Skip to content
CQC ExplainedEvery inspection report, in plain English

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.

All servicesCare homesHome care agenciesOutstandingGoodInadequate
Region:AllEast MidlandsEast of EnglandLondonNorth EastNorth WestSouth EastSouth WestWest MidlandsYorkshire and The Humber

260 services in East Midlands

Oaklodge Care Home

Northampton, NN5
Requires improvement
ResidentialDementia
Rated 10 months agocare home

Oakwell House

Retford, DN22
Requires improvement
Residential
Rated 3 years agocare home

Oakwood Bungalows

Chesterfield, S43
Requires improvement
Residential
Rated 3 years agocare home

Oakwood Lodge

Boston, PE20
Requires improvement
ResidentialDementia
Rated 5 years agocare home

Oat Hill Mews

Market Harborough, LE16
Requires improvement
ResidentialDementia
Rated 2 months agocare home

Oat Hill Mews

Market Harborough, LE16
Requires improvement
ResidentialDementia
Rated 2 months agocare home

Obelisk House

Northampton, NN2
Requires improvement
ResidentialDementia
Rated 3 years agocare home

OSJCT Foxby Court

Gainsborough, DN21
Requires improvement
ResidentialDementia
Rated 2 years agoReport explained

Osmaston Grange

Belper, DE56
Requires improvement
NursingDementia
Rated 4 years agocare home

Park House Care Home

Wellingborough, NN8
Requires improvement
NursingDementia
Rated 3 years agocare home

Pennine Care Centre

Glossop, SK13
Requires improvement
ResidentialDementia
Rated 22 months agoReport explained

Penrith Drive

Wellingborough, NN8
Requires improvement
Residential
Rated 14 months agoReport explained

Phoenix Lodge

High Peak, SK22
Requires improvement
Residential
Rated 5 years agocare home

Pine Lodge

Corby, NN18
Requires improvement
ResidentialDementia
Rated 4 years agocare home

Pine View Care Home

Leicester, LE3
Requires improvement
ResidentialDementia
Rated 16 months agocare home

Queens Lodge

Leicester, LE2
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.

Another option

Or stay at home with a private carer

Many people who look at care homes end up staying at home with a carer who comes in for a few hours a day, or lives in. PrimeCarers introduces you to self-employed carers you choose yourself: interviewed, ID and DBS checked, from about £20 an hour or £1,120 a week live-in.

About live-in careHow PrimeCarers works