A Sefton care home littered with “piles of rubbish” has been told to improve by a care watchdog.
Problems with the state of Woolston Mead care home in Waterloo, and how medication is being handed out created an “increased risk that people could be harmed” according to a Care Quality Commission report published last week. Following an unannounced inspection in July, inspectors found the home which overlooks Crosby coastal park along Beach Lawn was “poorly presented” with rubbish and equipment strewn outside.
Inside, several storage rooms were also found to be “cluttered” with old paperwork and equipment. Inspectors said problems were identified with how medicine was handed out. This included medicine doses and times not being properly recorded and a failure of quality systems to identify issues which needed addressing.
