Bradford care home placed in special measures

A care home in Bradford has been placed in special measures after CQC inspectors found it was not “a safe, clean place” for residents to live.

Rose Cottage, which houses 14 residents, some with dementia, was rated as inadequate by the health watchdog.

The report said the home’s environment was “well below the standard” expected after the inspection found some bedrooms had “strong malodours”, and another room had a commode full of urine.

Inspectors also found that people’s wash bowls were being used to transport dirty laundry “which is totally unacceptable”, adding that infection outbreaks were not being “effectively prevented or managed” and soap dispensers in the bathroom, toilets and bedrooms were empty.

Inspectors also noted that residents were “being deprived of their privacy and dignity” due to issues with laundry services, including clothes going missing.

The report added that “There was no screening curtain in a room shared by two people which meant they had no privacy.”

The inspection in May was prompted in part following an incident in which a person using the service died and also to follow up on action the home provider was told to take at an inspection last year.

Sheila Grant, CQC deputy director of operations in the north, said “Rose Cottage is somewhere that people using this service call home and leaders weren’t ensuring it was a safe, clean place for them to live.”

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Posted by Karen Motley, Clinical Negligence Department, Chadwick Lawrence LLP (jacquelinevance@chadlaw.co.uk), medical negligence lawyers and clinical negligence solicitors in Huddersfield, Leeds, Wakefield and Halifax, West Yorkshire.

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