with infections
• Care Homes: Infection Prevention and Control guidance: This is the national Public Health England guidance on prevention & control of infectious disease in care homes
• Guidelines for managing norovirus outbreaks in acute and community health and social care settings
• Norovirus Information leaflet for health and social care staff 2017
• Outbreaks of Flu in Care Homes Poster
• Flu symptoms poster