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CQC rating

Rated Requires improvement

2,265 services in England are currently rated Requires improvement: inspectors found the service was not performing as well as it should and told it what to change.

The service was told what to put right. The report matters here: some Requires improvement ratings are about records and management, others are about people being at risk.

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449 services in South East

Victoria Grand

Worthing, BN11
Requires improvement
ResidentialDementia
Rated 15 months agoReport explained

Walton Park Care Home

Walton-on-Thames, KT12
Requires improvement
NursingDementia
Rated 18 months agoReport explained

Waxham House

Ryde, PO33
Requires improvement
ResidentialDementia
Rated 3 months agocare home

Wellington House

Deal, CT14
Requires improvement
Residential
Rated 4 years agocare home

Wendover House

Aylesbury, HP22
Requires improvement
Residential
Rated 4 years agocare home

Westcliffe Villa

Westgate-on-Sea, CT8
Requires improvement
Residential
Rated 2 years agoReport explained

West Hope Mews

Horsham, RH12
Requires improvement
Residential
Rated 4 years agocare home

Westwood

Hastings, TN34
Requires improvement
Residential
Rated 3 years agocare home

Wey View

Addlestone, KT15
Requires improvement
Residential
Rated 3 years agocare home

Whitehatch

Horley, RH6
Requires improvement
Residential
Rated 4 years agocare home

Wimborne

Hayling Island, PO11
Requires improvement
ResidentialDementia
Rated 2 years agoReport explained

Winchester House

Sheerness, ME12
Requires improvement
Residential
Rated 4 years agocare home
Reading a rating

What Requires improvement means for your family

Requires improvement covers a wide range. At one end, a home with kind staff whose paperwork was not kept up. At the other, a service where risks to people were not managed and inspectors found a breach of the regulations.

The overall rating usually follows the Safe and Well-led questions, so those are the ones to read. Our explanation on each page shows all five question ratings and what inspectors said about each, and lists any breaches.

A Requires improvement rating that is two or three years old under a manager who has since left tells you little. A recent one is worth a direct conversation with the manager about what has changed.

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