Afton Lodge Care Home
Afton Lodge Care Home is a care home in Liverpool, run by Mr Asif Iqbal Alvi & Muhammad Fayyaz Chauhdry. CQC rated it Good overall in December 2023 (last checked 13 December 2023). It has 27 beds. It is registered to support older people and people with a learning disability or autism.
- Care home without nursing
9-15 St Catherines Road, Bootle, Liverpool, Merseyside, L20 7AL
What CQC says
Overall rating
The service is performing well and meeting expectations.
The same as the rating before it (Good, 17 November 2017).
Read the CQC report (opens in a new tab)Last checked by CQC: 13 December 2023.
The five key questions
CQC rates each service on five questions. Each has its own rating.
Is it safe?
Requires improvementrated 2 years ago (13 December 2023)Is it effective?
Goodrated 8 years ago (17 November 2017)Is it caring?
Goodrated 8 years ago (17 November 2017)Is it responsive to people’s needs?
Goodrated 8 years ago (17 November 2017)Is it well-led?
Goodrated 2 years ago (13 December 2023)
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Understanding this rating
Plain facts about how CQC rates and inspects services, as CQC describes them. This is not advice and not a rating of ours.
This rating is from December 2023. That is more than 2 years ago. A service can change a lot in that time, for better or worse. CQC decides when to inspect again.
CQC rated it Good overall. It rated “Safe” as Requires improvement.
What CQC looks at
Safe: Requires improvement
CQC checks whether people are protected from abuse and avoidable harm. It looks at safeguarding, how risks are managed, staffing levels and training, medicines, and keeping the place clean to stop infections.
Questions you could ask
- How are medicines looked after and given on time?
- How do you decide how many staff are on duty, day and night?
- When something goes wrong, what do you do, and how do you tell families?
Questions you could ask
- What has changed since the last inspection?
How often CQC looks again
There is no fixed timetable. CQC decides when to look at a service again. It uses the information it holds about the service and how much risk it sees. It may look sooner if it hears of concerns.
Earlier ratings
Overall ratings this service had before, newest first. These are CQC’s own earlier ratings.
- Good17 November 2017Read the report (opens in a new tab)
- Good24 February 2017Read the report (opens in a new tab)
- Requires improvement1 October 2016Read the report (opens in a new tab)
About this service
- Type of care
- Care home without nursing
- Who it supports
- Older people, Learning disability or autism
- Number of beds
- 27
- Nursing care
- No, personal care only
- Registered since
- 25 January 2011
- Local council area
- Sefton
Who runs it
- Provider
- Mr Asif Iqbal Alvi & Muhammad Fayyaz Chauhdry
- Kind of provider
- Partnership