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The Lindens Care Home

Stoke House, Stoke Road, Stoke Hammond, MK17 9BN

Requires improvementpublished 14 December 2022, 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

We have not explained this report yet

The CQC published its most recent report on The Lindens Care Home on 14 December 2022. We are still reading it. Check back soon, or read the report itself on cqc.org.uk.

Read the report on cqc.org.uk
The story over the years

Every inspection of The Lindens Care Home

4 rated inspections over 7 years: the service has slipped, from Good to Requires improvement.

  1. December 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. April 2022Inadequatedown from Good
    Safe: InadequateWell-led: Inadequate

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

  3. March 2019Goodstayed Good
    Safe: GoodWell-led: Requires improvement

    Read this report on cqc.org.uk

  4. February 2016Good
    Safe: GoodEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Good

    Read this report on cqc.org.uk

  5. August 2014

    Registered with the Care Quality Commission on 14 August 2014.

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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