Working at Afton Lodge Care Home

Medication safety is not reliable because one record was altered making it confusing and there was no guidance for as needed medicines.

One person's medication administration record had been altered by staff which made the record initially confusing to follow and difficult to establish if the person had received their medicines as prescribed. Guidance was not in place for all prescribed medicines administered on an 'as required' basis.

Only basic activities like bingo, crafts and chair exercises run by care staff with no dedicated coordinator.

Per 2017 comprehensive inspection: programme of activities which staff coordinated themselves. During our inspection, people were engaged in chair exercises... I do jigsaws... play bingo... sometimes I do crafts.

Care staff have to pick up cleaning duties at weekends with no dedicated cleaners then.

The service did not employ dedicated domestic staff throughout the weekend which meant thorough cleaning was only completed during the week... the impact when care staff picked up additional duties such as cleaning.