CONCERNS about record keeping at a north Oxfordshire hospice have been addressed, the official health and social care regulator has said.

The Care Quality Commission said Adderbury’s Katharine House Hospice met standards around records.

It demanded action after an unannounced June inspection found some peoples’ care records, risk assessments and care plans were incomplete.

It said: “This meant that people were not always protected against the risks of unsafe or inappropriate care and treatment arising from a lack of proper information about them.”

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It said the charity sent the CQC an action plan and an unannounced September inspection found improvements.

A report by the CQC said: “We found that following our last inspection all clinical staff had attended record keeping training.

“Members of the multi-professional team had worked together to review the format of care plans and risk assessments.”

It studied records of five of the eight people at the hospice and found “accurate and appropriate records about them were maintained”.

The CQC said: “People were now protected from the risks of unsafe or inappropriate care and treatment.”

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