Layden Court Care Home

The following is CQC's published account of its assessment, published 31 January 2025. References to “we” mean CQC. It describes findings at that time.

Date of assessment from 26 September 2024. Layden Court Care Home provides nursing and personal care for up to 92 older people, including people living with dementia. At the time of the assessment site visit, 47 people were using the service. Layden Court was last rated Inadequate overall (published 2 March 2024). We undertook this assessment to follow up on the previous enforcement action we had taken against the service. At the last inspection we were concerned about people’s safety, relating to safeguarding and managing risks, medicines, staffing, and ineffective governance. During this assessment, we found improvements had been made, and the service was making good progress in rectifying the concerns found at our last inspection. At this assessment we have removed breaches of regulation in relation to, safeguarding and managing risks, medicines and staffing. However, the breach in relation to governance has remained. This service has been in Special Measures since 1 February 2024. The provider demonstrated improvements that have been made. The service is no longer rated as inadequate overall or in any of the key questions. Therefore, this service is no longer in Special Measures. There were no undue restrictions on people receiving visits and we saw people’s visitors coming and going throughout the day of our assessment visit. Processes were in place to assess people’s capacity to make decisions about their care, in line with The Mental Capacity Act 2005. People were supported to have maximum choice and control of their lives and staff supported them in the least restrictive way possible and in their best interests; the policies and systems in the service supported this practice.