CQC takes action to protect people at Cressington Court Care Home

Cressington Court Care Home in Cressington, Liverpool has been placed in special measures after the CQC rated them as Inadequate following an inspection in October.

Cressington Court Care Home provides nursing care and personal support to to people with a range of care needs. At the time of this inspection there were 38 people living at the home, with 23 of them receiving nursing care.

This service was previously inspected in March this year and was rated as Requires Improvement.

The full report from the inspection can be found on our website.

Debbie Westhead, Deputy Chief Inspector for Adult Social Care for CQC, said:

“People are entitled to services which provide safe, effective, responsive and high quality care. We found that the care provided at Cressington Court Care Home fell a long way short of what we expect services to provide."

“We inspected Cressington Court as we received information from the local authority which raised concerns for the safety, comfort and welfare of people living at the home. These issues were primarily around the administration of people’s medication and the management structure at the service."

“At our last inspection we found breaches in regulation, some of those around medicines and it is disappointing that we found no evidence at this latest inspection that showed us they had done anything to make the service safer for people."

“Although staff were caring, people’s privacy and dignity was not always respected, for example their personal information was not stored securely."

“We are working with partners including Liverpool City Council to ensure the safety of people using this service.”

There was a lack of consistent and effective management which coupled with ineffective systems for checking quality meant issues were not identified or resolved, making improvement at Cressington Court Care Home slow and unsustainable.

Some of the findings included:

• Medicines were not managed safely, and people did not always receive their medication when they needed it.
• The environment was not sufficiently maintained to prevent the risk of infection.
• There were limited activities available to people.
• The service was not well-led.

Services in special measures will be kept under review and, if CQC have not taken immediate action to propose cancelling the provider's registration, they will be inspected again within six months. The expectation is that locations providing inadequate care should have made significant improvements within this timeframe.

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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For further information please contact CQC Regional Engagement Officer Kerri James by email kerri.james@cqc.org.uk or by phone on 07464 92 9966. 

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