The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has told Denison House Nursing Home in Selby, North Yorkshire 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 March this year to follow up on findings from the previous inspection in March 2015, 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, Denison House Nursing Home has been rated Inadequate and has been placed into special measures.
The service was not proactive in ensuring the safety of residents, risk assessments were poor and did not detail information or instructions to prevent reoccurrence of incidents or mitigate future risks to people in the home. There was not enough skilled, qualified and experienced members of staff to ensure people’s needs were being met in a timely manner, and inspectors had concerns that some people may not have been receiving their medication as prescribed. Required safety checks were not always completed which meant people were exposed to avoidable risks, and inspectors found that the home’s environment was malodorous and unclean in places, and had not had suitable adaptations made to enable those with dementia to navigate the home independently. Inspectors were concerned that care was not being delivered in line with guidance under the Mental Capacity Act 2005, as capacity assessments and best interest decisions were not well recorded, and some people may have had their liberty unlawfully restricted. 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.
A full report is available on this website.
Debbie Westhead, Deputy Chief Inspector of Adult Social Care in the North, said:
“The care we saw being provided at Denison House Nursing Home falls along way short of what we expect services to provide. It is unacceptable that the provider has failed to safeguard people from potential risk or implement effective systems to monitor the quality of care being provided.
“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 North Yorkshire 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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