Archived: Brook - Luton

1st floor St Nicholas House, 15-17 George Street, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU1 2AF (01582) 748581

Provided and run by:
Brook East of England

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All Inspections

25 October 2012

During a routine inspection

The people we spoke with said they were provided with useful information and received full explanations and advice on their care and treatment at Brook Luton. They said they felt involved in the discussions and decisions made around their care. They told us they had no concerns about staff who were friendly and reassuring and appeared competent and professional. The people we spoke with said they had no concerns about the service but knew how to complain if they needed to.

During our visit we found peoples' contribution to discussions and decision making about their care to be documented. We found that each individual had their medical history and any risk factors specific to them reviewed and recorded. We saw that arrangements were in place to deal with foreseeable emergencies including appropriate staff training. We found that the nurses working at the service were appropriately registered. Staff were completing a program of mandatory training and were knowledgeable in such things as protecting people from the risk of abuse.

We found that the service had quality monitoring systems in place and people had a variety of methods available for them to share their views and opinions about the service. We noted that where actions to prevent the recurrence of incidents or changes to improve the service were required these were completed.

One person said of her visit to Brook Luton: "It's a friendly service and my overall experience has been good".