A CARE home has been told to improve after quality inspectors found supposedly administered tablets on the floor under a resident’s bed.

Care Quality Commission inspectors who visited The Borrins Care Home in Station Road, Baildon, in August this year also discovered another tablet meant for the same resident was still floating in a glass of water, despite a senior staff member signing a report sheet to confirm the medication had been taken.

The inspectors said systems and ways of managing medicines at the home which had 25 residents over the age of 65 at the time, were neither safe or effective.

They also saw a resident administered tablets left overnight in pot on the medicine trolley with nothing but a slip of paper with their name on it to indicate the medication was meant for them. “This was unsafe practice as the staff member could not be certain that the medicine in the pot was the correct one as it had been removed from the original packaging,” said the inspectors’ report.

A GP also had to be contacted after inspectors intervened with concerns over sedatives being given to one person without any reasons being recorded why. Another resident prescribed laxatives three times day had been given the does all in one go without anyone checking it was safe.

Controlled medicines were also supposed to be checked weekly but according to a register, it was last check almost two months before the Inspectors’ visit which breached the Health and Social Care Act 2008, said the CQC report.

The home was ranked as good in the caring and being effective categories of the inspectors’ report but needs to improve its safety, the way it is led and its responsiveness.

A spokesperson for the home, which is part of the BUPA group, said: “We are pleased that the CQC recognised that our staff are kind and caring and that they support our residents.

“However, when the CQC reviewed the home in August they identified a few areas where we needed to improve.

“We are committed to ensuring we provide the very best care for our residents and acted immediately.

“We have changed how we administer medication and reviewed how we document the care we provide.

“The health and wellbeing of our residents is our top priority.”