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The new care profiles provide the most comprehensive source of information on care services. Launched today by Care and Support Minister, Norman Lamb, they help people to search and compare residential care homes and other care services and make confident choices about registered care for themselves or family members.
The profiles bring together information from a variety of sources, including:
- official information from the Care Quality Commission inspection reports on care services
- information from care providers on the specialist services and facilities they offer, with details of staff and other useful information such as sample menus, photos of rooms and gardens
- comments from the public, service users, residents and their families on their own experiences of the care provider, including links to other comment sites
- from next month, the ability for the public to give services star ratings
- official Ofsted-style rating for care services, when they are introduced
The profiles are available on NHS Choices and sit alongside easy to reference information on entitlements to care, paying for care, organising a care need assessment and other practical advice.
More than 8,000 care providers have already added information about their services to their profile on the website, and many more are expected to do so.
For more info visit this link – https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-launches-care-comparison-website
