Archived: Gable Court Care Home

Updated 8 October 2015

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 was undertaken to check that the provider had made improvements to meet legal requirements after our 15 January 2015 inspection. We inspected the service against one of the five questions we ask about services: Is the service responsive? This is because people were not wholly protected from the risks of unsafe or inappropriate care and support as we saw care records were not always up to date. This posed a risk that staff may be referring to information which did not reflect people's current needs to ensure their care, welfare and safety.

This inspection took place on 09 September 2015 and was unannounced. It was undertaken by an inspector.

Before our inspection we reviewed information we held about the service and the provider such as the action plan the provider submitted setting out how they would become compliant with the breach identified at the previous inspection. During the inspection we spoke with one relative, four people using the service, two staff members, the acting manager and the quality manager. We looked at four care plans and other records relating to the care people were receiving for example turning charts and wound charts.

Updated 8 October 2015

This inspection took place on 09 September 2015 and was unannounced. At the last inspection on 15 January 2015 we saw care plans had not been reviewed monthly as outlined in the services record keeping policy and there was gap in the recording of care. After the comprehensive inspection, the provider wrote to us to say what they would do to meet legal requirements in relation to the breach.

We undertook this focused inspection to check that they had followed their plan and to confirm that they now met legal requirements. This report only covers our findings in relation to those requirements. You can read the report from our last comprehensive inspection, by selecting the 'all reports' link for Gable Court Nursing Home on our website at www.cqc.org.uk.

Gable Court Nursing Home provides personal care, including nursing care for up to 51 people in a purpose built building located in a residential area. The service is arranged over three floors and there are garden and patio areas. Most people’s rooms have an attached private bathroom.

The service does not have a registered manager in place. A registered manager is a person who has registered with the Care Quality Commission to manage the service. Like registered providers, they are ‘registered persons’. Registered persons have legal responsibility for meeting the requirements in the Health and Social Care Act 2008 and associated Regulations about how the service is run. The previous registered manager was no longer working for the service.

At this inspection we found the provider had taken sufficient action to ensure people were protected from the risks of unsafe care and support as we found care records had been reviewed and updated regularly to reflect the needs of people.