Archived: Beeches House

Updated 23 April 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 checked 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 unannounced focused inspection was undertaken by a single inspector on 31 March 2016. This inspection was carried out to check all the improvements the provider said they would take to ensure they met their legal requirements had been implemented. We inspected the service against one of the five questions we ask about services: Is the service well led?

Before our inspection we reviewed the information we held about the service. This included notifications the provider had sent to us since their last inspection and the action plan we had asked them to send us. The action plan set out how the provider intended to meet the regulations they had breached.

During our inspection we visited the home and spoke with the trainee manager and two care staff, and talked with the services director over the telephone. We also looked at various records that related to the management and clinical governance of the service.

Updated 23 April 2016

The last inspection of this home was carried out on 08 December 2015 when we found the provider was in breach of two regulations. This was because the provider had failed to notify the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in a timely manner about all the incidents and events involving people who lived at Beeches House. This related specifically to several incidents that had adversely affected their health and welfare, including a death, several serious injuries and the outcome of a number of Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) applications. People can only be deprived of their liberty to receive care and treatment when this is in their best interests and legally authorised under the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA). The application procedures for this in care homes is called the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS).

After the home’s last unannounced comprehensive inspection, the provider wrote to us to say what they would do to meet their legal requirements in relation to these breaches. We undertook an unannounced focused inspection on 31 March 2016 to check the provider had followed their action plan and now met legal requirements.

This report only covers our findings in relation to this topic. You can read the report from our last comprehensive inspection, by selecting the 'all reports' link for ‘Beeches House’ on our website at www.cqc.org.uk’

Beeches House is a care home that provides accommodation and personal care for up to 12 people. The home specialises in supporting older adults who have learning disabilities. The home also caters for people living with physical disabilities. There were nine people living at the home when we inspected.

The service had a registered manager in post. A registered manager is a person who has registered with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to manage the service. Like registered providers, they are ‘registered persons’. Registered persons have a legal responsibility for meeting the requirements in the Health and Social Care Act and associated Regulations about how the service is run.

During our focused inspection, we found that the provider had followed their action plan, which they had said would be completed by 31 March 2016. We saw legal requirements had been met because the provider now notified the CQC in a timely way about the occurrence of any incidents and events that affected the health, safety and welfare of people using the service.