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Highfield Care Centre

Allerton Bywater, Castleford, WF10 2DY

Requires improvementpublished 6 August 2022, 4 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 Highfield Care Centre on 6 August 2022. 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 Highfield Care Centre

4 rated inspections over 3 years: the service has slipped, from Good to Requires improvement.

  1. August 2022Requires improvementcurrent ratingup from Inadequate
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Requires improvement

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

  2. December 2021Inadequatedown from Requires improvement
    Safe: InadequateWell-led: Inadequate

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

  3. August 2020Requires improvementdown from Good
    Safe: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement

    Read this report on cqc.org.uk

  4. February 2019Good
    Safe: GoodWell-led: Good

    Read this report on cqc.org.uk

  5. February 2018

    Registered with the Care Quality Commission on 12 February 2018.

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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