Last updated 8 December 2018
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 inspection took place on 17 October 2018 and was unannounced. The inspection was carried out by two inspectors.

Prior to this inspection we reviewed all the information we held about the service, including data about safeguarding and statutory notifications. Statutory notifications are information about important events which the provider is required to send us by law. This enabled us to ensure we were addressing potential areas of concern at the inspection. We used information the provider sent us in the Provider Information Return. This is information we require providers to send us at least once annually to give some key information about the service, what the service does well and improvements they plan to make.

During our inspection we observed the care people received and spoke with the registered providers, two staff members, three people and one relative. Following the inspection, we spoke with a second staff member and one relative. We also received email correspondence from the consultant employed by the provider.

We reviewed a range of documents about people’s care and how the home was managed. We looked at four care plans, medicines administration records, risk assessments, accident and incident records, complaints records, policies and procedures and internal audits.