Ordeals of elderly not given bath or shower for 7 weeks

Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspectors said patients were still at "serious risk" after recommended measures to prevent injuries had not been properly implemented.

Two unannounced visits were made to the care home in February and inspectors witnessed one resident waiting more than 15 minutes to go to the toilet as there were not enough staff to help.

They also said bedrooms smelled strongly of urine, some people went significant periods without a bath or shower and in the main only received "bed baths".

As well as issues over safety and hygiene, the care home was criticised for the lack of activities available for residents. Most sat around all day watching TV with "nothing to do".

The report said: "This was the same as at the last inspection, yet despite this no effort had been made to ensure people's recreational and social interests are catered for."

Fester According to the report, which was published earlier this month, staff at the home were "polite and pleasant" but support was not always provided in a respectful or dignified way.

The home's fire risk assessment had also not been reviewed for eight years, despite the fact it should take place annually.

After a previous CQC inspection in July 2017, the home's nursing unit was closed and it now has only 25 patients, despite a capacity of 66.

In 2016, one man told how his 89-year-old mother's ulcer was left to fester for 15 months after care staff allegedly failed to treat it.

Jean Sass was later moved to a new care home but her son Paul said: "I feel really sorry for the residents who are in there. Some of them don't have anyone to protect them at all."

Arshad Chaudhry, the owner of Woolton Manor, yesterday said he had been a care provider for 25 years but was now "in a legal situation" with CQC and could not comment further.

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Shocking care home failings left some elderly residents without a bath or shower for seven weeks.

A recent report into Liverpool's Woolton Manor gave it an inadequate rating for the third time in a row.

Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspectors said patients were still at "serious risk" after recommended measures to prevent injuries had not been properly implemented.

Two unannounced visits were made to the care home in February and inspectors witnessed one resident waiting more than 15 minutes to go to the toilet as there were not enough staff to help.

They also said bedrooms smelled strongly of urine, some people went significant periods without a bath or shower and in the main only received "bed baths".

As well as issues over safety and hygiene, the care home was criticised for the lack of activities available for residents. Most sat around all day watching TV with "nothing to do".

The report said: "This was the same as at the last inspection, yet despite this no effort had been made to ensure people's recreational and social interests are catered for."

Fester According to the report, which was published earlier this month, staff at the home were "polite and pleasant" but support was not always provided in a respectful or dignified way.

The home's fire risk assessment had also not been reviewed for eight years, despite the fact it should take place annually.

After a previous CQC inspection in July 2017, the home's nursing unit was closed and it now has only 25 patients, despite a capacity of 66.

In 2016, one man told how his 89-year-old mother's ulcer was left to fester for 15 months after care staff allegedly failed to treat it.

Jean Sass was later moved to a new care home but her son Paul said: "I feel really sorry for the residents who are in there. Some of them don't have anyone to protect them at all."

Arshad Chaudhry, the owner of Woolton Manor, yesterday said he had been a care provider for 25 years but was now "in a legal situation" with CQC and could not comment further.