Oakdene Care Home

People told us they felt safe at the service. The registered manager and their deputy worked with the provider to ensure all safeguarding concerns were dealt with appropriately. There were processes in place to enable learning from events.

The environmental and personal risks to people's safety were well managed. Assessments of people's needs had been undertaken using nationally recognised assessment tools, and measures to reduce risks had been put in place using these risk assessments.

People were supported by adequate numbers of staff who had been recruited safely and received appropriate training for their roles

People received their medicines safely, and there were good quality monitoring systems in place to manage medicines and to highlight and reduce possible errors.

The service was clean and there were good infection prevention and control processes in place to reduce the risk of infections to people.

People's nutritional needs were well managed. People enjoyed the food served to them. They were given choice and supported with their meals by a staff group who showed good knowledge of their nutritional needs.

Peoples' health needs were well managed and there were good working relationships with external health professionals to provide good outcomes for people.

The environment people lived in was well maintained and the provider had an ongoing improvement and refurbishment plan in place.

People were supported by a staff group who treated them with respect and maintained their dignity. They were supported to maintain relationships with their families and there was a clear activities program in

place to reduce people's feelings of boredom or isolation.

The service had systems in place to manage complaints and concerns from people or their relatives and people told us they felt listened to.

People were supported to have maximum choice and control of their lives and staff supported them in the least restrictive way possible and in their best interests; the policies and systems in the service supported this practice.