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When new residents arrive at Fulford Nursing Home, they often comment on how quickly they have settled in.

And that is precisely the atmosphere that the home owners are keen to nurture.

Liz Hancock, home business manager, says: “We are an independent, small, family-run home – we make sure that we fit around the people who come here, rather than the other way round. No one has to fit a mould.

“We are able to provide high-quality care, which varies considerably from one resident to another. For example, we currently provide care for residents who require our help and assistance in order to remain independent, as well as helping residents who have severe impairment following a stroke, and are unable to manage without 24 hour nursing care and support from two carers for all their personal needs.”

The flexibility at Fulford Nursing Home extends to offering services that are tailor-made for residents. They can take advantage of the expertise, for example, of the opticians, chiropodists and hairdressers who visit the home, or they can make their own arrangements for various services.

Residents can even bring their own furniture. Liz explains: “If people want to do that, and create their own home from home that way, we can remove our furniture from the rooms.”

The owners bring more than 15 years' experience to their work at the home. There are 21 single and double bedrooms, many en-suite, catering for the 28 residents, who are both funded and private residents. Some rooms are shared by couples, others by friends who have moved in together.

There’s plenty of activity, both inside and beyond the home. A regular entertainment programme includes trips to the seaside, the theatre and gardening. One or two of the men occasionally nip down to their local for a drink and three residents with carers are going across to Blackpool for an overnight stay later in the summer, to see the illuminations.

At the moment, there’s an ongoing refurbishment programme in the home, and the dining room has been given more of the feeling of a restaurant.

 

The home’s facilities meet all national standards and Fulford Nursing Home is ahead of national minimum standards with its care staff: regulations stipulate that 50 per cent of care should be qualified to NVQ Level II – at Fulford the figure is 75 per cent.

 

The home also has attractive grounds, which residents have been enjoying enormously during the recent heat wave

 
 
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