CQC report explained · a residential care home
What the CQC found at Kings Den
Rated Good: inspectors found the home performing well and meeting their expectations.
What inspectors found, August 2022
Rated Requires Improvement; inspectors found kind, person-centred care but important safety, recruitment and management systems were not reliable enough.
This was the home's first inspection. It was an unannounced comprehensive inspection on 29 and 30 June 2022. One inspector observed care, spoke with people, staff and professionals, and checked care records, medicines, recruitment files, audits and safety checks.
People and professionals spoke positively about the care and leadership. Staff knew people well, supported their independence and helped them take part in activities, education, work and community life. The ratings for Effective, Caring and Responsive were Good.
The home did not always manage risks, medicines, infection control or recruitment safely. Records were not always current, and quality checks did not reliably find these problems. The provider started an improvement plan and took some action during the inspection, but the overall rating was Requires Improvement.
The Safe and Well-led ratings were Requires Improvement. The report says this gave limited assurance about safety and meant there was an increased risk that people could be harmed, although inspectors found no evidence that people had been harmed.
The report does not single out particular strengths.
Inspectors raised no specific concerns in this report.
This was an unannounced comprehensive inspection of the newly registered home, covering all five key questions and infection prevention and control under Safe; this was the first inspection, so there were no previous ratings to carry over. This explanation was written from the published report of 10 August 2022 by an AI system and checked against the report text: every quoted line appears in the report. It is a guide to the report, not a substitute for it. Read the full report on cqc.org.uk.
Every inspection of Kings Den
Each visit the CQC has published, newest first, back to the day the home was registered.
- August 2022Requires improvementcurrent ratingSafe: Requires improvementEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Requires improvement
- April 2021
Registered with the Care Quality Commission on 16 April 2021.
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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