A BRADFORD nursing home owner is facing allegations of misconduct.

Patrick Berry is still manager and owner of Ivy House Nursing Home in Moorhead Lane, Shipley, which shut to residents in 2014 after being put into special measures by the Care Quality Commission.

That home is now being redeveloped, said a member of staff at P & C Care Ltd confirming its nursing director and mental health trained nurse Mr Berry is still owner and manager of a second home The Mount in Bolton Road near Peel Park which has up to 40 residents, some with dementia and other mental health conditions.

If the five allegations are found against Mr Berry next week when he appears before the Nursing and Midwifery Council, he could be struck off as a nurse. Whether or not he could continue to manage a nursing home would depend on any sanctions imposed.

The three-day Conduct and Competence Committee hearing in London which starts on Monday will hear allegations of up to 20 incidents that took place while he was the registered manager of Ivy House between 2012 and 2014.

The allegations are that he failed to register one of his residents with a GP from December 6, 2012 to January 10, 2013 and that he failed to make sure one or more peoples’ prescribed medications were available.

On January 11, 2014 it is alleged he went to Saltaire Medical Centre to register a resident who had already been removed from the home.

Between January 2013 and April 2014, he allegedly failed to make sure the home was providing adequate practice and care because it was in a dirty and unclean state, reads the Nursing & Midwifery Council’s allegations list.

It goes on to list alleged failings around blood sugar monitoring in care plans, patients records not being easily available to staff and service users at the home and that one patient’s risk assessment not being reviewed for about five months.

He also failed, it is alleged, to make sure staff at Ivy House were regularly recording the weight of three patients and that staff there understood proper safeguarding procedures.

It is alleged he failed to make sure an adequate care plan was in place to manage one patients’ Parkinsons condition and that around April 2013 he also failed to ensure seven patients’ personal and hygiene needs were met and that their dignity was being maintained.

In December 2014, the Telegraph & Argus reported how residents were to be removed from Ivy House due to “serious concerns” over the way it was being run.

It had failed a surprise inspection by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) earlier that year with the owners being told to make improvements. CQC inspectors found evidence of violence between residents, while others were discovered to be heavily unshaven, unkempt and with long, dirty fingernails. Another inspection in November 2014 had prompted Bradford Council and other authorities to assign social care specialists to closely monitor the 21 residents there at the time until they could be suitably re-homed.

The latest CQC inspection at The Mount found while the home’s caring aspect was good, it was being inadequately led and overall required improvements.

Despite the T&A contacting P & C Care Ltd, Mr Berry did not comment.