“HE was lying flat on his back in a urine soaked bed. I thought he was dying” – those are the words of a woman who claims her father was not cared for properly at a home where residents were said to be “at risk of harm”.

As reported in last week’s Gazette, the Care Quality Commission published a damning report on Beech Tree Care Home after inspectors found all areas to be “inadequate”.

Now, the daughter of a man who died there last year, has told The Gazette that she raised concerns about the home last year, before the death of her 91-year-old father who lived there for two years.

Diane Harris said reading the CQC report had “opened up old wounds” adding: “Everything in that report is exactly what I highlighted eight months before.”

The 57-year-old’s father Eric Fisher moved to the home, in Sprents Lane, Overton, from Preston Candover, but his health began declining at Easter last year.

Mrs Harris had not visited her father for a few weeks because she had a cold, and didn’t want him to catch it.

But she claims the home failed to inform her of Eric’s deterioration during this time, and when she went to visit him after Easter, she said she found him unkempt and covered in urine.

She said: “I thought he was dying and I screamed for someone to tell me what was going on and why no one had contacted me. They rushed around to change him but it went downhill from there.”

The mother-of-one claims her father was not being fed properly, with staff bringing him solid food when he was meant to be on a soft diet.

She added: “I was so desperate and could see he wasn’t being cared for. I called social services. He had lost so much weight.

“The room was filthy, there was mould growing round the armchair, there was old food behind the doors. It was just disgusting.”

Mrs Harris, who now lives in Bournemouth, reported the home to the CQC and social services, and said: “I’m angry because clearly eight months after my dad died nothing has changed.”

She added: “I felt hopeless. I just felt as if no one cared.”

Mrs Harris said her father did not want to die, and added: “Now I have got to live with the guilt that I let my dad down because I put him in there and he wasn’t cared for, certainly in those last few months.”

The CQC report published in March highlighted various failings at the home, managed by Leyton Healthcare, which runs 31 homes.

It said: “People were at risk of harm from infections caused by unclean surroundings.”

Inspectors also found residents were at risk of malnutrition because they “were not always supported to eat and drink enough.”

The CQC has taken enforcement action and asked the provider to make various improvements by March 31.

The Gazette has made various attempts to speak to David Mackins, the finance director at Leyton Healthcare Group, and the registered manager at Beech Tree, but neither has responded.

It is not clear who is now the registered manager of the home.

The CQC lists Nancy Nathalia Pinto Plumb as the manager on its website, but she contacted The Gazette to say she left the home in 2013.

When The Gazette asked the CQC why her name was listed on the website, it sent through a document stating that Nancy Thando Mupfururi was now the registered manager.

However, when The Gazette called the home we were told that the management had changed again, but the new manager was not willing to speak to The Gazette or give their name.

Both Hampshire County Council and the CQC failed to provide a comment.