{"id":122988,"date":"2025-11-07T14:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T14:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/122988\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T14:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T14:00:07","slug":"care-home-in-walmer-shuttered-after-cqc-reports-strong-urine-smells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/122988\/","title":{"rendered":"Care home in Walmer shuttered after CQC reports strong urine smells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to the CQC&#8217;s report, which detailed eight regulation breaches, inspectors were &#8220;not assured that the provider had identified and recorded all of the incidents or allegations of abuse&#8221; at the home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A resident&#8217;s relative told inspectors about a recent safeguarding incident that the CQC and local authority were not informed about, according to the regulator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Inspectors said a relative told them they &#8220;felt their loved one was neglected at the home&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Many staff members were recently recruited because the provider &#8220;no longer had a licence to sponsor staff from other countries&#8221;, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The service was &#8220;managed day to day by inexperienced staff whilst the manager was away,&#8221; inspectors said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The CQC also found medicine was not safely managed and Sonia Lodge residents were &#8220;not always referred to other health care professionals when they should have been&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Inspectors reported a relative told them their loved one &#8220;was sent alone&#8221; to hospital and found &#8220;wandering about the hospital confused&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the CQC&#8217;s report, which detailed eight regulation breaches, inspectors were &#8220;not assured that the provider had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[134,527,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-122988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}