Guidance

Safeguarding Adults: The role of health services

These documents remind health services of their duties to safeguard adults.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Published: 14 March 2011

Documents

Download Safeguarding Adults Role of managers and boards - nb: large document

PDF, 2.73 MB, 32 pages

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Download Safeguarding Adults Role of health practitioners - nb: large document

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Download Safeguarding Adults the Role of Commissioners - nb: large document

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Download Safeguarding adults self assessment & assurance framework

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Download Safeguarding adults - Equality Impact Assessment

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They assist NHS commissioners, health service managers and practitioners in preventing and responding to neglect and abuse, focusing on patients in the most vulnerable situations. The documents include good practice principles and examples.

 The self- assessment and assurance framework allows providers and commissioners to benchmark their safeguarding adults arrangements against related Care Quality Commission Essential Standards.  The tool can help identify strengths or gaps in provision and generates graphs and action plans for improvement.

Published 14 March 2011