Field House Care Home. Spinners Green, Rochdale Enter and View Report - June 2025
The Enter and View team undertook observations around the home and:
- Spoke with 11 residents and 6 family members visiting relatives.
- Observed areas of the home and garden.
- Spoke with the manager and the Activities Co-ordinator, and informally with several staff including the chef, as the team looked round the home.
Positive highlights of the visit
✓ Staff were friendly and accommodating. They were open, honest and transparent to us as Enter and View Reps.
✓ Décor in dining room and lounge was fresh, neutral, clean, light and homely. ✓ Fieldhouse was clean and had a neutral smell.
✓ Staff had a natural rapport with residents demonstrating compassion and encouragement.
✓ The Kitchen staff were knowledgeable, and food provided was cooked fresh on the premises offering good choice and nutritional value.
✓ Hydration Station available at all times and staff observed checking residents had taken fluids throughout the visit.
✓ Manager’s honesty was appreciated and insightful.
Recommendations
The Enter and View visit identified the following areas for improvement and therefore recommend:
1. Review the signing in book, or system, to ensure it is more clearly accessible for visitors
2. Activities Board: To review the board to provide a daily display of the planned activities using words, pictures and images for ease of understanding. If a weekly or monthly overview is needed, to display this separately.
3. To add a fixed display board to large wall in dining room to display residents work without damaging paintwork.
4. Ensure staff and visitors are using a designated smoking area and suitable ashtrays/bin provided, away from the lounge area.
5. Movable lip on ramp leading out to garden to be coloured/painted to ensure not a trip hazard when not laid flat/flush.
6. To ensure no items are stored/left in front of fire exits. Staff are reminded of fire precautions policies and procedures and a new location is sought for the essential equipment.
7. Consideration being given to offering a more dementia friendly décor and using more consistent colours to differentiate between rooms (e.g. bathrooms and toilets) when planning the redecoration programme for the home.
8. To enhance garden area where possible.
9. To remind staff to regularly check, all keys are not left in door locks.
10. To ensure all wall-mounted Defib images state clearly where Defib is located.
11. To incorporate more “dementia friendly” activities and signs within the home.