Second Shropshire care home put in special measures

The Vicarage Nursing Home in Bayston Hill, near Shrewsbury was rated as "inadequate" after Care Quality Commission inspectors found a series of failings – including one resident being left without their medication for five days.

Another was fitted with a catheter which a doctor had told staff eight days previously could be removed. It took a further two days for this to happen. Medicines were not managed safely and, although the home offered specialist dementia care, staff were not clear on how they were to meet people's dementia care needs, according to the inspectors' report. There was also no registered manager in post.

Read the full CQC report on The Vicarage Nursing Home

CQC inspectors will make a further visit to the home in the future to ensure that safeguarding practices recommended in their report have been put in place. No-one at the care home was available to comment on the findings of the report, which was drawn up following an inspection in February. It comes after Doddington Lodge care home in Doddington, near Cleobury Mortimer, was placed in special measures after breaching legal requirements twice in six months.

In their report on Vicarage, inspectors said: "People's dignity was not always respected. On the first floor of the home we saw some people cared for in their bedrooms. One person was sat in their armchair and was naked from the waist down. On another occasion this person had been incontinent and was visibly wet. They were asking for help but staff were not around.

"People were living with dementia and some had difficulty in communicating and expressing themselves verbally. We saw situations were people tried to engage staff in conversation but this was ignored. Staff told us they were so busy they could only provide basic care for most of the time."