Stockingate Residential Home in Pontefract, West Yorkshire has been placed in special measures after the CQC rated them as Inadequate following an unannounced inspection in July this year.
The service provides residential care for up to 25 people, some of whom are living with dementia. At the time of our inspection there were 19 people using the service, one of whom was a temporary admission
This service was previously inspected in July 2015 and was rated as Requires Improvement.
Debbie Westhead, Deputy Chief Inspector of Adult Social Care in the North for CQC, said:
“People are entitled to services which provide safe, effective, compassionate and high quality care. We found that the care provided at Stockingate Residential Home fell short of what we expect services to provide.
“In particular we were concerned with the medicines management at Stockingate Residential Home. We had found breaches at our previous inspection, and they had failed to improve things when we visited earlier this year.
“People were not always able to access the medicines that they needed particularly at night, as there were no medicines trained staff on during this time.
“It was very worrying that staff did not always have the appropriate training and skills to meet the needs of people living at Stockingate Residential Home. It was also concerning that when we looked at the recruitment records of four members of staff, three of these had not had the appropriate checks carried out before they started working at the home.
“We were very concerned that vulnerable people using this service were not being kept safe in the most basic of ways. We found risks including infection prevention and control, fire safety, and good nutrition and hydration were not being taken care of.
“We are working with local partners including Wakefield Council to ensure the safety of people using this service”
The full report from the inspection can be found here on our website.
Inspectors found medicines were not always managed in safe way for people and they were not always able to access medicines at night as there were no medicines trained staff on night duty.
Staff had an understanding of how to safeguard adults from abuse and who to contact if they suspected any abuse, however the manager of the service had not acted on safeguarding concerns raised by people who used the service, staff and relatives.
Inspectors found poor practice in the prevention and control of infections, which meant people were not protected against the spread of infection.
Staff had not always received training to enable them to provide effective support to people who used the service, for example most staff were not up to date with or had not received training in managing behaviour that challenges or fire safety training.
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