Larchmere House Nursing Home

Larchmere House Nursing Home provides nursing and personal care for up to 33 people, including older people and those living with dementia, with 28 people living there at the time of assessment. The CQC found that while staff were kind, attentive and knew people well, the home requires improvement overall, with breaches relating to medicines management, risk management and staff training and oversight, including insufficient monitoring of constipation risks.

Inspectors found a warm, homely atmosphere, with people well engaged in activities and relatives feeling involved and well informed. Recruitment was safe and the environment clean and personalised, but management systems needed strengthening to ensure risks were consistently identified and addressed.