Statutory Notifications for Holywood Care Home 2019

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Dear Health and Social Care Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority,

I seek answers to the following questions under the UK Freedom of Information Act, concerning the statutory notifications recorded for Holywood Care Home made in 2019.

1. Please give the precise reasons/cause of each of the Statutory notifications dated 9 April 2019 and 15 July 2019. For example were they due to outbreaks of MRSA, E.coli, Pneumonia etc?

2. Were there no additional other statutory notifications recorded for Holywood Care Home in 2019? If so give the dates and the reasons.

3. If one person contracts an infection, for example Pneumonia in Holywood Care Home within 7-10 days of hospital discharge, which subsequently leads to hospital admission, is this not counted as a Statutory notification? If not, please kindly explain why.

4. In view of the Covid-19 pandemic, will the criteria set for the way statutory notifications are reported and recorded be changed? For example, instead of the requirement for two infections reported, one infection in future will be sufficient to generate a statutory notification?

Yours faithfully,

Dr Roger Corder

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Dear Dr Corder,

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The statutory date for response is 29th July 2020 .

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Dear Dr Corder

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Dear Dr Corder

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Dear FOI BSO,
Please can you kindly clarify a point raised in your answer to my question 3 concerning the statutory notification criteria required to report to RQIA when a care home resident is admitted to hospital, for example due to community acquired pneumonia preliminary diagnosed by the attending GP.
Does the care home not have to notify RQIA if a care home resident is admitted to hospital with a serious condition such as suspected pneumonia? Please list the specific criteria/conditions for the care home to notify RQIA.

Yours sincerely,

Dr Roger Corder

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Dear Dr Corder,
 
We have forwarded your request for supplementary information for the above
Freedom of Information request to the RQIA,
 
Kind regards,
 
BSO Corporate Services
 

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Dear Dr Corder,
 
Please find below further clarification in relation to your request for
supplementary information regarding the response issued to you for the
above Freedom of Information request:
 
Does the care home not have to notify RQIA if a care home resident is
admitted to hospital with a serious condition such as suspected pneumonia?
Please list the specific criteria/conditions for the care home to notify
RQIA.
 
The Nursing Homes Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005: regulation 30 and
RQIA’s guidance on notifiable events, which lists and defines the specific
criteria for notification, makes it clear what we are to notified of and 
serious illness is not notifiable under Regulation 30.
 
Kind regards,
 
BSO Corporate Services
 
 
 

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