CQC fines Hull care home £1,875 for failure to comply with regulations
29 Apr 2014 12:51 PM
CQC fines Hull care home £1,875 for
failure to comply with regulations
A
care home which failed to notify the Care Quality Commission in line with
national requirements has been issued with fines totalling
£1,875.
CQC
has issued two fixed penalty notices – one to the provider, Donnelly Care
Homes Limited, and one to the manager of Eastrise Residential Home following
their failure to notify the commission within the required timescales about
incidents affecting residents at the home.
CQC
carried out an unannounced inspection at Eastrise Residential Home on the 20
and 21November 2013.
Following a review of records, inspectors identified
that there had been a failure to inform CQC on two separate occasions when a
resident had sustained an injury requiring hospital treatment.
In
the light of the failure to meet legally required national standards, CQC has
issued fixed penalty notices totalling £1,875.
Debbie Westhead, CQC’s Deputy Chief Inspector of
Adult Social Care in the North said:
“Every registered provider and manager has a legal
duty to ensure that they meet national care standards and to advise CQC of
serious incidents and events to enable us to discharge our regulatory
responsibilities on behalf of the people who use the service.
“The failures on this occasion to inform CQC of
two serious incidents relating to the provision of care, is unacceptable.
“Donnelly Care Homes Limited has now paid the fines in full and we will
continue to monitor the home closely as part of our regulatory
responsibilities.”
For further information please contact CQC
Regional Communications Officer Kirstin Hannaford on 0191 233
3629.
The CQC press office can be contacted on 0207
448 9401 or out of hours on 07917 232 143
NOTES TO EDITORS
You
can find reports on this provider at on the CQC website here.
CQC
has issued a fixed penalty notice to Donnelly Care Homes Limited, for its
failure to meet:
- Regulation 18 Health and Social Care Act (Regulated
Activities) Regulations 2010, Notification of other incidents
CQC
has issued a fixed penalty notice to the manager of Eastrise Residential care
Home, for her failure to meet:
- Regulation 18 Health and Social Care Act (Regulated
Activities) Regulations 2010, Notification of other incidents
Under the Health and Social Care Act 2008, CQC can serve
a penalty notice when a registered person has failed to comply with the Act,
and we consider that swiftly achieving compliance without beginning proceedings
is a realistic alternative to prosecution.
Any
fixed penalty paid to CQC must be repaid by CQC to the Secretary of State. The
legal requirements and associated fines are set out in:
www.cqc.org.uk/sites/default/files/media/documents/20120321_final_enforc
ement_policy_for_publication.pdf
CQC
has a range of enforcement powers which include restricting the services that a
provider can offer, or, in the most serious cases, suspending or cancelling a
service. CQC can also issue financial penalty notices and cautions or prosecute
the provider for failing to meet essential standards. Any regulatory decision
that CQC takes is open to challenge by a registered person through a variety of
internal and external appeal processes.
About the Care Quality
Commission
The
Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of health and social
care in England.
We make sure health and social care services
provide people with safe, effective, compassionate, high-quality care and we
encourage care services to improve.
We monitor, inspect and regulate services to
make sure they meet fundamental standards of quality and safety and we publish
what we find to help people choose care.