Nursing home ‘must improve’, inspectors say

A CARE home in East Renfrewshire has been ordered to make urgent changes after a watchdog found serious issues.

Greenlaw Grove Care Home in Newton Mearns has been served with a formal improvement notice following a Care Inspectorate review at the premises.

It lists six areas needing urgent improvement, including the way medicine is kept and administered, staff numbers, training and registration, hygiene maintenance, health and wellbeing of residents as well as care plans.

Management have been told they must show “members of staff are appropriately deployed as necessary to meet the health, welfare and safety needs of service users at all times”.

The watchdog also ordered them to demonstrate the workforce has received training in areas including manual handling, infection control, stress and distress and adult support as well as protection.

A spokesman for the Care Inspectorate said: “The improvement notice we have issued clearly lays out the improvements we need to see so that the care provided to residents improves quickly.

“We will visit this care home again soon to check on progress and if we are not satisfied that the matters raised are being addressed urgently, we will not hesitate to take further action.

“Everyone in Scotland has the right to safe, compassionate care which meets their needs and respects their rights.”

A spokesman for Greenlaw Grove Care Home said: “We are working closely with the Care Inspectorate and have already made very significant progress.”