Archived: Barton Brook Care Home

Updated 14 May 2016

We carried out this inspection under Section 60 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 as part of our regulatory functions. This inspection was planned to check whether the provider is meeting the legal requirements and regulations associated with the Health and Social Care Act 2008, to look at the overall quality of the service, and to provide a rating for the service under the Care Act 2014.

We undertook an unannounced focused inspection at Barton Brook Nursing and Residential Home on 6 April 2016. This inspection was undertaken to ensure improvements that were required to meet legal requirements had been implemented by the service following our last inspection in December 2015.

We inspected the service against one of the five questions we ask about services during an inspection, which were not meeting legal requirements. This was ‘Is the service safe.’

The inspection was undertaken by one pharmacist inspector from the Care Quality Commission.

Before the inspection, we reviewed all the information we held about the home. We reviewed statutory notifications and safeguarding referrals.

We also reviewed the action taken by the provider following our previous inspection, who wrote to us explaining what action the service had taken to meet legal requirements.

Updated 14 May 2016

We undertook this unannounced inspection of Barton Brook Nursing and Residential Home on Wednesday 6 April 2016.

There was a registered manager in post. A registered manager is a person who has registered with the CQC to manage the service. Like registered providers, they are ‘registered persons’. Registered persons have legal responsibility for meeting the requirements in the Health and Social Care Act 2008 and associated Regulations about how the service is run.

At our previous inspection in August 2014, June 2015 and December 2015, we found the home had failed to ensure people received their medication safely. At each of these inspections, there had been a breach of Regulation 12 Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulation 2014, in relation to safe care and treatment. Following our last inspection in December 2015, the home wrote to us telling us what action they would take to ensure people received their medication safely and any changes they intended to make.

During this inspection, we found appropriate systems were now in place with regards to the safe administration of medication. However, we could not improve the rating for ‘safe’ from requires improvement at this time, because to do so requires evidence of consistent good practice over time. We also only looked at aspects relating to the breach of regulations, rather than looking at the whole question relating to ‘safe.’ We will review this during our next planned comprehensive inspection of the home.