Archived: Nethercrest Nursing Home

Updated 31 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.

This was an unannounced focused inspection which was undertaken on 1 February 2016 by a CQC Specialist Pharmacist inspector.

The purpose of our inspection was to check that improvements to meet legal requirements planned by the provider after our comprehensive inspection on 3 August 2015 had been made. We inspected against one of the five questions we ask about services; 'Is the service safe?' This is because the provider was previously not meeting some legal requirements in relation to this question.

We checked the information we held about the service and the provider. This included the provider's action plan, which set out the action they would take to meet legal requirements. We requested information about the service from the pharmacist from the local Clinical Commissioning Group.They have responsibility for funding people who used the service and monitoring its quality.

On the day of our inspection we spoke with the registered manager and two agency nursing staff. We looked at 14 people’s medicine records and the overall management of people’s medicines. 

Updated 31 May 2016

We carried out an unannounced comprehensive inspection of this service on 3 August 2015  at which a breach of a legal requirement was found.  We asked the provider to take action to make improvements to how they managed people's medicines. This was to make sure people's medicines were managed safely.

After our comprehensive inspection on 3 August 2015 the provider wrote to us to say what they would do to meet legal requirements in relation to the breach. They sent us an action plan setting out what they would do to make the improvements and meet the legal requirements and when their actions would be completed by.

We undertook this focused inspection on 1 February 2016 to check the provider had followed their plan and to confirm they now met the legal requirements. This report only covers our findings in relation to those requirements.

You can read the report from our last comprehensive inspection by selecting the 'all reports' link for Nethercrest Nursing Home on our website at www.cqc.org.uk.

The provider for Nethercrest Nursing Home is registered to provide care and accommodation with nursing for up to 41 people who may have dementia and or physical disabilities. On the day of our inspection there were 30 people living at the home.

The registered manager was present during our inspection. 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.

At our focused inspection on the 1 February 2016, we found that the provider had taken action and legal requirements had been met. This is because our Pharmacist Specialist  found that sufficient improvements had been made to ensure people’s medicines were managed safely. 

This report only covers our findings in relation to our following up of the previous breach. You can read the report from our last comprehensive inspection by selecting the all reports link on our website at www.cqc.org.uk.