Service improvements

Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council

Showing service improvements between 1 April 2024 and 31 March 2025

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When we find fault, we can recommend improvements to systems and processes where they haven’t worked properly, so that others do not suffer from these same problems in future. Common examples are policy changes; procedural reviews; and staff training. Service improvements from decisions are published for 5 years and those from reports are published for 10 years.

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  • Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council (24 011 622)

    Category: Adult care services Date: 11-Feb-2025

    Summary

    Mr X complained about the Council’s delay in assessing Mr Y’s adult social care needs and a delay in arranging funding after Mr Y’s capital fell below the limit. This caused an injustice to Mr X who was put to avoidable time and trouble pursuing the Council and avoidable stress as the care home was pursuing him for outstanding costs in a period the Council should have been assisting financially. We asked the Council to remedy the injustice and it agreed to apologise, make a payment to Mr X, and by sharing the learning with relevant staff.

    Service improvements

    The Council will share the learning from this complaint with relevant staff, including how to decide the date funding for adult social care should start and the importance of resolving challenges to its decisions without delay.

  • Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council (24 002 863)

    Category: Adult care services Date: 28-Mar-2025

    Summary

    Miss B complains about the care provided to her grandmother at a care home. She says there was poor hygiene, there were inaccurate records, her grandmother’s nutritional needs were not met and the Home did not fully respond to her complaint. We have found that there was poor record keeping in certain areas, there was an incident of poor hygiene in the room and the Home did not address all the complaints. The Council has agreed to apologise, pay a small financial remedy and carry out a service improvement.

    Service improvements

    Ask the Home to remind staff of the importance of good record keeping.

  • Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council (24 001 193)

    Category: Adult care services Date: 20-Feb-2025

    Summary

    Mrs X complained about the care provided to her late husband, Mr Y, at the Council commissioned care home. There was fault in the care home’s failure to ensure Mr Y’s medication was reviewed when he struggled with swallowing. It has already apologised for the uncertainty this caused. It also failed to ensure it kept all Mr Y’s records. The Council has agreed to ensure the care home has taken action to prevent a recurrence of these faults. There was no fault in the way the Council identified the placement or charged Mr Y for his care.

    Service improvements

    Averill House Care Home, a Council commissioned care home, could not provide copies of the records of when professionals visited the care home. The Council has agreed to satisfy itself the Care Provider has adequate systems in place to ensure it maintains individual’s case records appropriately.The Council commissioned Care home, Averill House Care Home, failed to seek support early enough when a resident struggled with swallowing. The Council has agreed to provide the Ombudsman with evidence of the lessons learned exercise carried out by the Care Home team regarding the importance of reviewing medicines when a person is experiencing a decline in physical health.

  • Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council (23 019 851)

    Category: Adult care services Date: 02-Dec-2024

    Summary

    Ms X complains the Council failed to support her properly after she asked for help in December 2023, and was only just setting up her direct payments when she contacted us in March 2024. The Council took far too long to set up Ms X’s direct payments. It needs to apologise and pay financial redress. It also needs to improve its working practices.

    Service improvements

    The Council has agreed to identify the action it is going to take to ensure urgent cases are treated as urgent throughout the process, and not just at the start.

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