Advance Care Planning in Care Homes (England) Policy

Policy Statement

This home believes its service users should have the right to develop an advance care plan if they wish which outlines the care they want to receive if their physical and mental health declines to the point where they lose mental capacity.

For the duration of the Covid-19 pandemic, service users having an advanced care plan (ACP) in place or being able to review existing ACPs was of high importance, and incorporated discussions around how Covid-19 could cause service users to become critically unwell and a clear decision about whether hospital admission would be considered.