Information
NHS Lothian’s Care Homes Website https://services.nhslothian.scot/carehomes/ was initially devised to provide Covid-19 information for Care Homes.
Since then, the website has grown immensely and now offers information on a wide variety of services, teams and education relevant to not only to older people’s Care Homes but all adult Care Homes, Care at Homes services and other teams.
It aims to be a “one stop shop” and is publicly accessible so anyone who may be involved with Adult Care Homes or Care at Home services can access information whether this be Care Home staff, Care at Home staff, District Nurses, resident’s, relatives or GP’s.
The section “A-Z Care Homes Website” contains information on health conditions, related services, referral pathways, teams for Care Homes and other useful resources.
The section “Latest News” includes updates that have been issued from the Scottish Government, Public Health Scotland, NHS Lothians and/or Health and Social Care Partnerships. We also publish the CHIT CHAT Care Homes newsletter on this page.
Latest news items are available for four weeks and are then removed.
The section “Education and Lothian Care Academy” details learning and development opportunities available to all Health and Social Care workers, including people who work in Care at Home and adult Care Homes in Lothian.
This may be through NHS teams, such as, Clinical Education and Training Team (CET), Lothian Care Academy (LCA) and specialist teams.
J.B. & H.S. 18-06-26
Services which are available for Older Adults and people living in Care Homes are wide and varying and the website has specific pages relating to referral to some of these services, including:
Behaviour Support Services and Referral Pathway
Dietetics and Nutrition: Referral Pathway
Palliative Care: Referral Pathway
Speech and Language Therapy (SLT): Information and Referrals
As well as referral details the section “A-Z Care Homes Website” also contains information for the management of common conditions seen in Care Homes and amongst Older Adults. These topics include:
Wellbeing & mental Health – such as Behaviour Support and Dementia
Holistic Care – such as Future Care Planning (ACP) and Occupational Therapy
Physical Conditions/Treatments – such as Audiology, Oral Health and Outbreaks
Physical Other – such as Falls and Physiotherapy
