Summary of report content
During 2015 Healthwatch Worcestershire (HWW) carried out Enter and View visits on approximately 10% of care settings for older people in the county in order to see how residents are provided with meaningful activity to support health and wellbeing. (meaningful activity is defined as engaging our time, attention, environment). The aim was to maximise the impact of visits and raise awareness of HWW’s work on meaningful activity to both commissioners and providers in order to influence practice and improve residents’ experience. Announced visits to homes were chosen on the basis of a geographical spread, a mix of large and small home and providers and those which provide nursing care and those which don’t. The size of teams varied according to the circumstances of each home. Observations were recorded and a report was sent to each home subsequently and included recommendations based on the Residential Dementia Care standard. A checklist for settings to consider regarding meaningful activity was developed to help providers consider what they are doing and to enhance the experience of people living in the homes. A postal survey in 2016 followed up asking about the impact that the visits had had. The majority of managers implemented recommendations from the previous year’s visits and were satisfied that the visits made a difference to meaningful activity in the home.Would you like to look at:
Network Impact
Relationships that exist locally, regionally, nationally have benefited from the work undertaken in the report
Implied Impact
Where it is implied that change may occur in the future as a result of Healthwatch work. This can be implied in a provider response, press release or other source. Implied impact can become tangible impact once change has occurred.
Tangible Impact
There is evidence of change that can be directly attributed to Healthwatch work undertaken in the report.