This website aims to be a one stop shop for information relating to Care Homes.
The Quality Improvement Team for Care Homes and Primary Care Settings and the Lothian Care Academy (Education pages) manage the website and write some pages the majority of the pages are written by the teams themselves – as they are the experts.
Please get in touch with us if you have any questions or comments about the website or if you would like to discuss having your own page on the site loth.carehomes@nhs.scot
Please note we are bound by NHS governance as to what we can display on this site. Furthermore, it is a public facing site and this should be taken into account with information uploaded to the site.
If you’d like information published on the Latest News page please complete the latest news form below and get in touch at loth.carehomes@nhs.scot
If you wish for our team to make changes to your information on your page please complete the change form below and get in touch at loth.carehomes@nhs.scot
If you wish to edit your own page please complete the editing access request form below and get in touch at loth.carehomes@nhs.scot
Having a page on the Care Homes website
Please read the NHS policy re the responsibilities of having an NHS webpage.
Please also see our documents on; considerations for how the information on your page looks including legal requirements for accessibility; and a guide as to how text etc will be formatted on the website.
Useful links for writing a webpage
- A brief introduction to accessibility (including legal requirements) – “Web accessibility basics”
- Government Guidelines (including legal requirements) – “Understanding accessibility requirements for public sector bodies”
- NHS Lothian Guidelines – “Writing well for the web”
