In the past week the Care Quality Commission has published a further 64 reports on the quality of care provided by adult social care services across the South of England.
Following recent inspections, 27 of these care homes and agencies supporting people in their own homes have been rated as Good, 28 have been rated Requires Improvement and 9 have been rated Inadequate.
Under CQC’s programme of inspections, all of England’s adult social care services regulated by CQC, are being given a rating according to whether they are safe, effective, caring, responsive and well led.
Adrian Hughes, CQC's Deputy Chief Inspector for Adult Social Care, said:
"People are entitled to services which provide safe, effective, compassionate and high quality care. We assess services against five key questions – Is the service caring? Is the service effective? Is the service safe? Is the service well led? Is the service responsive? – and rate each question and the service overall. Where we find a service meets our characteristics of good or outstanding then we will rate accordingly.
"If we find that a service requires improvement, we will expect them to provide us with a full plan setting out how they will address the issue. We will share our findings with local commissioners, and we will return in due course to check that they have made the required improvements.
"Whenever we find a service to be Inadequate, we will consider taking further action on behalf of the people who use the service. Providers of those services should take the publication of the inadequate rating as a signal that immediate action is required to improve the service”
Full reports on all 64 inspections are available on this website.
Adult Social Care services by local authority area and rating:
- Birch Grove Nursing Home, Brighton and Hove: Good
- Patcham Nursing Home, Brighton and Hove: Good
- Pembroke Hotel Rest Home, Brighton and Hove: Good
- Pembroke Lodge Rest Home, Brighton and Hove: Good
- St Mary's House, Brighton and Hove: Good
- Sunnyside Nursing Home, Buckinghamshire: Good
- Spectrum Domiciliary Care Service, Cornwall: Good
- The Old Roselyon Manor Nursing Home, Cornwall: Good
- The Meadows, Devon: Good
- Drayton House Residential Care Home, Dorset: Good
- Larks Leas, Dorset: Good
- Milestones, Gloucestershire: Good
- Whitehaven Residential Home, Hampshire: Good
- The Briars, Isle of Wight: Good
- Garland House, Kent: Good
- Lulworth House Dementia Residential Care Home, Kent: Good
- Channel View, North Somerset: Good
- Oaklands Care Home, North Somerset: Good
- Gosford House, Oxfordshire: Good
- Heathfield House Nursing Home, Oxfordshire: Good
- Housing & Care 21 - Stanbridge House, Oxfordshire: Good
- Blackberry Hill, Somerset: Good
- 3 Ferrers Drive, Swindon: Good
- Aveland Court Care Home, Torbay: Good
- Ashton House, West Sussex: Good
- Heath Lodge Care Services Limited, West Sussex: Good
- Oak House & Maple Lodge, West Sussex: Good
- Care Management Group - 4 Vallance Gardens, Brighton and Hove: Requires improvement
- The Worthies, Bristol, City of: Requires improvement
- Penhellis Nursing Home, Cornwall: Requires improvement
- Deanbrook, Devon: Requires improvement
- Little Eastbrook Farm, Devon: Requires improvement
- The Firs, Devon: Requires improvement
- Ambleside Residential Care Home, East Sussex: Requires improvement
- Homelea Residential Care Home, East Sussex: Requires improvement
- Queensbridge House, Gloucestershire: Requires improvement
- Wortley Villa, Gloucestershire: Requires improvement
- Ticehurst Care Home With Nursing, Hampshire: Requires improvement
- West Cliff Hall Care Home, Hampshire: Requires improvement
- Ashingham House, Kent: Requires improvement
- Beechfields, Kent: Requires improvement
- Dumpton Lodge, Kent: Requires improvement
- The Elizabeth Anne Nursing Home, Kent: Requires improvement
- Westbank Care Home, Kent: Requires improvement
- Millstream House, Medway: Requires improvement
- Middletown Grange, Oxfordshire: Requires improvement
- OSJCT The Meadows, Oxfordshire: Requires improvement
- Arborough House Limited, Portsmouth: Requires improvement
- Kinross, Portsmouth: Requires improvement
- Grovelands, Somerset: Requires improvement
- Meadowside, Surrey: Requires improvement
- Elton Lodge, West Sussex: Requires improvement
- Mill River Lodge, West Sussex: Requires improvement
- New Elmcroft, West Sussex: Requires improvement
- Blue Ribbon Berkshire, Windsor and Maidenhead: Requires improvement
- St Anne's Residential Home, Cornwall: Inadequate
- Glen Heathers, Hampshire: Inadequate
- Ashmore House, Kent: Inadequate
- Montagu Court Residential Home, Kent: Inadequate
- Port Regis, Kent: Inadequate
- Amicus Care Home, Medway: Inadequate
- The Potteries, Poole: Inadequate
- Tyndale Nursing Home, Somerset: Inadequate
- Stanwell Rest Home, Southampton: Inadequate
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