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Beccles Care Home

St. Georges Road, Beccles, NR34 9YQ

Goodpublished 25 April 2023, 3 years ago

Rated Good: inspectors found the service performing well and meeting their expectations.

The five questions inspectors ask
Safe?
Good
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?
Good
Are people treated with kindness and dignity?
Responsive?
Good
Is care built around the person? Care plans, activities, complaints.
Well-led?
Good
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 Beccles Care Home on 25 April 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 Beccles Care Home

4 rated inspections over 2 years: the service has improved, from Requires improvement to Good.

  1. April 2023Goodcurrent ratingup from Inadequate
    Safe: GoodEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Good

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

  2. August 2022Inadequatestayed Inadequate
    Safe: InadequateEffective: InadequateCaring: InadequateResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Inadequate
  3. September 2021Inadequatedown from Requires improvement
    Safe: InadequateCaring: InadequateResponsive: InadequateWell-led: Inadequate
  4. November 2020Requires improvement
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: GoodCaring: Requires improvementResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement
  5. December 2022

    Registered with the Care Quality Commission on 7 December 2022.

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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