A care home has been ordered to make urgent improvements after an inspection raised “serious concerns”.
The Care Inspectorate has issued a formal improvement notice to Drumbrae Care Home in Edinburgh, calling for changes to be made by February 28 to avoid being struck from the register.
Among the five areas listed where urgent improvements are needed are having enough trained and competent staff working at all times and putting in place “safe and effective” arrangements for providing medication.
READ MORE: Health boards faced with 1,700 complaints over hospital discharges
The Edinburgh City Council-run home has also been ordered to record and follow all instructions given by external health care professionals.
Further improvements include ensuring the care of residents is planned and delivered with “compassion, dignity and respect” and making sure staff are appropriately trained, particularly in moving people and using equipment to do so.
A Care Inspectorate spokesman said: “The improvement notice we have issued clearly lays out the improvements we must see so that the care experienced by residents improves quickly.
“We will visit this care home again soon to check on progress and if we are not satisfied that the matters raised are being addressed urgently we will not hesitate to take further action.
“Everyone in Scotland has the right to safe, compassionate care which meets their needs and respects their rights.
“Anyone with a concern can contact our helpline on 0345 600 9527.”
A spokeswoman for the Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership (HPSC), which combines NHS Lothian’s community health services and Edinburgh City Council’s health and social care provision, said: “We take the care, safety and support of our care home residents very seriously.
READ MORE: Nurse driven to nervous breakdowns by tinnitus caused by 'too loud' Hogmanay DJ
“Work is ongoing with the Care Inspectorate to make sure Drumbrae Care Home is safe and comfortable and that we deliver the improvements required by the improvement notice.
“We took immediate action following feedback from our inspection in December, a highly experienced and long-standing care home manager from within the partnership has been put in place to oversee this work and monitor progress being made and they are being supported by the HSPC’s senior management to drive the improvement we need to see.”
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules here