Archived: Wells Place Care Home

Updated 7 April 2017

We undertook an unannounced focused inspection of Wells Place Care Home on 2 and 9 March 2017. This inspection was done to check that improvements to check that the management of medicines was safe and met legal requirements. We inspected the service against one of the five questions we ask about services: is the service safe. This is because the service was not meeting some legal requirements at the comprehensive inspection on 20 and 24 June 2016.

Before our inspection we reviewed the information we held about the home and the action plan given to us by the provider following our previous inspection.

The inspection was undertaken by one inspector.

We spoke with the registered manager and six members of staff, which included three nurses, one care worker and two ancillary staff. We reviewed how medicines were managed and the records relating to their receipt, storage, administration and disposal.

Updated 7 April 2017

We carried out a comprehensive inspection of this service on 20 and 24 June 2016 and found a breach of legal requirements in relation to medicines management. As a response to this, the provider wrote to us to say what they would do to meet legal requirements in relation to the breach. We undertook this focussed inspection on the 2 and 9 March 2017 to check they had met the legal requirements. This report only covers our findings in relation to the requirement. You can read the report from our last comprehensive inspection, by selecting the 'all reports' link for ‘Wells Place Care Home’ on our website at www.cqc.org.uk

Wells Place Care Home is registered to provide accommodation and nursing care for up to 42 older people, some of whom are living with dementia. Accommodation is arranged over three floors, with access to the lower and upper floors via stairs or a passenger lift. 41 people were using the service at the time of this inspection.

The home had a registered manager who was present during the first day of our inspection. 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.

We found there were improvements in how medicines were managed. New audits and checks were in place although further work was required to embed and sustain consistent safe practice. We have not changed the rating for the safe question from requires improvement because to do so requires consistent good practice over time.