Midshires Care Ltd
Helping Hands Watford
Home care agency in Watford, Hertfordshire
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About
Helping Hands Watford is a home care agency based in Watford, Hertfordshire. It is operated by Midshires Care Ltd and provides care and support in people's own homes, with dementia as its stated care focus. According to the agency, it offers personalised care shaped to each person's needs and lifestyle, including for people living with ongoing, progressive or terminal conditions arising from ageing, accident or injury. Its stated aim is to help people keep living well in the home and community they know.
The agency is registered to support older people, younger adults, people with dementia, people with physical disabilities, people with sensory impairments and people with learning disabilities. The Care Quality Commission rated Helping Hands Watford Good overall in a report published in 2019, with Good ratings for safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led.
What inspectors found
CQC: GoodReport published 1 January 2020 · Last inspected 16 December 2019
Inspectors found that people receiving personal care from this home-based agency, all of them older adults, felt secure with their carers. Staff were described as kind and caring, with people feeling listened to and able to build good relationships with them. The report says people's choices and privacy were respected, and that care was planned around assessed needs.
- Enough staff were in place to meet people's needs, and risks to people and their environment were managed safely.
- Staff understood safeguarding and felt able to raise concerns, and medicines were handled safely.
- Staff were supported through induction, shadowing of the management team, and ongoing support in their roles.
- Quality assurance systems identified where improvements were needed, and the registered manager was responsive during the inspection.
- Improvements to staff training were identified, and the report says plans to source further training were in place.
- Rostering of people's care calls was known to need improvement and was being reviewed.
- Training in end of life care was planned, in case people needed that support in future.
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 SpacePlentiful
- Golf CourseLimited
- Public ParkAmple
- Tennis CourtPlentiful
- Bowling GreenAdequate
- Playing FieldAmple
Local Amenities
- Pubs & BarsPlentiful
- Restaurants & CafesPlentiful
- Retail ShoppingAmple
- SupermarketsAmple
- TakeawaysPlentiful
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Local health safety net
Helping Hands Watford is backed by a local NHS health network. The nearest A&E is Watford General Hospital, 0.5 miles away. The local GP practice is WATFORD HEALTH CENTRE, 0.2 miles away.
Nearest services from NHS ODS + postcodes.io + CQC, by straight-line distance.
Part of Midshires Care
Helping Hands Watford 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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