A CARE home has been rated as “requiring improvement” after inspectors labelled its service of safety, “inadequate”.

Ashville Care Home, in Sandmoor Garth, Idle, was deemed requiring improvement overall following the inspection in February this year.

While safety was branded inadequate, areas surrounding responsiveness and whether it was well-led also needed to be improved, while both effectiveness of its service and its caring towards residents were rated “good”.

Inspectors had rated the home “requiring improvement” following a visit in April 2015.

During this inspection there had been improvements to staffing, as requested, but also found breaches of regulation.

The report stated: “Although we found some good areas of practice during the inspection we rated the safe domain as ‘inadequate.’ This was because a number of concerns were found relating to management of risk, the premises, ‘as required’ medicines and prescribed creams. Some of these concerns were similar or identical to issues raised at the previous inspection, meaning we did not feel assured that they would promptly resolved.

“Most people received their medicines as prescribed. However, ‘as required’ medicines and topical creams were not always managed in a safe or proper way. We saw creams in two people’s bedrooms which were prescribed for other people.

“Since the last inspection care records had been transferred to an electronic care recording system. We found electronic care plans lacked detail about people’s specific care and support needs. Care records were not always accurate and were not always updated when people’s needs changed.”

It was noted, however, that people and relatives said staff were kind, caring and treated them with dignity and respect. People had access to suitably nutritious food and action was taken when people were at nutritional risk.

Staff had access to a range of training relevant to their role and said they felt well supported, with regular supervision and annual appraisal.

The report stated the registered manager, Wendy Selby, was “hands on”and regularly involved in care and support within the home.

The report showed details of where regulations were not being met and the manager was asked to send a report showing what action was going to be taken.

The regulations not being met were: safe care and treatment, safeguarding service users from abuse and maintenance of the premises.

The manager was unavailable for comment.