A CARE home branded “unsafe” and “inadequate” by health watchdogs has been told to make urgent improvements or face further enforcement action.

Inspectors from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) visited Glynn Court Residential Home and found it was failing to provide elderly residents with a safe and effective environment.

The 31-bed home in Fryern Road, Burgate, near Fordingbridge, could be fined or closed unless it makes satisfactory progress.

CQC inspectors visited Glynn Court in October last year to ensure it was complying with earlier enforcement action and concluded that the improvements made so far were inadequate.

Listing some of the inspectors’ key findings, a CQC report says: “The service was not safe.

“Systems for recording and administering medicines were not effective, which meant staff could not assure that people received the medicines safely. Records of how people’s wounds were monitored were inadequate. This meant staff could not ensure that wounds had been correctly investigated, treated and recorded.

“One large, unexplained bruise had not been investigated or reported to the local safeguarding authority.”

Other failings at the home meant there were not always enough staff to help pensioners eat their meals.

“Some people who ate in the lounge were left to eat by themselves when they could not do so,” says the report.

Describing the service as “not well led”, it adds: “The registered manager had consistently failed to meet the requirements of the Health and Social Care Act 2008. There were ongoing breaches of regulations which the manager had failed to identify.”

Adrian Hughes, the CQC’s deputy chief inspector of adult social care in the south, said people had a right to safe and compassionate care.

He added: “While we identified a number of examples of staff interacting well with the people living at the home and treating them with dignity and respect, we also identified a number of shortfalls.”

A Glynn Court spokesman refused to comment.