Yarningdale

Updated 12 February 2022

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.

As part of CQC’s response to care homes with outbreaks of COVID-19, we are conducting reviews to ensure that the Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) practice is safe and that services are compliant with IPC measures. This was a targeted inspection looking at the IPC practices the provider has in place. We also asked the provider about any staffing pressures the service was experiencing and whether this was having an impact on the service.

This inspection took place on 18 January 2022 and was announced. We gave the service 24 hours’ notice of the inspection.

Updated 12 February 2022

About the service

Yarningdale Health Care is a residential care home providing personal and nursing care to 21 younger and older adults at the time of the inspection. The service can support up to 23 people. The service supports people in two buildings. One building is home to 22 people who are supported across two floors, the other building has been converted and supports one person. All bedrooms within the service have accessible en-suite bathrooms.

People’s experience of using this service and what we found

People received care and support from trained staff who understood how to protect them from harm and abuse. Staff understood how to report accidents and incidents, and the registered manager ensured these were reviewed and actioned appropriately.

People’s risks had been assessed and their care records provided staff with the information required to manage the risks identified.

Staff had received training in infection, prevention and control (IPC), the service had an IPC in place. Staff spoke with knowledge and confidence about how they managed risks in relation to COVID-19. We observed staff to be wearing the correct PPE throughout our inspection.

The registered manager had a quality assurance system in place to ensure all aspects of the service were audited and improvements were made where required.

The service provided a person-centred culture, people were involved in the planning of their care and had opportunities to suggest improvements to the service. People told us the improvements they had suggested had been actioned.

People, relatives and staff spoke positively about the registered manager and staff felt supported in their roles.

People were supported to have maximum choice and control of their lives and staff supported them in the least restrictive way possible and in their best interests; the policies and systems in the service supported this practice.

For more details, please see the full report which is on the CQC website at www.cqc.org.uk

Rating at last inspection

The last rating for this service was good last report (published 25 June 2019).

Why we inspected

We received concerns in relation to infection control. As a result, we undertook a focused inspection to review the key questions of safe and well-led only.

We looked at infection prevention and control measures under the safe key question. We look at this in all care home inspections even if no concerns or risks have been identified. This is to provide assurance that the service can respond to COVID-19 and other infection outbreaks effectively.

We found no evidence during this inspection that people were at risk of harm from this concern. Please see the safe and well-led sections of this full report.

We reviewed the information we held about the service. No areas of concern were identified in the other key questions. We therefore did not inspect them. Ratings from previous comprehensive inspections for those key questions were used in calculating the overall rating at this inspection.

Follow up

We will continue to monitor information we receive about the service until we return to visit as per our re-inspection programme. If we receive any concerning information we may inspect sooner.