Monica Thorpe

• Asthma/COPD

• Basic Life Support

• Bladder Management

• Bone Fractures

• Bowel Management

• Care Home Nursing

• Care of the Older Person

• Care Quality Commission (CQC) Regulations & Quality Improvement

• Challenging Behaviour

• Cognitive Impairment

• Complex Health Care

• Continence & Bowel Management

• Dementia

• Deprivation of Liberty (DOLS)

• Diabetes monitoring & management

• Elderly Care

• Employment and Sickness Management

• End of Life Care

• Fractures - Management of

• General Adult Nursing

• Health & Safety

• Huntington's Disease

• Hypertension

• Incident Reporting and Management

• Incontinence (Faecal)

• Incontinence (Urinary)

• Infection Prevention & Control

• Intermediate Care

• Long Term/Chronic/Life Limiting Conditions

• Manual Handling

• Medicines Management

• Mental Capacity Act

• Mental Health

• Nursing Home Nursing

• Nutrition and Hydration

• Pain Management

• Palliative Care/End of Life

• Parenteral Feeding

• Parkinson's Disease

• Pressure Ulcers

• Respiratory Disease

• Risk Management

• Root Cause Analysis

• Safeguarding Adults

• Sensory Impairment

• Serious Untoward Incident Investigations

• Stoma Care

• Swallowing Disorders

• Tissue Viability

• Venepuncture/Cannulation

• Visual Impairment

• Wound Care (not pressure ulcers)

Monica has been a Registered Nurse since 2009, specialising in care home nursing, with extensive experience across both NHS and private sector settings. She has held senior operational and clinical governance roles for leading care providers including Advinia Care Homes, Roseberry Care Centres, and Maria Mallaband Care Group. In these roles, she oversaw multiple care homes, led multidisciplinary teams, and worked closely with regulators, local authorities, and Integrated Care Boards to ensure safe, effective, and compliant service delivery.

Monica’s areas of expertise include elderly care, dementia, mental capacity assessments, safeguarding investigations, falls, pressure ulcers, infection prevention, medicines management, and end-of-life care. She has managed complex care for residents with long-term conditions and led root cause analyses, complaint investigations, and regulatory compliance reviews.

She has also worked as a Quality and Compliance Manager and as a Care Home Manager with legal responsibility for care standards and outcomes. Her broad leadership experience spans workforce management, training, risk management, and service improvement initiatives.

Specialisms

Biography

Reports

• Liability Report

• Screening Report

• Pro bono opinion

Ages Covered

Registered Nurse - Adult

Care Home Nurse

• Adults 26+ years