Scholars Mews Care Home

The following is CQC's published account of its assessment, published 4 September 2024. References to “we” mean CQC. It describes findings at that time.

Date of assessment: 1 July to 9 July 2024. Scholars Mews Care Home is a residential care home providing accommodation with personal care for up to 64 people. At the time of our assessment, 30 people lived at the home. This assessment was completed due to the significant concerns identified at the last inspection where the home was rated inadequate and placed into special measures. We assessed all 34 quality statements under all five key questions of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led. The home had made improvements and was no longer in breach of the regulations and is now rated good. People were now safeguarded from the risk of abuse and avoidable harm because safeguarding systems had improved. Staff understood their responsibility to keep people safe and reported concerns in a timely way. Where injuries occurred, these were now reported, recorded and investigated. Overall, risks to people's health and wellbeing were now identified, monitored and managed safely. Medicines were managed safely. There were now enough suitably skilled and competent staff who had received sufficient training. Infection prevention and control processes were managed well. Staff treated people with kindness and compassionate and encouraged people to do things meaningful to them. Staff promoted person centred care. Quality checks were now effective and identified areas for improvement. Although there continued to be no registered manager in post, the regional director has based at the home full time and had applied to become registered with us during our assessment until a permanent registered manager had been recruited. However, we also identified some areas where improvements were needed such as records related to consent, mental capacity assessments, records to support a safe transition between services, the monitoring of changes to people's health and involving people and their relatives in people's care.