{"id":811096,"date":"2026-10-23T04:48:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T04:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/811096\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T04:48:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T04:48:31","slug":"shepshed-care-home-ordered-to-make-improvements-by-inspectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/811096\/","title":{"rendered":"Shepshed care home ordered to make improvements by inspectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The CQC said arrangements for co-ordinating healthcare appointments were &#8220;not effective&#8221;, and several hospital follow-up appointments had been missed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some staff described &#8220;stress, a lack of direction, and gaps in supervision&#8221; but received positive feedback from residents&#8217; families, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/lnp\/ldrs\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS)<\/a> added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This placed people at risk of delays in receiving necessary assessment, treatment or ongoing monitoring,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The CQC said the home was &#8220;clean, calm and comfortable&#8221; and had &#8220;kind and compassionate&#8221; staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The registered manager was personable, knew people well and was observed engaging positively with people,&#8221; the report said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Staff appeared engaged with people and were seen sitting with them, talking and taking part in activities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prime Life said the outcome of the CQC inspection had &#8220;fallen below&#8221; the expectations it had of itself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;White Acres offers a valuable service to the people of Shepshed and the surrounding areas, and we will work closely alongside our local commissioners to ensure the service returns to its optimum level and the residents of the home continue to receive the best care and support possible,&#8221; a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Additional reporting by Dan Hunt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The CQC said arrangements for co-ordinating healthcare appointments were &#8220;not effective&#8221;, and several hospital follow-up appointments had been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":811097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-811096","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\/811096","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=811096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/811097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}