Finding the very best care home takes time and effort and at Chosen with Care we welcome any new source of information.  The news that the NHS have added care homes to it's comparison website is great news.

Care homes have been added to My NHS, part of the My Choices NHS website.  It will allow users to leave ratings and reviews so that others can use them to assess the service offered - a similar service to Trip Advisor.

The services that can be investigated are;

• user reviews - including star ratings
• Care Quality Commission inspection ratings of care homes
• Food Hygiene Standard rating
• levels of staff turnover
• whether the home has a registered manager in post
• key information such as location, services on offer, contact details

 Unfortunately as a new service there are very few reviews available at the present time.  Hopefully this will change soon.  Personally we wait to see how the site progresses, but welcome any information on care homes from the people that know them the best - the residents and relatives.