{"id":249393,"date":"2025-11-07T13:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T13:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/249393\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T13:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T13:50:07","slug":"care-home-in-walmer-shuttered-after-cqc-reports-strong-urine-smells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/249393\/","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":249394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-249393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}