An independent hospital has been banned from taking new patients and placed into special measures.
Care Quality Commission inspectors had to take urgent action after a "worrying" inspection found that practices at Ashwood Nursing Unit in Warrington "could place people at serious risk of harm". After visiting Ashwood Court - which provides support for people aged 18 to 65 - in May, the inspectors served two warning notices relating to concerns around the safe care and treatment of patients and a lack of good systems and processes being in place at the nursing unit.
The CQC's report states: "Opportunities to prevent or minimise harm were missed", before it adds that the "privacy and dignity of patients was not protected. For example, male patients could see into female patients’ bedrooms from the garden, reports CheshireLive.
