Home care agency
Be Helpful
Home care agency in Congleton, Cheshire East
Be Helpful
Home care agency in Congleton, Cheshire East
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- Green Surroundings — Excellent access to parks, playing fields and other green space nearby (OpenStreetMap).
- Well Served — Excellent everyday amenities nearby — shops, supermarkets, pharmacies, banks, post offices, cafés and places to eat (OpenStreetMap).
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About
Be Helpful is a home care agency based in Congleton, Cheshire East, delivering care and support in people's own homes. The agency supports older people, younger adults and those with dementia or physical disabilities. It is rated Requires Improvement by the Care Quality Commission, with the most recent inspection report published in 2021. The agency was found to be Good in Effective, Caring and Responsive care, but Requires Improvement in Safe and Well-led practice.
What inspectors found
CQC: Requires improvementReport published 12 November 2021 · Last inspected 15 October 2021
Inspectors found that this domiciliary care service, which provides personal care to people in their own homes, received strong praise from people about the standard of care. Staff were described as well trained and familiar to the people they support, and an electronic call monitoring system helped visits take place when people needed them. The overall rating was requires improvement, with inspectors raising concerns about risk assessment, staff testing and medicines management that the provider has begun to address.
- People told inspectors they felt safe, and all those who spoke with inspectors were complimentary about their care.
- Staff were well trained and knew the people they supported well, which gave people consistent care.
- Visit scheduling through an electronic monitoring system helped ensure people received care when they needed it and reduced missed visits.
- Management were described as open, approachable and responsive, and health and social care professionals spoke highly of the collaborative, person-centred care provided.
- Risks to people and staff, including those linked to COVID-19, were not always assessed and recorded.
- Staff were not always tested for COVID-19 in line with government guidance.
- Medicines records and governance arrangements did not always ensure medicines were managed safely, and the provider's quality checks did not identify these gaps.
Written by AI from the report text and checked against it. Not an official CQC statement. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Read the full report on CQC.
Care provided
Specialist care
What's nearby
Straight-line distances.
What’s in the area
Outdoor Spaces
- AllotmentsAmple
- Play SpaceAmple
- Golf CourseAdequate
- Public ParkAdequate
- Tennis CourtAmple
- Bowling GreenAmple
- Playing FieldAdequate
Local Amenities
- Pubs & BarsPlentiful
- Restaurants & CafesAmple
- Retail ShoppingAdequate
- SupermarketsAmple
- TakeawaysAmple
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Local health safety net
Be Helpful is backed by a local NHS health network. The nearest A&E is Macclesfield District General Hospital, 7.3 miles away. The local GP practice is LAWTON HOUSE SURGERY, 0.1 miles away.
Nearest services from NHS ODS + postcodes.io + CQC, by straight-line distance.
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