29 April 2015
During an inspection looking at part of the service
After our inspection of 21 and 22 January 2015 the provider wrote to us to say what they would do to meet legal requirements for the continued breaches we found.
We undertook this unannounced focused inspection on 29 April 2015 to check that the most significant breaches of legal requirements, concerning the management of risk, which had resulted in enforcement action, had been addressed.
This report only covers our findings in relation to those requirements. You can read the report from our last comprehensive inspection, by selecting the 'all reports' link for Trent Lodge Residential Care Home on our website at www.cqc.org.uk.
We will undertake another unannounced inspection to check on all other outstanding legal breaches identified for this service.
Trent Lodge provides accommodation and personal care for up to 16 older people. There are 14 rooms, two of which are shared rooms. At the time of our inspection there were 13 people residing at the home.
There was a registered manager in post. A registered manager is a person who has registered with the Care Quality Commission to manage the service. Like registered providers, they are ‘registered persons’. Registered persons have legal responsibility for meeting the requirements in the Health and Social Care Act and associated Regulations about how the service is run.
We found that the provider had followed their plan in relation to these regulations. This means legal requirements for the management of risk had been met.
We saw that individual risks to people’s safety were being explored, assessed and information recorded about how these risks might be minimised.
When people’s needs changed information was now being accurately recorded and staff were told about any updates in handover meetings.
The registered manager and provider had implemented a monthly health and safety audit. This audit covered a number of areas including checks on medicines, equipment, the environment, care plans and fire safety. These checks were being carried out and where issues or problems had been identified we saw that action was being taken to address these.