Risk Assessment and Risk Management Audit – Care Homes
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Questions
0/32 answeredQ1 | Unanswered
Governance: Is there a current risk-management policy with clear responsibilities, assessment methods, review arrangements and routes for escalating concerns?
Evidence to check
- • Current risk-management policy and named responsibilities
- • Assessment, review and escalation procedures and evidence staff understand them
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Risk identification: Does the home identify risks to residents, staff and visitors across care, premises and service delivery, using observations, feedback, incidents and relevant professional advice?
Evidence to check
- • Risk-identification records drawing on walkarounds, feedback and incidents
- • Relevant professional advice and examples of newly identified risks being addressed
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Service risk register: Is there a current register of significant service risks with named owners, existing controls, outstanding actions, review dates and escalation decisions?
Evidence to check
- • Current service risk register with owners, controls, actions and review dates
- • Management review and escalation records for significant or unresolved risks
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Admission and compatibility: Before accepting a placement, are foreseeable risks and the impact on other residents considered, with evidence the home can provide the required support?
Evidence to check
- • Pre-admission assessments covering support requirements and compatibility
- • Placement decisions and evidence staff, facilities and resources can meet identified needs
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Individual assessment: Are individual risk assessments based on the person's current needs, abilities, routines, environment and relevant history rather than generic assumptions?
Evidence to check
- • Sampled individual risk assessments and relevant history or professional reports
- • Observations and personal plans showing assessments reflect the person's current situation
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Resident involvement: Are people supported to understand and contribute to risk decisions using accessible communication, with chosen representatives or professionals involved appropriately?
Evidence to check
- • Accessible risk discussions and records of resident participation
- • Relevant representative involvement and communication or advocacy support
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Positive risk-taking: Do assessments weigh potential benefits alongside harm and record how agreed choices, personal outcomes and independence will be supported safely?
Evidence to check
- • Recorded benefits, risks, preferences and agreed support for chosen activities
- • Resident feedback and reviews of independence and personal outcomes
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Consent and capacity: Where a risk decision raises questions about capacity, are decision-specific assessments and any best-interest decisions recorded, without treating an unwise choice alone as evidence of incapacity?
Evidence to check
- • Relevant decision-specific capacity assessments and best-interest records
- • Evidence of supported decision-making and distinction between unwise choices and incapacity
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Proportionate restrictions: Are restrictions individually justified, lawful and reviewed, with less restrictive alternatives considered and no blanket controls imposed solely for staff convenience?
Evidence to check
- • Individual restriction decisions, relevant lawful authority and review records
- • Less restrictive alternatives considered and actions to remove unnecessary blanket controls
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Assessment quality: Do assessments explain the hazard, who could be harmed, how harm might occur and its likely severity, with any scoring method used consistently and supported by evidence?
Evidence to check
- • Sampled assessments describing hazards, affected people and potential harm
- • Assessment guidance and checks of evidence supporting severity or risk ratings
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Control measures: Are controls practical and specific, prioritising removal or reduction of hazards where possible and describing what staff must do, when and with what resources?
Evidence to check
- • Specific control instructions with responsibilities, resources and timescales
- • Evidence hazards were removed or reduced and controls are practical in daily care
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Residual risk: After controls are identified, is remaining risk evaluated and escalated where necessary, with interim protection and authorised decisions about unresolved concerns?
Evidence to check
- • Residual-risk reviews and records of unresolved or significant concerns
- • Authorised escalation decisions, interim safeguards and follow-up
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Personal plans: Are agreed risk controls reflected in current personal plans and daily care instructions, with inconsistencies between assessments and actual support resolved?
Evidence to check
- • Risk assessments matched to current personal plans and care instructions
- • Actions resolving conflicting or outdated instructions
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Review triggers: Are assessments reviewed at planned intervals and promptly after changes in needs, incidents, near misses, equipment, staffing or the environment?
Evidence to check
- • Planned review schedule and assessment version histories
- • Examples of reviews triggered by incidents or changes in needs, resources or surroundings
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Immediate changes: Can staff recognise emerging risks and take timely protective action, seek advice and update or escalate plans without waiting for a scheduled review?
Evidence to check
- • Records of newly emerging risks, immediate action and professional advice
- • Staff discussions or incident reviews demonstrating timely escalation and plan updates
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Communication: Are current risk information and controls communicated securely during handovers, transfers and agency briefings, with staff understanding checked?
Evidence to check
- • Sampled handovers, transfer information and agency briefings
- • Staff knowledge checks and secure access to current risk instructions
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Staff competence: Are staff trained and supported to assess risks within their role, with competent or specialist advice sought when risks exceed their knowledge or authority?
Evidence to check
- • Role-appropriate risk-assessment training, supervision and competency checks
- • Specialist referrals or advice where assessment exceeded staff expertise
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Falls and mobility: Are falls, transfers and moving-and-handling risks assessed individually, with suitable assistance and equipment and review of both safety and independence?
Evidence to check
- • Individual falls and moving-and-handling assessments and relevant specialist advice
- • Equipment and assistance checks and reviews of mobility and independence
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Nutrition and swallowing: Where relevant, are risks involving nutrition, hydration or swallowing identified and addressed through individual instructions, monitoring and appropriate professional input?
Evidence to check
- • Relevant nutrition, hydration and swallowing assessments or professional instructions
- • Monitoring, care observations and escalation of identified concerns
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Skin and health risks: Are relevant risks of skin damage, deterioration and complications of long-term conditions assessed, with preventive care and clear escalation arrangements?
Evidence to check
- • Relevant skin, deterioration and long-term-condition risk assessments
- • Preventive care records, monitoring and escalation instructions or actions
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Medicines: Are medicines-related risks, including allergies, changes, self-administration and support needs, assessed and reflected in safe care arrangements?
Evidence to check
- • Medicines risk assessments and current allergy, prescribing and support information
- • Care arrangements and reviews following changes or medicines-related incidents
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Distress and safeguarding: Are risks associated with distress, self-neglect, harm, abuse or exploitation assessed sensitively, with individual prevention, support and safeguarding arrangements?
Evidence to check
- • Relevant individual risk, positive-support and safeguarding plans
- • Prevention measures, referrals and reviews of distress, harm or exploitation concerns
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Activities and community access: Are outings, visitors, relationships and meaningful activities supported through proportionate assessments, including arrangements for unexpected events or a person going missing?
Evidence to check
- • Individual activity, outing or missing-person risk assessments where relevant
- • Contingency arrangements and evidence chosen activities remain supported
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Premises and equipment: Are environmental, fire, water, hazardous-substance and equipment risks assessed by suitable persons, with controls checked and defects addressed?
Evidence to check
- • Relevant premises, fire, water, hazardous-substance and equipment assessments
- • Competent-person checks, defect logs and evidence controls or repairs are effective
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Infection and food safety: Are infection, outbreak and food-safety risks assessed and managed, with measures reviewed for effectiveness and their impact on residents' well-being?
Evidence to check
- • Infection, outbreak and food-safety risk assessments and control arrangements
- • Monitoring and reviews of both effectiveness and impact on resident well-being
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Staffing and workload: Are risks arising from dependency, staffing levels, skill mix, lone working, fatigue or agency use assessed, with contingency and escalation arrangements?
Evidence to check
- • Dependency, staffing and workplace risk assessments and actual shift arrangements
- • Contingency actions and escalation of shortages, skill gaps or excessive workload
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Change and continuity: Are risks assessed before significant changes or works and for foreseeable service disruption, including utilities, suppliers and essential information systems?
Evidence to check
- • Change, contractor and business-continuity risk assessments
- • Plans and checks for utility, supplier or essential-system disruption
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Implementation checks: Do observations, discussions and care-record checks confirm that agreed controls are used consistently and that required equipment or support is available?
Evidence to check
- • Observed care and environmental checks matched to assessed controls
- • Staff discussions and availability checks for required equipment and support
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Incidents and learning: Are incidents and near misses reviewed against existing assessments, with underlying causes, failed controls and learning used to improve risk management?
Evidence to check
- • Incident and near-miss reviews linked to existing risk assessments
- • Updated controls and shared learning addressing underlying causes
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Action tracking: Are risk-reduction actions prioritised, assigned and followed through, with completion verified and overdue or ineffective actions escalated?
Evidence to check
- • Prioritised action tracker with owners, deadlines and escalation records
- • Completion evidence and rechecks of overdue or ineffective controls
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Outcomes and feedback: Are controls reviewed with residents and relevant others to check they reduce harm while supporting comfort, choice and agreed personal outcomes?
Evidence to check
- • Resident and relevant representative feedback about risk controls
- • Outcome reviews showing reduced harm and supported comfort, choice and independence
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Leadership assurance: Do managers and the Responsible Individual review significant risks, recurring concerns and control effectiveness, allocate resources and include findings in the quality of care review?
Evidence to check
- • Management and Responsible Individual risk reviews and quality-of-care reports
- • Resource decisions and follow-up addressing recurring or significant risks
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