Earlfield Lodge

“Date of Assessment: 21 April to 8 May 2026. Earlfield Lodge is a residential home providing accommodation and personal care for older adults and people living with dementia. At our last assessment, we rated this service overall as requires improvement. At this assessment, we rated this service overall as good. The service can accommodate up to 35 adults. At the time of the assessment 15 people were living at the service. We carried out this assessment due to the previous rating and to follow up on our enforcement action. We assessed 33 quality statements in safe, effective, caring, responsive and well led. The provider was previously in breach of the legal regulations of person-centred care, safe care and treatment, premises and equipment, good governance and fit and proper persons employed. Improvements were found at this assessment and the provider was no longer in breach of these regulations. The provider had complied with the enforced conditions imposed at our last assessment. The provider had sent regular reports to the Care Quality Commission (CQC) which demonstrated improvements made at the service.”

“Improvements had been made at the service to make and embed changes. Staff were now recruited safely. Significant improvements had been made to the environment to ensure Earlfield Lodge was a pleasant place to live. This included internal refurbishments, a secure outdoor space, the smoking area being relocated and enclosing hot water pipes to mitigate risks. People’s care plans now contained person centred information. This included people’s life histories, preferences and wishes. This supported staff in knowing people well and what was important to them. The office had been relocated to the ground floor by the entrance to the service, which improved visibility of management and better oversight of the service.”