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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
James McNeill

Qualifications of staff at care home where patient lost 'significant amount of weight' questioned

Patients were put at risk at a care home that has been deemed inadequate and placed into special measures.

In a report the CQC said Appleby Court Care Home on Roughwood Drive, Kirkby was "unreliable and ineffective" and staff "failed to identify risk" to patient's health.

The CQC received reports in relation to people's safety and undertook a second inspection in September. The care home was initially inspected in January receiving a requires improvement rating and completed an action plan to show what they would do to "improve".

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