LCS Portsmouth

Office 4, Halpern House, 1-2 Hampshire Terrace, Portsmouth, PO1 2QF

South East · Portsmouth · domiciliary

Requires improvement

Key question ratings

Safe
Requires improvement
Caring
Good
Well-led
Requires improvement
Effective
Requires improvement
Responsive
Requires improvement

Inspection history

PublishedOverallChangeTransitionAI summary
2022-10-28Requires improvementnewUnratedRequires improvementLCS Portsmouth received a 'Requires Improvement' rating because whilst staff were caring and people felt safe, the provider failed to implement effective quality assurance processes that would have identified significant safety and management failures. Critical gaps were found in risk assessments, recruitment procedures, medicines management, mental capacity safeguards, and care plan reviews, placing vulnerable people at risk of harm.