Health watchdog raises concerns over quality of care on Isle of Wight, while Hampshire is in bottom half of league table

TrustedCare issued a league table correlated from Care Quality Commission inspections which discovered that 21 per cent of 100 providers surveyed on the island require improvement.

Hampshire also comes in the bottom half of the league table with 12.3 per cent of 742 providers requiring improvement.

The news comes just days after CQC inspectors slammed Carewatch Hampshire South, which was found to require improvement in every area.

A Healthwatch Isle of Wight statement says: “Due to an increasing level of negative feedback around residential care and nursing homes received from the public since January this year, Healthwatch Isle of Wight has been raising serious concerns about the quality of care in a growing number of residential and nursing care homes on the island.

“The report recently published by TrustedCare, which indicates that the Isle of Wight is ranked the worst in the country for care quality, mirrors our reflection that many vulnerable people on the island are not receiving the care they need and deserve.

“We understand that care homes face enormous pressure with the reduction in funding available for adult social care, difficulties in recruiting staff, and increasing complexity of needs of the people they care for.

“However as detailed in the report, the Isle of Wight has significantly poorer CQC inspection results than anywhere else in the country. Our care sector has reached a crossroads and cannot be allowed to continue with business as usual.”

Both Hampshire and the Isle of Wight compare badly to table-topping Herefordshire, where only 2.9 per cent of 105 services inspected require improvement.