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Dementia Care & Support at Home Limited, Swinton, Manchester.

Dementia Care & Support at Home Limited in Swinton, Manchester is a Homecare agencies specialising in the provision of services relating to caring for adults over 65 yrs, dementia and personal care. The last inspection date here was 25th July 2018

Dementia Care & Support at Home Limited is managed by Dementia Care & Support at Home Limited.

Contact Details:

    Address:
      Dementia Care & Support at Home Limited
      147 Manchester Road
      Swinton
      Manchester
      M27 4FH
      United Kingdom
    Telephone:
      01616374217
    Website:

Ratings:

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Safe: Good
Effective: Good
Caring: Good
Responsive: Good
Well-Led: Good
Overall: Good

Further Details:

Important Dates:

    Last Inspection 2018-07-25
    Last Published 2018-07-25

Local Authority:

    Salford

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Inspection Reports:

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22nd June 2018 - During a routine inspection pdf icon

This announced inspection took place on 21 and 22 June 2018. The inspection was announced because the service provides a domiciliary care service and we needed to make sure the registered manager would be available to facilitate the inspection.

Dementia Care & Support at Home is a domiciliary care service based in the Swinton area of Salford, Greater Manchester. People using the service receive care and support from staff at home, with packages of care funded by both the local authority and self-funders.

This was the first inspection we had carried out at Dementia Care & Support at Home. This was because the service re-registered with CQC in May 2017 and meant any previous inspections were associated with the old location.

At the time of the inspection there were approximately 42 people using the service, however only 38 were in receipt of a regulated activity which was personal care. Other people using the service were supported with domestic duties such as cooking and cleaning. As such we only focussed on people in receipt of a regulated activity during the inspection.

During this inspection, we found the service to be meeting the requirements of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014, however have made four recommendations regarding accident and incident monitoring, care plans, medication and staff team meetings.

There was a registered manager in post. A registered manager is a person who has registered with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to manage the service. Like registered providers, they are 'registered persons.' Registered persons have legal responsibility for meeting the requirements in the Health and Social Care Act 2008 and associated Regulations about how the service is run.

People told us they felt safe as result of the care and support they received and staff understood their responsibility with regards to safeguarding and how to report concerns.

Staff were recruited safely, with appropriate checks undertaken before staff commenced employment.

Staff told us they felt there were sufficient numbers of staff available to support people and said their weekly rotas were well managed. Some people said staff did not always turn up on time, but said they were contacted by staff from the office to let them know what was going on. People said missed visits were rare, but were again kept informed by staff.

People had individual risk assessments in their care plans and the service maintained and log of any accidents and incidents which had occurred, which detailed any follow up actions taken. Trends analysis of accidents was not routinely undertaken and we have made a recommendation about this in the detailed findings of the report.

People told us they received their medication on time and said staff watched them taking it and gave them a glass of water. We did identify missing signatures on four people’s medication administration records (MAR) we looked at. Medication audits of these MAR had stated there we no gaps in recording. We did note however that staff had recorded in the daily communication log, that people had been given their medication as prescribed. We have made a recommendation about this in the detailed findings of the report.

Staff told us they received enough training, induction, supervision and appraisal to support them in their role.

People told us they received enough to eat and drink. Staff had a good understanding about how to support people, such as ensuring people received plenty of extra fluids during the hot weather.

The people we spoke with told us they were happy with the care and support they received and described staff as kind and caring.

At the time of the inspection the registered manager was in the process of re-writing all care plans within the service. Therefore, staff were using the support plan provided by the local authority, where an overview of each person’s care needs was recorded. We have made a recommendation about this in

 

 

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