The 'foul-smelling' care home where people went unwashed in dirty clothes

Residents at a foul-smelling care home were not properly washed and were treated in an 'undignified and degrading' manner, a scathing inspection report has found.

Parkhill Nursing Home in Stalybridge, Tameside, has been put in special measures by the Care Quality Commission (QCQ) watchdog and told to make urgent improvements having been rated 'inadequate'.

The facility, on Huddersfield Road in Millbrook, is run by Belmont Parkhill Limited and can support up to 38 people. In May last year it was told it required improvement by regulator the CQC.

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Inspectors re-visited the facility this July due to 'numerous concerns which had been raised about the service, including safeguarding concerns and concerns around staffing and management arrangements'.

The home has now been downgraded further after inspectors found residents were 'not receiving the care and support they needed'. Inspectors said 10 regulations were breached, with the home rated 'inadequate' in all areas.

'People were not always being supported safely', inspectors said. Th high use of agency staff meant there was 'no consistency of care', they added.

Staff, one person said, were 'not really interested' and 'just stand about'. Families raised concerns some areas of the home 'smelt very strongly unpleasant.

"During our site visit we observed people were not washed, their nails and hair were not always clean and clothes were often dirty," the report reads. "People were left in continence aids for long periods of time and personal care before meals times was not always promoted.

"During the assessment, the inspection team observed multiple occasions where people not treated