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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Lisa Rand

Resident 'left in bed for hours' at 'inadequate' Formby care home

Residents were left in bed for hours due to a lack of staff at a Formby care home rated ‘inadequate’ at its first inspection.

Freshfields care home on College Road in Formby, which cares for people with physical disabilities, and is operated by Valorum Care Ltd was inspected in November by care watchdog CQC.

It was the first inspection of the home under the current provider and one which found a number of issues with the way the home was run. This included the “unsafe management of medicine which put people “at risk of avoidable harm” at the home.

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