27 April 2021
During an inspection looking at part of the service
Aberdeen House is a residential care home providing personal and nursing care to 12 people aged 65 and over at the time of the inspection. The service can support up to 18 people.
Aberdeen House accommodates people in one building. People have access to a communal lounge, conservatory and garden space. There is not a separate dining room, but people are able to use tables in a visitor's room or the conservatory if they wish to.
People’s experience of using this service and what we found
Improvements had been made to the service’s infection prevention and control procedures. Assurances were provided staff were consistently putting on and taking off personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with government guidance.
Cleaning schedules for high touch areas had been implemented and were being regularly completed.
People were receiving medicines safely. Relevant guidance was in place and being used by staff to ensure medicines were administered in accordance with how they were prescribed.
For more details, please see the full report which is on the CQC website at www.cqc.org.uk
Rating at last inspection (and update)
The last rating for this service was requires improvement (published 25 March 2021).
At this inspection enough improvement had been made and the provider was no longer in breach of regulation 12.
Why we inspected
This inspection was carried out to follow up on action we told the provider to take at the last inspection.
We undertook this targeted inspection to check whether the warning notice we previously served in relation to Regulation 12 (safe care and treatment) of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014 had been met on concerns about the use and disposal of PPE, cleaning and medicine administration. The overall rating for the service has not changed following this targeted inspection and remains requires improvement.
CQC have introduced targeted inspections to follow up on warning notices or to check specific concerns. They do not look at an entire key question, only the part of the key question we are specifically concerned about. Targeted inspections do not change the rating from the previous inspection. This is because they do not assess all areas of a key question.
You can read the report from our last comprehensive inspection, by selecting the ‘all reports’ link for Aberdeen House on our website at www.cqc.org.uk.
Follow up
We will continue to monitor information we receive about the service until we return to visit as per our re-inspection programme. If we receive any concerning information we may inspect sooner.