COMMUNAL areas smelt strongly of stale urine at a Bradford care home, which has been branded inadequate by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

The Mount Nursing Home, Lister Lane, Undercliffe, received a surprise inspection from CQC officers on January 8 this year. Its previous inspection, on January 28 last year, found the regulations were being met at the time.

Inspectors found the 40-bed home owned by P&C Care Ltd, was providing inadequate care which was safe, effective, responsive or well-led.

It is registered to provide accommodation and personal care for older people, people living with dementia or mental health conditions. Nursing care is provided.

At the time of the latest CQC inspection, there were 32 people using the service and one person in hospital.

The inspection also found medicines were stored at excessive temperatures that might have reduced the efficiency of the medicines but were administered as prescribed.

Not all of the home's staff received all of the training they needed to care for people effectively.

Inspectors also found areas that were unsafe. These included a bedroom window being wedged open with a packet of incontinence pads.

Some radiators were found with no guards on them and were found them to be very hot to the touch.

A toilet cubicle in the ground floor bathroom did not have a door on it. A lock on one of the ground floor bathrooms was found to have a lock that did not work.

Two doors leading to a first floor bathroom did not have locks on them.

People's personal items including razors and used, dry flannels were left in several communal bathrooms.

The inspection also found there was no information in people's care files about their life histories or their personal preferences and interests.

Staff were also not receiving supervision or appraisals.

The CQC report, released on March 18, said: "We found people's safety was being compromised.

"Procedures to keep people safe were not being followed.

"The communal areas smelt strongly of stale urine and some areas of the home were not clean.

"We also found the home was not well maintained and identified areas that needed either repairs or replacements during our visit.

"There was very little on offer to keep people occupied or stimulated.

"For most of our visit people in the lounges were just sitting, sleeping or staring into space."

Despite the cleanliness of the home being questioned, the report said "care workers treated people kindly but found they did not always support people to be independent or to lead a dignified life".

nobody at P&C Care Ltd was available for comment.