A troubled care home has been taken off a council blacklist after impressing Government inspectors.
Merton Council stopped placing residents at Eltandia Hall in Norbury earlier this year after a series of complaints about the home.
But this week Terry Hutt, the council’s head of community care, said it had improved enough receive placements again.
They were stopped in March after complaints of bedsores on patients, inadequate wound care and problems delivering medication.
Eltandia Hall was then the subject of an unannounced visit by the Care Quality Commission on April 22, which gave the home an “adequate” rating.
Mr Hutt said evidence from this inspection, of “sustained improvement” at the 83-place home in Middle Way, convinced him to end the block on placements from Monday evening.
He said problems in the home’s respite, residential and nursing care centres had been due to leadership failures, and these issues were being addressed by its owner, Southern Cross Healthcare.
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