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Abacus Quality Care Ltd T/A Abacus Care Home

42-44 Rolleston Road, Burton-on-Trent, DE13 0JZ

Requires improvementpublished 16 June 2023, 3 years ago

Rated Requires improvement: inspectors found the service was not performing as well as it should and told it what to change.

The five questions inspectors ask
Safe?
Requires improvement
Are people protected from harm? Staffing, medicines, infection control, safeguarding.
Effective?
Requires improvement
Does the care work? Training, consent, food and drink, working with GPs and nurses.
Caring?
Good
Are people treated with kindness and dignity?
Responsive?
Good
Is care built around the person? Care plans, activities, complaints.
Well-led?
Requires improvement
Is the service run well? The manager, the culture, how problems get found and fixed.
The report

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The CQC published its most recent report on Abacus Quality Care Ltd T/A Abacus Care Home on 16 June 2023. We are still reading it. Check back soon, or read the report itself on cqc.org.uk.

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The story over the years

Every inspection of Abacus Quality Care Ltd T/A Abacus Care Home

4 rated inspections over 8 years: the service has held its Requires improvement rating throughout.

  1. June 2023Requires improvementcurrent ratingdown from Good
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: Requires improvementCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Requires improvement

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  2. August 2019Goodstayed Good
    Safe: GoodEffective: GoodWell-led: Good

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  3. November 2016Goodup from Requires improvement
    Safe: GoodEffective: Requires improvementCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Good

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  4. December 2015Requires improvement
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: Requires improvementCaring: GoodResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement

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  5. May 2013

    Report published without a new overall rating.

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  6. February 2013

    Report published without a new overall rating.

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  7. December 2012

    Report published without a new overall rating.

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  8. January 2012

    Report published without a new overall rating.

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  9. July 2011

    Registered with the Care Quality Commission on 7 July 2011.

Ratings and report dates from the Care Quality Commission. A service can also be visited without a new rating being published, so the timeline shows published inspections, not every contact the CQC has had with the service.

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