Archived: Baryen Health Care Ltd HQ

Updated 30 June 2015

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 was 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 inspection was to check that improvements had been made to meet legal requirements planned by the provider, after our comprehensive inspection on 10 February 2015. We inspected this service against one of the five questions we ask about services: is the service safe. This is because the service was not meeting some legal requirements.

Before our inspection we reviewed the information we held about the service, this included the provider’s action plan, which set out the action they would take to meet legal requirements.

This focused inspection took place on 3 June 2015. The provider was given short notice of the visit in line with our current methodology for inspecting domiciliary care agencies. The inspection team consisted of an adult social care inspector.

At the time of our inspection the service was only supporting a small number of people. We did not speak to people who used the service as the shortfalls we were checking were regarding records. We looked at records pertaining to staff recruitment, risk assessment and the administration of medicines.

Updated 30 June 2015

We carried out an unannounced comprehensive inspection of this service on 10 February 2015 in which a breach of the legal requirements was found in relation to staff recruitment. This report relates to that breach. You can read the report from our last comprehensive inspection, by selecting the 'all reports' link for ‘Baryen Health Care’ on our website at www.cqc.org.uk.

We carried out this focused inspection on 3 June 2015 to ensure improvements planned by the provider had been implemented to address this breach of Regulation. We found that action had been taken to improve the safety of the service provision.

Baryen Health Care is registered to provide personal care to people living in their own homes and transport for mental health conveyance. The service aims to provide care and support to older and younger people with a variety of needs. These include people living with dementia, mental health, misuse of drugs and alcohol, and people with a learning or physical disability. Care and support was co-ordinated from the services office which is based near Doncaster town centre.

The service had a registered manager in post at the time of 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 and associated Regulations about how the service is run.

At this focused inspection we found recruitment practices had been improved. We saw a structured recruitment process was in place to help make sure staff were suitable to work with vulnerable people and this had been followed. We found all staff files had been audited and action taken to make sure appropriate checks were in place for the staff supporting people.

We also saw improvements had been made with regards to recording the assessment of identified risks. Information about risks associated with people’s care now provided clearer guidance to staff about their role in supporting people’s safely.

At our last inspection we found where people needed assistance taking their medicines records lacked specific information about the medicines administered by staff. At this visit we saw new medication administration forms had been introduced which recorded all the information required.

We will review our rating for this service at our next comprehensive inspection to ensure the improvements made and planned, continue to be implemented and have been embedded into practice.