Guidance on visiting has been updated to reflect the new Care Quality Commission (CQC) fundamental standard on visiting and accompanying in health and care settings (Regulation 9A) which requires, among other things, that care home residents must be facilitated to receive visits, and not discouraged from taking visits out of the care home.
- Infection prevention and control (IPC) in adult social care: acute respiratory infection (ARI) – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
- Click here for the ARI outbreak management process
- Click here for the guidance on supporting safer visiting in care homes during infectious illness outbreaks
- Click here for the CQC Regulation 9A: Visiting and accompanying in care homes, hospitals and hospices
- Click here for the management of acute respiratory infection outbreaks in care homes guidance