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Alston View Nursing and Residential Home

Fell Brow, Longridge, Preston, PR3 3NT

Requires improvementpublished 4 July 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?
Good
Does the care work? Training, consent, food and drink, working with GPs and nurses.
Caring?
Requires improvement
Are people treated with kindness and dignity?
Responsive?
Requires improvement
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

We have not explained this report yet

The CQC has not yet published an inspection report for Alston View Nursing and Residential Home. That is usual for a newly registered service.

The story over the years

Every inspection of Alston View Nursing and Residential Home

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

  1. July 2023Requires improvementcurrent rating
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: GoodCaring: Requires improvementResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement
  2. March 2022Inspected but not rated
    Safe: Inspected but not rated
  3. July 2021Requires improvementstayed Requires improvement
    Safe: GoodWell-led: Requires improvement
  4. May 2019Requires improvementdown from Good
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement
  5. July 2016Goodup from Inadequate
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Requires improvement
  6. November 2015Inadequatedown from Requires improvement
    Safe: InadequateEffective: Requires improvementCaring: GoodResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Inadequate
  7. August 2015Requires improvement
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: Requires improvementCaring: GoodResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement
  8. February 2026

    Registered with the Care Quality Commission on 9 February 2026.

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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