St Martin's Centre
Stroud, GL5 · 0.7 km
Nursing
Rated 7 years agocare home
CQC report explained · a residential care home, run by Northfield Care
Northfield House
Folly Lane, Uplands, Stroud, GL5 1SP
Requires improvementpublished 24 January 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?
- 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 Northfield House on 24 January 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 Northfield House
9 rated inspections over 7 years: the service has slipped, from Good to Requires improvement.
- January 2023Requires improvementcurrent ratingstayed Requires improvementSafe: GoodEffective: Requires improvementCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Requires improvement
- October 2022Requires improvementdown from GoodSafe: Requires improvementEffective: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement
- July 2021Goodup from Requires improvementSafe: GoodWell-led: Good
- November 2020Requires improvementstayed Requires improvementSafe: Inspected but not rated
- October 2020Requires improvementstayed Requires improvementSafe: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement
- November 2019Requires improvementstayed Requires improvementSafe: Requires improvementEffective: GoodWell-led: Requires improvement
- November 2018Requires improvementdown from GoodSafe: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement
- July 2017Goodstayed GoodSafe: GoodEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Good
- May 2016GoodSafe: Requires improvementEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Good
- October 2014
Report published without a new overall rating.
- October 2013
Report published without a new overall rating.
- April 2013
Report published without a new overall rating.
- January 2012
Report published without a new overall rating.
- January 2011
Registered with the Care Quality Commission on 11 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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