Brockington House Care Community
Brockington House Care Community is a care home with nursing in Hereford, run by Dormy Care Communities (Hereford) Limited. CQC rated it Requires improvement overall in August 2022 (last checked 25 August 2022). It has 70 beds. It is registered to support people living with dementia, older people, people with a physical disability and younger adults.
- Care home with nursing
Hafod Road, Hereford, HR1 1SQ
What CQC says
Overall rating
The service is not performing as well as it should.
Last checked by CQC: 25 August 2022.
The five key questions
CQC rates each service on five questions. Each has its own rating.
Is it safe?
Requires improvementrated 4 years ago (25 August 2022)Is it effective?
Goodrated 4 years ago (25 August 2022)Is it caring?
Goodrated 4 years ago (25 August 2022)Is it responsive to people’s needs?
Goodrated 4 years ago (25 August 2022)Is it well-led?
Requires improvementrated 4 years ago (25 August 2022)
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 August 2022. 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
- Care home with nursing
- Who it supports
- Dementia, Older people, Physical disability, Younger adults
- Number of beds
- 70
- Nursing care
- Yes, nurses are on hand
- Registered since
- 25 July 2019
- Local council area
- Herefordshire
Who runs it
- Provider
- Dormy Care Communities (Hereford) Limited
- Kind of provider
- Company or organisation