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Southfield Court Care Home

Off Southfield Road, Almondbury, Huddersfield, HD5 8RZ

Requires improvementpublished 17 May 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?
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

We have not explained this report yet

The CQC has not yet published an inspection report for Southfield Court Care Home. That is usual for a newly registered service.

The story over the years

Every inspection of Southfield Court Care Home

9 rated inspections over 7 years: the service has held its Requires improvement rating throughout.

  1. May 2023Requires improvementcurrent ratingdown from Good
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: Requires improvementCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Requires improvement
  2. October 2022Goodstayed Good
    Safe: GoodWell-led: Good
  3. July 2021Goodstayed Good
    Safe: GoodWell-led: Good
  4. March 2019Goodup from Requires improvement
    Safe: GoodEffective: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Good
  5. March 2018Requires improvementup from Inadequate
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Requires improvement
  6. February 2018Inadequatedown from Requires improvement
    Safe: InadequateEffective: Requires improvementCaring: GoodResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Inadequate
  7. March 2017Requires improvementup from Inadequate
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement
  8. June 2016Inadequatedown from Requires improvement
    Safe: InadequateEffective: Requires improvementCaring: GoodResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Inadequate
  9. November 2015Requires improvement
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: Requires improvementCaring: GoodResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement
  10. January 2024

    Registered with the Care Quality Commission on 29 January 2024.

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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