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Catherine House Care Home

Cork Street, Frome, BA11 1BL

Requires improvementpublished 3 August 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 Catherine House Care Home on 3 August 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 Catherine House Care Home

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

  1. August 2023Requires improvementcurrent ratingdown from Good
    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. October 2020Goodup from Requires improvement
    Safe: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Good
  3. December 2019Requires improvementdown from Good
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement
  4. March 2017Goodstayed Good
    Safe: GoodEffective: GoodCaring: Requires improvementResponsive: GoodWell-led: Good
  5. July 2015Goodup from Requires improvement
    Effective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Good
  6. March 2015Requires improvement
    Safe: GoodEffective: Requires improvementCaring: Requires improvementResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement
  7. November 2021

    Registered with the Care Quality Commission on 5 November 2021.

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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