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Southwoods Nursing Home

28 Thirsk Road, Northallerton, DL6 1PH

Requires improvementpublished 10 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?
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 story over the years

Every inspection of Southwoods Nursing Home

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

  1. August 2023Requires improvementcurrent ratingstayed Requires improvement
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Requires improvement

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  2. May 2022Requires improvement
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement

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  3. February 2021Inspected but not rated
    Safe: Inspected but not rated

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  4. August 2020Requires improvementstayed Requires improvement
    Safe: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement

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  5. January 2020Requires improvementstayed Requires improvement
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: Requires improvementCaring: GoodResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Inadequate

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  6. January 2019Requires improvementdown from Good
    Safe: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement

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  7. April 2017Goodup from Requires improvement
    Safe: GoodEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Good

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  8. December 2016Requires improvementstayed Requires improvement
    Safe: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement

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  9. February 2016Requires improvement
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Good

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  10. June 2014

    Report published without a new overall rating.

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  11. June 2013

    Report published without a new overall rating.

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  12. January 2013

    Report published without a new overall rating.

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  13. September 2012

    Report published without a new overall rating.

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  14. June 2012

    Report published without a new overall rating.

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  15. January 2012

    Report published without a new overall rating.

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  16. October 2011

    Report published without a new overall rating.

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  17. June 2011

    Report published without a new overall rating.

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  18. January 2011

    Registered with the Care Quality Commission on 26 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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