Forest Court Care Home

We assessed 2 Quality Statements in the Key Question of Safe. Staff were aware people who lived with dementia could not always recognise risks or understand the steps they needed to take to keep themselves safe. Staff used the relationships they had built up with people, as well as their knowledge of people’s needs and abilities, to support them to remain safe.

Staff had access to information and guidance which supported them to help keep people safe. Relevant risk assessment and associated care plans were completed and reviewed to ensure the actions adopted, to reduce and mitigate risks to people, remained appropriate, effective and the least restrictive option. When assessing risks and planning people’s care, staff worked closely with people’s relatives. This meant people’s relatives had opportunities to speak on behalf of their relative and contribute to the discussions and decisions made about how to keep their relative safe. The provider had recently made further adaptions to the environment to support people’s safety when they moved around the building independently.

There were processes in place to manage people’s medicines safely; to ensure people took their medicines as prescribed and to ensure the medicines prescribed remained effective.