Bosses of a care home which had a damning inspection report and a break out of E coli say they’re confident a new action plan will deliver improvements.

Manor Care Home failed four out of five standards in an inspection report and some people living there had been infected by E. coli following an investigation last October.

Cheshire & Merseyside Health Protection Team, Public Health England identified the substance caused by a bacteria which resulted in visits made to the home by specialist staff in infection control.

Dr. Anjila Shah from the Public Health England Cheshire & Merseyside Centre said: “All staff, patients and visiting GPs to the care home were informed about the situation at the time.

“A detailed action plan outlining Infection control measures that were needed to be put in place was drawn up.

‘There were no deaths due to the infection”