Aquarius Residential Care Home
8 Watson Avenue, Chatham, ME5 9SH
South East · Medway · residential
Requires improvement
Key question ratings
- Safe
- Requires improvement
- Caring
- Good
- Well-led
- Good
- Effective
- Requires improvement
- Responsive
- Good
Inspection history
| Published | Overall | Change | Transition | AI summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-01-04 | Requires improvement | new | Unrated→Requires improvement | Aquarius Residential Care Home received an overall rating of 'Requires Improvement' because staff had not received adequate training for people's specific health conditions (dementia, epilepsy, catheter care) and long-serving staff had not received formal supervision since July 2015, breaching Regulation 18. Additionally, there were concerns about medicine record-keeping for topical creams, unsafe storage of prescribed thickener, and delayed action on excessive water temperatures, though the home demonstrated good caring practices and effective leadership. |
| 2016-04-26 | Unrated | Unrated→Unrated | — | |
| 2014-12-06 | Unrated | Unrated→Unrated | — | |
| 2014-09-05 | Unrated | Unrated→Unrated | — | |
| 2013-07-17 | Unrated | Unrated→Unrated | — | |
| 2013-06-04 | Unrated | Unrated→Unrated | — | |
| 2012-09-12 | Unrated | Unrated→Unrated | — | |
| 2011-08-31 | Unrated | Unrated→Unrated | — | |
| 2011-03-30 | Unrated | Unrated→Unrated | — |