Watchdog Puts Care Home Into Special Measures Following Safety Concerns

A care home in Stratford-upon-Avon, Scholars Mews, has been placed into special measures by the health watchdog due to ’very serious’ safeguarding concerns.
Watchdog Puts Care Home Into Special Measures Following Safety Concerns
Undated image of the hands of an elderly woman in Burrswood Care Home in Bury, Greater Manchester. Peter Byrne/PA Wire
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A care home has been placed into special measures by the health watchdog because of “very serious” safeguarding concerns, with instances of patients being left lying in urine-soaked sheets.

There were also claims that staff were told to be “firm” with incontinent patients and to show them their soiled clothing and hands if they had an accident.