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What the CQC found at Ashbourne Care Home

Requires improvementpublished 8 March 2024, 2 years ago

Rated Requires improvement: inspectors found the home was not performing as well as it should and told it what to change.

The five questions inspectors ask

Safe?: Requires improvement; Are people protected from harm? Staffing, medicines, infection control, safeguarding.
Effective?: Requires improvement; Does the care work? Training, consent, food and drink, working with GPs and nurses.
Caring?: Requires improvement; Are people treated with kindness and dignity?
Responsive?: Requires improvement; Is care built around the person? Care plans, activities, complaints.
Well-led?: Requires improvement; Is the home run well? The manager, the culture, how problems get found and fixed.

The report

We have not explained this report yet

The CQC has not yet published an inspection report for Ashbourne Care Home.

The story over the years

Every inspection of Ashbourne Care Home

Each visit the CQC has published, newest first, back to the day the home was registered.

March 2024Requires improvementcurrent rating
Safe: Requires improvementEffective: Requires improvementCaring: Requires improvementResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement
March 2021Inspected but not rated
Safe: Inspected but not rated
March 2024
Registered with the Care Quality Commission on 22 March 2024.

Ratings and report dates from the Care Quality Commission, Open Government Licence v3.0. A home can also be visited without a new rating being published, so the timeline shows published inspections.

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Care at home

At least 100 live-in carers within about an hour of Dudley

These are self-employed carers on PrimeCarers, the introductory agency that runs this directory. Each has a profile with their own rates and reviews from families, and you choose who to talk to.

Most charge £980 to £1,210 a week. 87 can care for a couple. 10 years' experience on average.

Ikesinachi O.

1 review

From £945 a week, 6 years caring

Based about 8 minutes from Dudley. Can care for a couple

Simangele K.

2 reviews

From £1,120 a week, 25 years caring

Based about 12 minutes from Dudley. Can care for a couple

Amandeep B.

1 review

From £1,166 a week, 7 years caring

Based about 15 minutes from Dudley. Can care for a couple

Sybel N.

2 reviews

From £1,050 a week, 20 years caring

Based about 19 minutes from Dudley. Can care for a couple

“I have never met a person who is so kind and thinks about others before himself to such an extent as Chris Malagala.”

Brian G., about Chris M.

“Knowing Mum was in Corina's care made an enormous difference to us and we knew she was in safe hands.”

Katherine J., about Sibonisiwe N.

See live-in carers near DudleyProfiles, rates and reviews are free to look at.

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