About the service Beech Lodge Nursing Home is a nursing and residential care home providing accommodation, nursing and personal care to older people, people living with dementia and people with physical disabilities. The service can support up to 40 people. At the time of the inspection 35 people were living at Beech Lodge Nursing Home. Beech Lodge Nursing Home is an adapted building with all accommodation on the ground floor.
People’s experience of using this service and what we found
People received safe support with their medicines from staff members who had been trained and assessed as competent. Staff members followed effective infection prevention and control procedures when supporting people.
People were supported by enough staff who were available to assist them in a timely way.
People were protected from the risks of ill-treatment and abuse as staff had been trained to recognise potential signs of abuse and understood what to do if they suspected harm or abuse.
The provider had assessed the risks associated with people’s care and support. Staff members were knowledgeable about these risks and knew what to do to minimise the potential for harm.
People were supported to have maximum choice and control of their lives and the provider supported them in the least restrictive way possible and in their best interests; the application of the policies and systems supported good practice.
The provider, and management team, had good links with the local communities within which people lived. The provider had effective systems in place to identify improvements and drive good care.
For more details, please see the full report which is on the CQC website at www.cqc.org.uk
Rating at last inspection
The last rating for this service was good (published 28 September 2019).
Why we inspected
This inspection was prompted by concerns raised with us in relation to the management of medicines and staffing. As a result, we undertook a focused inspection to review the key questions of safe and well-led only. We found no evidence people were at risk from these concerns.
For those key questions not inspected, we used the ratings awarded at the last inspection to calculate the overall rating.
The overall rating for the service has remained good, based on the findings of this inspection.
We looked at infection prevention and control measures under the safe key question. We look at this in all care home inspections even if no concerns or risks have been identified. This is to provide assurance the service can respond to COVID-19 and other infection outbreaks effectively.
You can read the report from our last comprehensive inspection, by selecting the ‘all reports’ link for Beech Lodge Nursing Home on our website at www.cqc.org.uk
Follow up
We will continue to monitor information we receive about the service, which will help inform when we next inspect.