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residents and families have been really engaged in the project and it has also helped our staff consider their own sleeping habits. We are going to expand this work across our care home sites and incorporate sleep quality within every resident’s care plan to address one of the foundations of health and wellbeing.
A new home with a difference We are currently celebrating the first anniversary of opening Norden House. Providing residential care, nursing and specialist support for people with dementia, Norden House in Littlehampton, West Sussex is the first of its kind on the south coast and has been specifically designed to give residents the freedom they have been used to. The layout, look, feel, and amenities have
been inspired by research into what people with dementia want from the built care environment and the Hogeweyk Dementia Village in the Netherlands. Everything has been designed for a ‘home from home’ environment for residents, aiming to enhance wellbeing and reduce the stigma around dementia. Residents live with up to seven other
people in a household, who have similar care needs or are at a similar stage of dementia and each household has its own kitchen, open plan lounge dining room, day lounge spaces and en suite bedrooms, many of which have their own patio. Running through the centre of the community is a ‘high street’ with a café and hair salon. There are also gardens and a holistic therapy room. Residents are encouraged to go about ‘daily routines’ and contribute to the running of village life.
New residents are continually moving in
developing plans for the site in partnership with the local authority. We are at the very start of a strategy to reimagine the support we offer at St Quentin, which is especially important with people who have high levels of 1:1 care. We are working with the local integrated care board to understand how we can and should be providing bespoke and therapeutic interventions that maximise their quality of life.
As a not-for-profit private health
Registered manager Emma Averill and HMT CEO Dr Nichola Stefanou
We want the people we support to live lives filled with meaning and purpose
and our community feel has been boosted through a new activities programme . Residents are now regularly taking part in visits to local attractions and experience events within Norden House. It has been wonderful to see the joy that a visit from a school choir, or a trip to a farm can provide our residents.
An additional location In September last year, we were pleased to bolster our provision with the acquisition of St Quentin Care Home in Staffordshire. This was a wonderful opportunity for us to expand our locations and during the first few months have been getting to know the 72 residents and their families as well as
provider, we have an unusual combination of private healthcare hospitals and care and nursing homes for older and working-age adults. We have a unique opportunity to bring these skills together and show how health and social care can work together and bring the right skills in the right places for the benefit of the people we serve. Developing a shared practice model across hospitals and care homes which focuses on reablement and identifying health inequalities will improve the health and wellbeing of our patients and residents. This was best demonstrated through the inaugural sepsis conference which was held at St Hugh’s Hospital. The Sepsis: Together We Can Succeed Conference was a partnership between Healthcare Management Trust and Humber Health Partnership. More than 140 health professionals, based across North East Lincolnshire & the Humber, came together to raise awareness of sepsis and discuss the management, and education of the condition among clinical teams working in hospitals and community settings. The conference, which has been
shortlisted for a HSJ Partnership Award, was the beginning of a range of activities to improve sepsis detection and treatment, including a Sepsis Support Group to help others with their experiences. We are now rolling out a series of
workshops across our care home sites to ensure healthcare professionals in the community can spot the signs early. The sessions will align to the recent NICE guidelines update on sepsis (Jan 2024), the UK Sepsis Trust Tool update, and Martha’s Rule. There is a distinct lack of sepsis awareness and management in the care home sector, so we hope that we can deliver the sessions for other providers in the near future. Work is also underway to develop a vision for care and clinical practice in our care homes. The model will encompass key areas including reablement following illness, addressing and reducing frailty, a coherent
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