Heaton Grange Residential Home, a residential care home in Bradford has again been rated as Inadequate by CQC, following an inspection in June.
The service is registered to provide personal care and support to people, some of whom may be living with a dementia. At the time of this inspection, there were 17 people using the service.
This service was previously inspected in August 2016 and rated as Inadequate after CQC inspectors found breaches of the Health and Social Care Act 2008.
The full report from the inspection can be found on our website.
Debbie Westhead, CQC’s Deputy Chief Inspector for Adult Social Care said:
“People are entitled to services providing them with safe, effective, responsive and high quality care. We found care provided at Heaton Grange Residential Home fell short of the standard that services are expected to provide."
“We found breaches in regulation at our previous inspection and disappointingly found limited progress has been made in addressing these despite us telling Heaton Grange where they must improve."
“They were still not assessing risks to people’s health, and it was very concerning that they were not checking the suitability of staff during recruitment."
“People were also not always receiving their medicines as their doctor had prescribed them, also putting them at risk."
“We are working with local partners including Bradford Council to ensure the safety of people using this service.”
Other findings from the inspection included:
- Staff did not always give people their medicines as prescribed.
- The service did not update risk assessments consistently. One person had two falls, one resulting in a fracture. When they returned to the home their falls risk assessment was not updated to discuss what could be done to avoid another.
- The service had not taken enough action to fix the problems identified at the last inspection
CQC are now taking enforcement action against the provider. This is currently subject to legal proceedings and CQC will report on these when able to.
Any regulatory decision that CQC takes is open to challenge by a registered person through a variety of internal and external appeal processes.
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