This factsheet covers what should happen before, during and after your hospital stay, and how you can prepare for it. Information about processes and your rights refers to NHS hospitals, unless otherwise stated.

This is the website for the Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care (The Care Commission), which is a national organisation set up under the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001to regulate and inspect Scottish Care Services

This sets out the national Minimum Stards for care homes for older people, which form the basis on which the National Care Standards Commission will determine whether care homes are meeting the needs of their residents

Checklist, or tool, for sheltered housing providers to assess how well they work with health & social care services to meet the needs of residents. Useful for Best Value and Supporting People Reviews. A series of questions with tick boxes for answers.

Outline information about sheltered housing, together with a checklist of key questions for hospital & primary care staff so that they can assess how well they understand & could work with sheltered housing

This factsheet explains treatment offered by the NHS, including how to find an NHS dentist, charges for NHS treatment, how receiving certain benefits or the NHS low income scheme can help with NHS treatment costs, and what you can do if dissatisfied w

A study by McCarthy & Stone on the health and social care benefits of sheltered housing

This factsheet explains what NHS continuing healthcare (NHS CHC) is, the process for deciding whether you are eligible to receive it and what to do if you are unhappy with the decision reached. It also explains NHS-funded nursing care – the NHS’s financia