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Ashford House Care Home

34-36, Station Road, Rearsby, Leicester, LE7 4YY

Requires improvementpublished 24 January 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?
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

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The CQC published its most recent report on Ashford House Care Home on 24 January 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 Ashford House Care Home

7 rated inspections over 8 years: the service has slipped, from Good to Requires improvement.

  1. January 2023Requires improvementcurrent ratingup from Inadequate
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: Requires improvementCaring: Requires improvementResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement

    We are reading this report · the original is on cqc.org.uk

  2. August 2022Inadequatestayed Inadequate
    Safe: InadequateEffective: InadequateWell-led: Inadequate

    We are reading this report · the original is on cqc.org.uk

  3. November 2021Inadequatedown from Requires improvement
    Safe: InadequateEffective: Requires improvementWell-led: Inadequate

    Read this report on cqc.org.uk

  4. April 2021Requires improvementdown from Good
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: Requires improvementCaring: GoodResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement

    Read this report on cqc.org.uk

  5. October 2019Goodstayed Good
    Safe: GoodEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Good
  6. March 2017Goodstayed Good
    Safe: GoodEffective: Requires improvementCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Good
  7. June 2015Good
    Safe: GoodEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Good
  8. January 2020

    Registered with the Care Quality Commission on 1 January 2020.

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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