The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has told Oakendale Residential Care Home in Preston, Lancashire that it must make improvements to protect the safety and welfare of people living there.
CQC carried out an unannounced inspection at the home in October 2015 to follow up on findings from the previous inspection in June, which rated the service Requires Improvement. Inspectors found, during the latest inspection, that the providers had failed to deliver services that were safe, effective, caring, responsive to people’s needs and services that were well led.
Overall, Oakendale Residential Care Home has been rated Inadequate and has been placed into special measures.
A previous inspection in June 2015 rated the service Requires Improvement overall, inspectors returned to the service in October and saw that the care being provided had deteriorated. There was not enough skilled, qualified and experienced members of staff to ensure people’s needs were being met in a timely manner, and to ensure the safety of residents – inspectors also noted that recruitment of staff was not conducted using a robust system and the provider had failed to ensure staff were safe to work with vulnerable people. The provider was not employing a robust system to record accidents and incidents, and therefore could not mitigate any risk in future or prevent reoccurrence. Medicine management in the home was poor, systems used by the service were not robust and placed people at risk of not receiving their medicines as prescribed. Staff were not being supported with adequate training or appraisals, and there was a lack of knowledge surrounding the Mental Capacity Act 2005, and capacity assessments were not always being conducted or recorded effectively. The provider did not employ robust systems to adequately monitor the quality of service being delivered and inspectors found evidence that the service had not been notifying the commission of incidents, as required by law.
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Debbie Westhead, Deputy Chief Inspector of Adult Social Care in the North, said:
“It is extremely disappointing that the provider has not taken the findings of our inspection in June 2015 seriously and failed to make the required improvements to ensure the people living in Oakendale Residential Care Home are well cared for.
“People are entitled to services which provide safe, effective, compassionate and high quality care and we have told the provider that the lack of identifiable improvement is unacceptable.
“We have been working with Lancashire County Council to ensure that people living at the home are not at undue risk. We will continue to monitor this care home. The service has been placed into special measures – and we are considering taking enforcement action and will report on this action when it is completed.”
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