CQC report explained · a residential care home, run by Anchor
Buckingham Lodge
Culpepper Close, Aylesbury, HP19 9DU
Rated Requires improvement: inspectors found the service was not performing as well as it should and told it what to change.
- 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.
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The CQC published its most recent report on Buckingham Lodge on 25 May 2022. We are still reading it. Check back soon, or read the report itself on cqc.org.uk.
Read the report on cqc.org.ukEvery inspection of Buckingham Lodge
6 rated inspections over 6 years: the service has held its Requires improvement rating throughout.
- May 2022Requires improvementcurrent ratingup from InadequateSafe: Requires improvementEffective: Requires improvementCaring: Requires improvementResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement
- September 2021Inadequatedown from Requires improvementSafe: InadequateWell-led: Inadequate
- July 2019Requires improvementdown from GoodSafe: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement
- January 2018Goodup from Requires improvementSafe: GoodEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Good
- August 2017Requires improvementstayed Requires improvementSafe: Requires improvementEffective: Requires improvementCaring: Requires improvementResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement
- May 2016Requires improvementSafe: Requires improvementEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement
- April 2015
Registered with the Care Quality Commission on 5 April 2015.
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