The registered provider must provide suitable facilities and accommodation for staff, including suitable changing, storage and sleeping facilities. In every designated centre, there should be separate cooking and kitchen facilities and proper provisions made for the storage of foods in hygienic conditions.<\/p>\n
There must be a sufficient supply of hot and cold water; a sufficient number of toilets having regard to the number of dependent persons, including in particular wheelchair accessible toilets; a sufficient number of commodes, sufficient baths, showers, sufficient incontinence care, bed linen and adequate arrangements for disposals of soiled dressings, instruments, syringes, sheets etc.<\/p>\n
They are detailed provisions in respect of food and nutrition.\u00a0 Dietary restrictions on medical or religious grounds must be facilitated.\u00a0 The person in charge must give appropriate assistance to those who would require assistance with eating and drinking.<\/p>\n
The person in charge of an institution shall arrange regular laundering of linen and clothes.\u00a0 They shall provide adequate facilities for residents to wash and iron their own clothes if they so wish and, for that purpose, make arrangements for clothes to be sorted or kept separately.<\/p>\n\n
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