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What the CQC found at Blackwood Residential Care Home

Requires improvementpublished 17 November 2022, 3 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?
Good
Are people treated with kindness and dignity?
Responsive?
Good
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 Blackwood Residential Care Home.

The story over the years

Every inspection of Blackwood Residential Care Home

7 rated inspections over 7 years: the service has slipped, from Good to Requires improvement.

  1. November 2022Requires improvementcurrent ratingdown from Good
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: Requires improvementCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Requires improvement
  2. March 2019Goodup from Requires improvement
    Safe: GoodEffective: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Good
  3. March 2018Requires improvementup from Inadequate
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: Requires improvementCaring: GoodResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement
  4. January 2018Inadequatedown from Requires improvement
    Safe: InadequateEffective: Requires improvementCaring: InadequateResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Inadequate
  5. April 2017Requires improvementstayed Requires improvement
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement
  6. November 2016Requires improvementdown from Good
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: Requires improvementCaring: GoodResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement
  7. July 2015Good
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Good
  8. February 2024

    Registered with the Care Quality Commission on 2 February 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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10 live-in carers within about two hours of Cornwall

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 £1,200 a week. 8 can care for a couple. 12 years' experience on average.

Nicola H.
3 reviews
From £980 a week, 23 years caring
Based about 105 minutes from Cornwall. Can care for a couple
Klaudia S.
1 review
From £1,120 a week, 18 years caring
Based about 111 minutes from Cornwall. Can care for a couple
Leigh W.
From £1,120 a week, 11 years caring
Based about 19 minutes from Cornwall
Helen H.
From £998 a week, 11 years caring
Based about 51 minutes from Cornwall. Can care for a couple
“He had been a little anxious before she arrived, but has since stated that he would be very happy for her to care for him again”
Karen S., about Nicola H.
See live-in carers near CornwallProfiles, rates and reviews are free to look at.

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