Tamar (Manchester)
Home care agency in Manchester, Bury
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About
Tamar (Manchester) is a home care agency that provides care and support in people's own homes across Manchester. It has worked in the area for more than ten years and says it covers Prestwich, Trafford, Salford and the surrounding areas. Support includes help with daily routines, companionship and personal care. The agency's listed care focus is dementia, and the people it supports include older people, younger adults under 65, people with physical disabilities, mental health needs, sensory impairment and eating disorders.
The Care Quality Commission rated Tamar Requires Improvement overall in a report published in 2022. In its key-question grades, Caring and Responsive were rated Good, while Safe, Effective and Well-led were rated Requires Improvement.
What inspectors found
CQC: Requires improvementReport published 22 April 2022 · Last inspected 22 March 2022
Tamar Manchester is a domiciliary care agency in Radcliffe, Greater Manchester, supporting five people with personal care in their own homes at the time of inspection. Inspectors found staff to be kind and caring, with a stable team who know people well and go further when extra help is needed. The service was rated requires improvement, with concerns about medicines, recruitment, training and quality monitoring.
- Staff are described as kind and caring, and go beyond their usual role when people need further help.
- People's care plans show they were consulted and involved in planning their care.
- A stable team of staff knows people well, and there are enough staff to support current care packages.
- The registered manager has paused new care packages so that staff are not spread too thinly.
- Medicines are not managed or monitored well; records are incomplete, it is not always clear who gave medicines, and staff have not been trained in medicines administration.
- Recruitment checks are incomplete, including unexplained gaps in employment history and references not always being obtained, and some staff have not had role-relevant training, including safeguarding training.
- The provider's systems for monitoring quality and safety need significant improvement, as they did not identify and address the shortfalls found at inspection.
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 CourseSparse
- Public ParkAmple
- Tennis CourtAmple
- Bowling GreenPlentiful
- Playing FieldPlentiful
Local Amenities
- Pubs & BarsAmple
- Restaurants & CafesAdequate
- Retail ShoppingLimited
- SupermarketsPlentiful
- TakeawaysAmple
What home care costs
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Local health safety net
Tamar (Manchester) is backed by a local NHS health network. The nearest A&E is North Manchester General Hospital, 1.8 miles away. The local GP practice is ST GABRIEL'S MEDICAL CENTRE, 0.3 miles away, rated ‘Good’ by the CQC.
Nearest services from NHS ODS + postcodes.io + CQC, by straight-line distance.
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