Last updated: 9 February 2026
"A positive staff culture with a good mix of keen and experienced team members and enough skilled staff for care needs, but medicines safety failures and weak governance oversight were major issues."
Staff had not adhered to the provider's admission process regarding people's medicines and had not followed safe medicines practices, including correctly maintaining medicines records. This had resulted in one person not receiving their medicines as prescribed.
Staff were positive about the service, the provider and the registered manager and told us the staff culture at Chaxhill Hall had improved. A staff member said, "We have a good group of staff now, young ones who are keen to learn and experienced ones who are keen to teach."
Enough staff, with the right skills and experience, were deployed to deliver people's care, to support people with social activities and to ensure the home was kept clean.
Further improvement was needed to ensure governance systems were always effective in identifying shortfalls and addressing these. The day-to-day oversight of medicines management required improvement to ensure correct practice and process was followed.
Staff messed up giving medicines so one person missed their prescribed doses and no one spotted it at first.
Staff had not adhered to the provider's admission process regarding people's medicines and had not followed safe medicines practices... resulted in one person not receiving their medicines as prescribed.
Bosses have gaps in their checking systems like audits not fully followed up and poor day to day watch on medicine safety.
There was however, no process to check if actions completed... from previous audits, had been completed... day-to-day oversight of medicines management required improvement.
Staff numbers are just enough to cover care and cleaning but nothing special with no info on stable team or low agency use.
Enough staff, with the right skills and experience, were deployed to deliver people's care, to support people with social activities and to ensure the home was kept clean.
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Last inspected: December 2022
Management Quality
Well-led: Requires improvement
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