Midshires Care Ltd
Helping Hands Wakefield
Home care agency in Wakefield
Operated by Midshires Care
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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
Helping Hands Wakefield is a home care agency operated by Midshires Care Ltd, based in Wakefield, West Yorkshire. It provides care and support in people's own homes, with a particular focus on dementia. The agency says it also supports people living with ongoing, progressive or end-of-life conditions, whether these arise from ageing, accident or injury. Care is arranged around each person's needs and daily life, so that they can keep living in the home and community they know.
The agency supports older people, younger adults under 65, people with dementia, people with physical disabilities, people with sensory impairments and people with learning disabilities. It is rated Good overall by the Care Quality Commission, with Good ratings across all five key questions: safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led. The report was published in 2021.
What inspectors found
CQC: GoodReport published 30 June 2021 · Last inspected 3 June 2021
Inspectors rated this first-time registered domiciliary care service in Wakefield, which supports older adults in their own homes, as good. People described staff as kind, caring and friendly, and said they were kept safe, involved in planning their care and happy with it. Medicines, infection control, staff training and supervision, and personalised care plans were all found to be in order, and the service sought feedback from people, relatives and staff.
- Staff were described as kind, caring and compassionate, and people and relatives were happy with the care given
- Medicines were well managed and infection control procedures were followed, including extra measures for COVID-19
- Care plans were personalised and gave staff enough detail about people's preferences and abilities
- Staff received appropriate training, support and supervision, and there were enough of them to meet people's needs
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
- AllotmentsPlentiful
- Play SpaceAmple
- Golf CourseAdequate
- Public ParkAmple
- Tennis CourtPlentiful
- Bowling GreenPlentiful
- Playing FieldAmple
Local Amenities
- Pubs & BarsPlentiful
- Restaurants & CafesPlentiful
- Retail ShoppingPlentiful
- SupermarketsPlentiful
- TakeawaysPlentiful
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Local health safety net
Helping Hands Wakefield is backed by a local NHS health network. The nearest A&E is Pinderfields Hospital, 0.8 miles away. The local GP practice is TRINITY MEDICAL CENTRE, 0.3 miles away.
Nearest services from NHS ODS + postcodes.io + CQC, by straight-line distance.
Part of Midshires Care
Helping Hands Wakefield is one of 150 services run by Midshires Care on AskBart. See how the group's services are rated and where it operates.
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