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Lavender Fields - Care Home with Nursing

No 1 Lavender Fields, Lucas Lane, Hitchin, SG5 2JB

Requires improvementpublished 26 March 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?
Good
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?
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 Lavender Fields - Care Home with Nursing on 26 March 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 Lavender Fields - Care Home with Nursing

3 rated inspections over 6 years: the service has slipped, from Good to Requires improvement.

  1. March 2022Requires improvementcurrent ratingdown from Good
    Safe: GoodEffective: Requires improvementCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Requires improvement

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  2. November 2018Goodstayed Good
    Safe: GoodEffective: GoodWell-led: Good

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  3. December 2015Good
    Safe: GoodEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Good

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  4. September 2013

    Report published without a new overall rating.

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  5. May 2013

    Report published without a new overall rating.

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  6. January 2011

    Registered with the Care Quality Commission on 12 January 2011.

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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