Last updated 25 September 2018
We carried out this inspection under Section 60 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 as part of our regulatory functions. The 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.

We undertook an unannounced focused inspection of Woodside Care Home on 13 and 19 June 2018. This was to check that the improvements to meet legal requirements planned by the provider after our comprehensive inspection of September 2017 had been made.

In preparation for our visit we reviewed information that we held about the home such as notifications (events which happened in the home that the provider is required to tell us about) and the reports of our previous inspections of the home. We also took account of information shared with us by the local authority safeguarding and contracting teams from their ongoing investigation of concerns relating to the cleanliness of the home and infection control practices.

We inspected the home against two of the five questions we ask about services: ‘Is the service safe?’ and ‘Is the service well-led’. On the first day of our inspection our team consisted of an inspector and a specialist advisor whose specialism is nursing. On the second day our inspector returned alone to complete the inspection.

During our inspection we spent time observing how staff provided care for people to help us better understand their experiences of the care they received. We spoke with the registered manager, the deputy manager and two members of the care staff team.

We looked at a range of documents and written records including five people’s care files, two staff recruitment records and cleaning schedules. We also looked at information relating to the administration of medicines and the auditing and monitoring of service provision.