A care home has been listed as inadequate, despite being given seven months to improve its services, write Sam Chambers and Carly Cochrane.

York Court care home, in Battersea, received inadequate ratings from the Care Quality Commission after an unannounced inspection found that the service breached legal requirements in January.

A second inspection, published on August 5, found that despite the care home agreeing to follow a plan to improve its care of residents, not enough had been done to improve its rating.

The previous inspection had found that risk assessments for patients were not up to date and staff were not aware of people who had do not attempt resuscitation orders in place.

Challenging behavior from patients was also handled in a way that did not maintain their safety or protect their rights and there was a lack of significant, meaningful activities at the Battersea Park Road home.

Inspectors classed the service provided as inadequate in its safety, effectiveness, responsiveness and leadership.

Sally Warren, CQC’s deputy chief inspector for adult care, said: “For services found to be inadequate, we will consider taking further action in order to protect the health and wellbeing of local service users.”

A York Court statement said: “The wellbeing of people in the home is our first consideration and we are sorry that the care at York Court fell below the standards we expect to provide.

“We are implementing a comprehensive improvement plan and, following their most recent inspection in June, the inspectors reported that action had been taken that is improving the home’s safety, effectiveness and responsiveness.

“However, inspectors said that, although they have seen improvements, they require evidence of consistent good practice sustained over a longer period of time before they could improve the ratings. We have continued to make improvements.”