Goodrated 4 years ago
Rating from August 2022 (more than 2 years ago)
- Basingstoke, RG24 9DX
Apex Prime Care - Oldham
Apex Prime Care - Oldham is a home care service in Oldham, run by Apex Prime Care Ltd. CQC rated it Requires improvement overall in June 2023, a rating carried over from before the service’s current registration (last checked 6 June 2023). It is registered to support people living with dementia, older people, people with a sensory impairment and people with mental health needs.
- Home care
22b Salmon Fields, Royton, Oldham, OL2 6HT
What CQC says
Overall rating
Requires improvementrated 3 years ago (6 June 2023)
The service is not performing as well as it should.
This is an
CQC has carried this rating over from before the service’s current registration, for example when a new provider took it over. The service may not have been inspected under its current registration yet.
Last checked by CQC: 6 June 2023.
The five key questions
CQC rates each service on five questions. Each has its own rating.
Is it safe?
Requires improvementrated 3 years ago (6 June 2023)This is an .
Is it effective?
Goodrated 5 years ago (12 May 2021)This is an .
Is it caring?
Goodrated 5 years ago (12 May 2021)This is an .
Is it responsive to people’s needs?
Goodrated 5 years ago (12 May 2021)This is an .
Is it well-led?
Requires improvementrated 3 years ago (6 June 2023)This is an .
Not sure what the ratings mean? Read how CQC ratings work.
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 June 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.
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?
Well-led: Requires improvement
CQC checks how well the service is run. It looks at the managers and leaders, the culture, how the service checks and improves its own quality, and whether staff feel able to speak up.
Questions you could ask
- Who is the registered manager, and how can families contact them?
- How do you check the quality of care yourselves?
- How can staff raise worries, and how are they supported when they do?
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.
About this service
- Type of care
- Home care
- Who it supports
- Dementia, Older people, Sensory impairment, Mental health needs, Younger adults
- Registered since
- 19 September 2024
- Local council area
- Oldham
Who runs it
- Provider
- Apex Prime Care Ltd
- Brand
- BRAND Cera Care
- Kind of provider
- Company or organisation
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