The Council will explain what action it has taken with the Care Home (under new ownership and management) to ensure it provides care in line with CQC fundamental standards, addressing the learning identified by this complaint about: arranging for prompt re-assessment of needs by the Council, where a resident’s needs have changed significantly and the Home considers it is no longer able to safely meet their needs arranging for assessment of a resident’s potential eligibility for NHS Funded Nursing Care or Continuing Healthcare through completion of an NHS Continuing Healthcare Checklist, where the resident’s needs indicate they may have health needs needing nursing care putting temporary care interventions in place at the Home whilst awaiting a re-assessment of a resident’s needs, such as obtaining specialist input from district nurses / tissue viability nurses / continence specialists / GP's, to ensure that as far as possible the resident’s needs continue to be met at the HomeThe Council will explain what steps it has taken to ensure requests for re-assessments of a care home resident's needs do not ‘fall between the cracks’ and get overlooked.The Council will produce and share a SMART action plan setting out the action it has taken, itself and with the Care Home, to prevent a recurrence of the failings in this case. The failings relate to not properly managing a Care Home resident's leg condition and continence needs, and delaying too long in arranging to re-assess the resident's care needs.

The Council has agreed to take the following actionsl: Consider a review of its charging policy, particularly in relation to the charges for short term residential care and whether a financial assessment should be offered.Remind staff of the regulations and statutory guidance relating to DRE and the assessment of income.