{"id":771595,"date":"2026-09-15T16:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T16:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/771595\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T16:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T16:42:10","slug":"stoke-on-trent-nursing-home-placed-in-special-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/771595\/","title":{"rendered":"Stoke-on-Trent nursing home placed in special measures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A nursing home has been placed into special measures by the care watchdog over concerns about safety, treatment and governance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ash Hall Nursing Home in Werrington, Stoke-on-Trent, was judged to be inadequate following a Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection during July and August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was previously found to have been in breach of legal regulations relating to safe care, treatment and good governance, which had not been improved, the inspection report said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ash Hall Ltd, which runs the nursing home, said it was working with the CQC to address the issues but also raised concerns about &#8220;the accuracy of certain findings&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The report said the breach of legal regulations related to person-centred care, safe staffing and the need for consent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The provider could not demonstrate people consistently received safe care and treatment \u2013 risks to people&#8217;s health, safety and welfare were not always effectively assessed, monitored or managed,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Concerns identified at the previous inspection, including staffing, environmental safety and oversight of care, had not been fully addressed.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A nursing home has been placed into special measures by the care watchdog over concerns about safety, treatment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":771596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-771595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771595","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=771595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/771596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}