Care Home Fined £4000 by Care Quality Commission (CQC) for Operating Without Registered Manager

Friday, 28th April 2017

The Care Quality Comission (CQC) have issued a fine to Epsom Lodge Care Homes Ltd after inspectors discovered that a registered manager was not employed at the care home.

Debbie Ivanova, deputy chief inspector of adult social care for London and the South, said: “It is a provider’s legal duty to ensure that it has an appropriate registered manager in place for good reason.

Inspections by the CQC took place at Epsom Lodge Care Home in Surrey on 8 April 2016 and 19 September 2016 but, despite it being a legal obligation, inspectors discovered there was no registered manager at the care home from January 2016 until March 2017.

Epsom Lodge told the CQC that a manager had been employed since 1 February 2016 but the manager’s application to register had been rejected by the CQC because there were gaps in the information required.

The 4 April 2017 CQC report stated: ‘The manager that had been working at the service had not submitted an application to the CQC at the time of the inspection’. CQC followed their report up by issuing the fine which the care home provider agreed to pay.

For more information on this story visit: https://www.carehome.co.uk/news/article.cfm/id/1584020/Watchdog-fines-care-home-owner-4000-for-not-hiring-a-registered-manager Read the care home's latest CQC report here: http://www.cqc.org.uk/sites/default/files/new_reports/INS2-3230054850.pdf