CQC rating
Rated Outstanding
617 services in England are currently rated Outstanding: inspectors found the service performing exceptionally well.
Only a small minority of services reach Outstanding. Inspectors have to find something exceptional, usually in how people are cared for and how the service responds to them.
116 services in South East
Kingfishers
Kingswood Court Care Home
Knights' Grove Care Home
Lady Dane Farmhouse
Linden House
Maids Moreton Hall
Maple Cottage
Maplehurst Nursing Home
Martham House
Melrose Care Home
Mill Green
Milton Keynes Short Breaks and Shared Lives
Moordean
Newport Residential Care Limited
Nyton House
Oak Lodge
Oakside
Oxford Beaumont
Peppard House
Portland Road
Ranworth House
Red Oaks
Rosedene Residential Care Limited
What Outstanding means for your family
Fewer than one in twenty services reach Outstanding, and inspectors have to be able to say what is exceptional about it, not just that nothing was wrong. Most Outstanding ratings are earned on the Caring and Responsive questions: how people are treated, and how the service adapts to them.
Outstanding ratings can be old. The CQC does not re-inspect well-rated services on a fixed cycle, so check the date on each page and whether the manager named in the report is still there.
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