The inspection took place on 12 June 2018, it was unannounced.

Holy Name Care Home is a purpose built home encompassing a church site and is situated in a residential area of North Hull; it is close to main bus routes into Hull city centre. The service is registered to provide personal and nursing care for a maximum of 64 people, some of whom may be living with dementia. The bedrooms are all for single occupancy and all have en suites which consist of a shower, sink and toilet. There is a large dining room, a number of open plan seating areas, two small conservatories, a hairdressing salon and courtyard gardens for people to use. The service has a separate area for people living with dementia called Penny Lane.

Holy Name is a 'care home'. People in care homes receive accommodation and nursing or personal care as single package under one contractual agreement. CQC regulates both the premises and the care provided, and both were looked at during this inspection.

The service had a registered manager in place. A registered manager is a person who has registered with the Care Quality Commission 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.

At the last inspection in May 2017 we found four breaches of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014 in regulation 9, person-centred care, regulation 12, safe care and treatment, regulation 14, meeting nutritional and hydration needs and regulation 17, good governance.

Following the last inspection, we asked the provider to complete an action plan to show what they would do and by when to improve the key questions safe, effective, responsive and well-led to at least good.

At this inspection we found continued breaches in person-centred care, safe care and treatment and good governance, and that care had not been provided in a safe way for some people living at the service. Governance and quality monitoring was not robust. The provider had improved the monitoring of people’s nutritional and hydration needs to ensure this breach of regulation was resolved. The service has been rated requires improvement for the second time.

There remained some areas of concern regarding management and administration. One person may have been given medicine to help calm them when their behaviour was settled. Action was not taken to liaise with people’s GP’s to change the times of their eye drops to ensure they were not asleep. People’s medicine was not always in stock and there were gaps on medicine administration records. Further guidance for staff about ‘when required’ medicine and ‘variable dose medicine’ needed to be put in place for staff. Recording of a controlled medicine was found to be inaccurate. Supplementary charts to help staff assess people’s medicine needs were not always completed.

Some people’s care records were person-centred with their likes, dislikes and preferences for their care and support recorded and their risk assessments were detailed. However, other people’s care records still did not contained all the correct information to make sure their full and current needs could be met. Further work still needed to be undertaken in this area. Staff contacted health care professionals for help and advice to maintain people’s wellbeing. End of life care was provided at the service.

Quality assurance checks and audits had been improved in relation to maintaining people’s nutritional and hydration needs. However, other quality assurance checks and audits were not robust; they had failed to find the issues we found during our inspection. Further work was required in this area.

Staff protected people from harm and abuse and understood how to report concerns to the management team, local authority and to the Care Quality Commission. This helped to prot

This inspection took place on 15 and 16 May 2017 and was unannounced. At the last inspection on 20 and 22 April 2015, the overall rating for the service was Good.

Holy Name Care Home is a purpose built home encompassing a church site and is situated in a residential area of North Hull; it is close to main bus routes into Hull city centre. The service is registered to provide personal and nursing care for a maximum of 64 people, some of whom may be living with dementia. The bedrooms are all for single occupancy and all have en suites which consist of a shower, sink and toilet. There is a large dining room, a number of open plan seating areas, two small conservatories, a hairdressing salon and courtyard gardens for people to use. The service has a separate area for people living with dementia called Penny Lane.

The service had a registered manager; they also managed the company’s other service in Beverley. This was a temporary arrangement whilst recruitment was underway for a new manager. A registered manager is a person who has registered with the Care Quality Commission 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.

We found that people had not always received their medicines as prescribed. This was due to unclear guidance in one instance and in others, staff recorded people as asleep for specific medicines at night. Staff had not referred back to people’s GPs for advice regarding adjusting the times.

We found some people at risk regarding their food and fluid intake, and fluctuations in their weight were not monitored effectively. This meant people could lose large amounts of weight before this was identified and a plan put in place to address the loss. Menus provided people with choices and alternatives and people told us they liked the meals.

We found people had assessments of need completed but staff had not always recorded important information in care plans about how these were to be met. This meant staff may not have had full guidance on how to care for people in an individual way.

You can see what action we have asked the registered provider to take regarding these concerns at the back of the full version of the report.

Staff had received training in how to protect people from the risk of harm and abuse. There were also policies and procedures for additional guidance. Staff knew what to do if they had concerns, who to raise these with and which agencies to notify. Staff produced risk assessments for people to help minimise risk, whilst still ensuring people could make their own choices and decisions.

People who used the service were supported to make their own decisions and staff knew they had to gain consent prior to carrying out care tasks. When people were assessed as lacking capacity, meetings were held to discuss what decisions were to be made in their best interest. Some adjustments were required to the paperwork to make sure it was clear who was consulted in the decision-making.

People had access to community health professionals for advice and treatment. Staff knew when to consult these professionals.

Staff were recruited safely which ensured employment checks were in place prior to new staff starting work. There were sufficient staff employed to meet people’s needs but two people who used the service and some health professionals commented about the availability of staff. The registered manager told us they would speak with people who used the service about this and look at the deployment of staff at peak times to see if this could be addressed.

People told us staff had a kind and caring approach. We saw people’s privacy and dignity was respected and observed many positive interactions between staff and the people they cared for. Staff knew how to promote people’s independence and need to make thei

When we inspected the service in October 2013 we found shortfalls in the quality of some of the care records and that some staff had limited understanding about the safeguarding reporting procedures. We also found some of the maintenance systems did not fully protect people from the risks associated with unsafe premises.

We re-visited the service to check the necessary improvements had been made. We found improvements had been made to the care plan records; people’s needs in all areas had been properly assessed and detailed care plans were in place to direct staff on the care and support required.

People we spoke with told us they received the care and support they needed and they were happy with how staff delivered their care. Comments included: “I’m very satisfied with the care here; I’m so relieved that I’ve settled and I’m happy” and “The staff are lovely and kind, nothing is too much trouble for them.” A relative told us, “Mum is well looked after.”

People told us they felt safe and one person said, "Staff always speak politely; they are very obliging and helpful.” We found people were protected from abuse; staff had training in safeguarding adults and demonstrated a better understanding of the reporting procedures.

People spoken with told us they were settled and comfortable at the service. We found improvements had been made to aspects of the maintenance systems to ensure people were better protected from the risks associated with unsafe premises.

We visited the service following concerns received about the effective management of some maintenance systems. We had also been made aware of some concerns about people’s care and welfare.

People we spoke with told us they received the care and support they needed and they were very happy with how staff delivered their care. One person told us, “Staff are very kind and are always there to help me.” A visitor said, “We have been very satisfied with the care mum gets, she is very settled.” However we found not all people’s needs were assessed and their care and treatment was not always planned effectively.

A visiting health professional told us that staff were now making appropriate referrals for routine and emergency support with health care issues.

People told us they felt safe and comments included, "Happy here" and "Staff are polite and respectful." However people were not fully protected from abuse as some staff had limited understanding about the types of incidents they should report and which external agencies they could report concerns to.

People spoken with told us they liked their home. They said it was warm and very comfortable. The premises were clean. The quality of décor and furnishings was of high standard. However we found some of the maintenance systems did not fully protect people from the risks associated with unsafe premises.

We carried out this inspection in response to information we had received which indicated the provider may not be meeting some of the standards of quality and safety. This was in relation to a the standard of care being provided and the management of medicines.

We spoke with people who used the service who told us they received a good standard of care. One person told us,"If I use the call bell it does not take long before someone comes to see me.” Another person told us, “I am quite independent and I can go to the toilet myself if I need to”. A third person told us, “Staff are very good here, they see to things quickly.”

Staff we spoke with were knowledgeable about the individual needs of people who used the service and gave consistent accounts of how they were supported. We saw several good examples of interactions between staff and people who used the service. We found people's needs were assessed and care and treatment was planned and delivered in line with their individual care plan.

We also looked at the management of medicines. We observed people being given their morning and lunchtime medicines. Staff carried out the task in the morning by visiting people in their bedrooms and then later we observed staff administering medicines in the dining area. On both occasions we saw staff carry out the task of administering medicines safely and spoke to people in a kind and respectful way. They patiently waited and stayed with the person to make sure that medicines were properly swallowed and correctly signed the medicine chart afterwards. We saw that medication was dispensed on an individual basis and people were seen to take their medication before staff left them.

We spoke to three people who used the service in the dining area who told us they were happy with the way their medication had been administered. One person who used the service told us, “I have medication twice a day and they bring the medication to me.” Another person said, “I have my medication after eight o clock in the morning during breakfast.” One other person said,"I have my medication with water."

We spoke with four people who used the service, three staff, two relatives, two managers and the provider.

People told us that care staff were, “Very good, polite and courteous and that they consulted them about the care they received.” And “I feel very safe here and the staff are very good at supporting me when I need my hospital appointments”. A visiting relative told us their family member, “Only had to ask about anything and the staff would sort it out”.

We saw care plans that highlighted the monitoring and evaluations of support that was provided, together with evidence that people had contributed and been involved in aspects of this, to ensure their individual wishes and preferences were met.

We spoke with three staff who demonstrated knowledge about the different types of abuse and who told us how they would report any concerns.

The manager told us that, “All staff have a supervision six times per year where training requirements are discussed. In addition to this an annual appraisal takes place to review staff performance and development needs."

We saw evidence of a complaints process and records which ensured concerns from people who used the service, relatives and the general public were captured and acted on.

Holy Name Care Home is a purpose built service encompassing a church site, situated in a residential area of North Hull. The service has a number of open plan areas and two conservatories. The service is registered with the Care Quality Commission [CQC] to provide care, including nursing care, and accommodation for 64 older people, some of whom may be living with dementia. There is a designated dementia unit on the ground floor which has level access to the garden so people with mobility issues can access this easily. People can bring personal items with them when they move into the service and there are no restrictions on visiting times. A laundry service is provided and designated staff are employed to undertake this. The service is situated on a main public bus routes into Hull City Centre.

There were 51 people living at the service at the time of the inspection.

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

This inspection was unannounced and took place on the 20 and 22 April 2015. The service was last inspected in August 2014 and was found to be noncompliant with one of the regulations inspected at that time.

Staff could recognise abuse and knew the provider’s procedure for reporting any abuse they may witness or become aware of. They had received training about what abuse was and how to keep people safe. Trained staff, who had been recruited safely, were provided in enough numbers both during the day and at night to meet the needs of the people who used the service; this included nurses. The service was clean and tidy and there were no unpleasant odours. People could if they wished administer their own medicines, however, if they found this difficult staff did this for them. This was done by both the nursing staff and senior care staff who had received training.

The food provided for people was wholesome and nutritious; people’s likes and dislikes had been taken into account and the menus were devised with the input of people who used the service through meetings and discussions. Staff monitored people’s food and fluid intake and involved health care professionals when needed. People were provided with a fortified diet if needed to maintain their health and wellbeing. Staff supported people who used the service to lead a healthy life style and supported them to access their GP or other health care professionals when requested or required. People’s human rights were respected and upheld by staff who had received training in the principles of the Mental Capacity Act 2005.

People who used the service were cared for by staff who understood their needs, were kind and compassionate and who they had good relationships with. People were involved in their care, or if they needed support with this staff consulted their relatives or the person designated to act on their behalf. Reviews were held about people’s care and they were involved with this. People were cared for by staff who understood the importance of respecting people’s privacy and dignity.

The service provided a range of activities for people to participate in, which included activities within the service and in the local community. People were supported to pursue individual hobbies and interests and staff took the time to engage those people who were living with dementia in meaningful activities. Staff made sure people had access to their doctor when they needed this and supported people to attend hospital appointments. People who used the service or their relatives could raise concerns or complaints if they felt the need and these were investigated by the service to the complainant’s satisfaction whenever possible. If people were not happy with the way the service had handled or investigated their complaint, they were provided with information about how to access external independent agencies. For example, the local authority or the Local Government Ombudsman service.

People were consulted about the running of the service. The registered manager undertook surveys and meetings to establish people’s satisfaction with the way the service was run. This included the opinions of people’s relatives and others who had an interest in their welfare. The registered manager undertook audits which ensured people lived in a well-run and safe service. Staff were consulted about the running of the service and meetings were held on a regular basis to ensure information was shared. The registered manager analysed all incidents and accidents to see if there were any trends or patterns and put action plans in place to address any shortfall identified. The registered manager informed the CQC of any notifiable incidents so we had up to date information on which to assess the on-going quality of the service provided.