Overview and CQC Inspections

OverallGood

Our inspector's description of this service

Last updated 24 October 2018
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 took place on 26 July 2018 and was the first inspection for this provider.  The inspection was unannounced and completed by one inspector. 

Before our inspection the provider sent us their completed Provider Information Return (PIR).  This is a form that asks the provider to give some key information about the service, what the service does well and any improvements they plan to make.  We spoke with local authority care commissioners for people’s care at the service.  We also looked at all of the key information we held about the service.  This included written notifications about any changes, significant events or incidents that providers must tell us about. 

We spoke with three people receiving care at the service, a care staff, the deputy manager and the registered manager.  We also spoke with two community professionals involved in people’s care at the service.  We looked at three people’s care records and other records relating to the management of the service.  This included staffing, medicines, complaints and safeguarding records; and the provider’s checks of quality and safety.  We did this to gain people’s views about their care and to check that standards of care were being met

Inspection ratings

We rate most services according to how safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led they are, using four levels:

Outstanding – the service is performing exceptionally well. 

Good – the service is performing well and meeting our expectations. 

Requires improvement – the service isn't performing as well as it should and we have told the service how it must improve. 

Inadequate – the service is performing badly and we've taken enforcement action against the provider of the service. 

No rating/under appeal/rating suspended – there are some services which we can’t rate, while some might be under appeal from the provider.  Suspended ratings are being reviewed by us and will be published soon. 

Ticks and crosses

We don't rate every type of service.  For services we haven't rated we use ticks and crosses to show whether we've asked them to take further action or taken enforcement action against them. 

There's no need for the service to take further action.  If this service has not had a CQC inspection since it registered with us, our judgement may be based on our assessment of declarations and evidence supplied by the service. 

The service must make improvements. 

At least one standard in this area was not being met when we inspected the service and we have taken enforcement action.