Regulator(CQC) Tells Arbory Residential Home It Is Not Protecting The Safety And Welfare Of People Who Use Its Services

Arbory Residential Home is not meeting 14 essential standards.

Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspectors who visited the Arbory Residential Home, located on the outskirts of Andover, found that it was failing to meet 14 essential standards of quality and safety.

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Oxford's Brookfield care home fails to meet standards

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A care home in Oxford left one resident in pain and others were poorly-monitored, inspectors have found.

The Brookfield Christian Care Home failed in seven essential areas, a Care Quality Commission (CQC) report shows.

Bosses at the Southern Cross-owned home now have 14 days to improve service at the home ahead of further inspection.

"A number of improvements in care provision and changes to management have been made at the home," a spokesman for the home said.

'Major concerns'

CQC inspectors visited the home in Greater Leys in December 2010 and again in January this year.

As well as the resident being left in pain because they had not been given their medication, inspectors found that the well-being and nutrition of other residents had been inadequately monitored.

Of the seven areas of failings inspectors identified, four caused "major concerns" which were:

• Care and welfare of people who use their services
• Meeting nutritional needs
• Management of medicines

Inspectors also had concerns in the following areas:

• Respecting and involving people who use their services
• Safeguarding people who use services from abuse
• Supporting staff
• Assessing and monitoring the quality of service provision

In the most serious cases the CQC said it could suspend or cancel a service, but this is regarded as a last resort.

However, a spokesman said: "The right outcome is if we highlight failings in standards and then they are quickly rectified to improve conditions for the residents living in the home."

GPC wants funding for CQC registration

All practices will be expected to register with the watchdog from April 2012. Unless the fee is paid directly by the Treasury, the GPC plans to submit evidence to the Doctors' and Dentists' Review Body calling for funding to cover it.

Dentists were obliged to register from April this year, and pay a £1,000 annual fee.

The rate for GPs is expected to be similar.

Although dentists pay the fee directly, the GPC has argued that dentists can raise additional income in ways that GPs cannot. GPC chairman Dr Laurence Buckman described the registration cost as 'a tax on doctors'.

The CQC system, which requires GPs to meet essential standards of quality and safety, was recently trialled by NHS Derbyshire across 21 practices.

Derbyshire LMC secretary Dr John Grenville said a key problem faced by the pilot practices was limited time to prepare. 'When it becomes real, practices will be given a fortnight,' he said.

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GPs face year of ‘severe stress’ over CQC red tape

GPs face ‘severe stress’ and up to 90 hours of preparatory work after it emerged that practices would be expected to submit evidence for the Care Quality Commission’s compulsory registration scheme from October 2011 in order to be registered by 1st April 2012 deadline.

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Care Home ordered to improve

A Kensington care home has been ordered to improve after an inspection found it was failing to meet certain standards.

The Care Quality Commission told 3 Beatrice Place, in Marloes Road that it must improve, after finding that it does not have procedures in place to make sure that patients' are fully consenting to treatment.

The home is a 24-bed home for older people with severe and enduring mental health needs, and should be assessing patients' capacity to consent to treatment, but the CQC inspection earlier this year found that this was not being done properly.

It is run by the Central and North West London Mental Health Foundation Trust.

Colin Hough, Regional director of CQC in London, said: "We have told the trust where it needs to do more to comply with essential standards and we have asked them to tell us what action they will take to improve.

"We will check to make sure that the improvements have been made

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Three Exeter care homes 'not meeting standards'

 

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Three care homes in Exeter are not meeting quality and safety standards, a health watchdog has said.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) told Devon County Council it was concerned about Alphin House, Arthur Roberts House and  Exebank Care Home.

The watchdog said delays in treatment could be putting people's health at risk while some practices undermined patient's dignity.

The council said it accepted there were problems and was working to fix them.

The residential homes cater for older people with a range of needs, including dementia and mental illness.

'Robust plans'

The CQC said that its inspectors, who visited the premises earlier in the year, found that not all staff showed residents respect.

Inadequate record keeping, staff arrangements and training for staff were also highlighted as concerns.

The council said that there could be no excuses and that it recognised the shortfalls, having identified many of them itself prior to inspections.

It said it had been in the early stages of putting new structures in place during the inspections.

Devon County Council said it accepted the inspectors' reports and analysis of the services.

Malcolm Vede, assistant director for adult and community services, said the council was "determined to do better" for residents.

It added: "We have agreed robust improvement plans for each home with CQC, and we will be commissioning our own independent forensic inspection of the homes in the near future to make sure we're getting it right."

HOSPITALS in Leeds are facing a £400,000 fine for having too many cases of the MRSA superbug.

Incidences have breached monthly targets four times over the last 10 months.

Every month that the number exceeds a target agreed by city health bosses, a £100,000 fine is levied on Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

That fine would be reimbursed if they meet the annual figure of 19 cases – but by the end of January, with two months to go before the end of the financial year, that had already been hit.

Director of informatics Alison Dailly said in a report: “The ‘allowable’ number of MRSA cases for the full year has therefore already been reached. Any further cases reported for the trust in February and March will therefore exceed the local objective of 19 cases for 2010-11.

“Provisional data for February 2011 shows that as at March 4, four trust-apportioned bacteraemia have so far been reported for the month.”

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Two Bristol care homes are told to improve

Two care homes for people with learning difficulties in Bristol have been told to improve standards.

A Care Quality Commission (CQC) spokesman said inspectors had visited St David's Lodge in Lodge Causeway and Hazelhurst in Filton.

The visits followed "serious concerns" raised by Bristol and South Gloucestershire councils, he said.

The spokesman said both the homes were found to be "failing to meet essential standards of quality and safety".

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Consortia given power over GP pay and contracts

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South Central Ambulance Service must provide better support and training for its staff, a health watchdog has said.

South Central Ambulance Service must provide better support and training for its staff, a health watchdog has said.

The independent Care Quality Commission (CQC) said the ambulance trust was still not meeting one of the essential standards of quality and safety.

It found that while standards had improved for 999 response times, the trust had failed to meet standards for staff training and supervision.

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