Notrees
Hungerford, RG17
ResidentialDementia
Rated 7 years agocare home
CQC report explained · a nursing home, run by West Berkshire Council
Birchwood Care Home
1 Birchwood Road, Newbury, RG14 2PP
Requires improvementpublished 22 March 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?
- 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 Birchwood Care Home on 22 March 2023. We are still reading it. Check back soon, or read the report itself on cqc.org.uk.
Read the report on cqc.org.ukThe story over the years
Every inspection of Birchwood Care Home
7 rated inspections over 5 years: the service has improved, from Inadequate to Requires improvement.
- March 2023Requires improvementcurrent ratingstayed Requires improvementSafe: Requires improvementEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Requires improvement
- September 2022Requires improvementstayed Requires improvementSafe: Requires improvementEffective: Requires improvementCaring: Requires improvementResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement
- April 2022Requires improvementdown from GoodSafe: Requires improvementWell-led: Inadequate
- June 2021Goodup from Requires improvementSafe: GoodEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Requires improvement
- November 2019Requires improvementstayed Requires improvementSafe: Requires improvementEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement
- August 2018Requires improvementup from InadequateSafe: Requires improvementEffective: Requires improvementCaring: Requires improvementResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement
- November 2017InadequateSafe: InadequateEffective: Requires improvementCaring: Requires improvementResponsive: InadequateWell-led: Inadequate
- September 2017
Registered with the Care Quality Commission on 14 September 2017.
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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