5 August 2015
During an inspection looking at part of the service
We carried out a comprehensive inspection of Bernash Care Home in February 2015. We found a breach of the legal requirements at that time. This related to care plans which did not provide clear information about the care a person required. After the inspection, the provider sent us a report of the action they would take to meet the legal requirements.
We undertook a focused inspection on 5 August 2015. This was to check on the actions taken by the provider and to confirm they now met the legal requirements. We also looked at matters arising from information we had received in recent weeks from the service and from the local authority. In particular, this information had raised concerns about how medicines were being managed and the support people received with keeping safe.
This report only covers our findings in relation to these specific areas. You can read the report from our last comprehensive inspection, by selecting the 'All reports' link for ‘Bernash Care Home’ on our website at www.cqc.org.uk
Bernash Care Home is a care home without nursing that provides personal care for up to 23 older people. The home mainly provides support for older people who are living with dementia. There were 22 people living at Bernash Care Home at the time of our inspection.
There was a registered manager in post. A registered manager is a person who has registered with the Care Quality Commission 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.
We found the provider was not meeting the legal requirements in one area. This involved people’s medicines; these were not being managed in a safe way which protected people. We also found that the staffing arrangements lacked a planned approach to ensure the needs of people living with dementia were well met.
Action had been taken to improve the system of care planning and to comply with the breach made at the last inspection. However, there were aspects which were not well developed. In particular, activities were not personalised and did not fully reflect the needs of people living with dementia.
We found one breach of the regulations during our inspection. You can see what action we told the provider to take at the back of the full version of the report.