Riverside View
Recorded Key Question grade range: 3–4 — Adequate View on Care Inspectorate
Key Question scores
Requirements & recommendations
1. By 17 September 2025, the provider must ensure that service users are safe from harm by administering medication safely and effectively. To do this, the provider must, at a minimum: a) ensure that people receive their time critical medications, at the prescribed time b) ensure that medication administration records are completed accurately. This is to comply with Regulation 4(1)(a) (Welfare of users) of The Social Care and Social Work Improvement Scotland (Requirements for Care Services) Regulations 2011 (SSI 2011/210). This is to ensure that care and support is consistent with the Health and Social Care Standards (HSCS) which state that: 'My care and support meets my needs and is right for me.' (HSCS 1.19)
1. In order to promote activity and independence for people living in the service, the provider should have appropriate signage around the home. The use of the King's Fund Environmental Assessment Tool and involving people/their representative in designing the environment is recommended to help ensure that best practice and people's needs and wishes are taken into account. This is to ensure that care and support is consistent with the Health and Social Care Standards which state that: 'I can independently access the parts of the premises I use, and the environment has been designed to promote this.' (HSCS 5.11)