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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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328 services in North West

Lighthouse Lodge

Wallasey, CH45
Requires improvement
ResidentialDementia
Rated 5 years agocare home

Lime House

Nr Warrington, WA3
Requires improvement
ResidentialDementia
Rated 8 months agocare home

Longwood Lodge

Oldham, OL8
Requires improvement
ResidentialDementia
Rated 3 years agocare home

Lyngate Care Home

Bolton, BL3
Requires improvement
ResidentialDementia
Rated 4 months agocare home

Lytham Grange

Blackpool, FY4
Requires improvement
ResidentialDementia
Rated 2 years agocare home

Middlewich

Middlewich, CW10
Requires improvement
ResidentialDementia
Rated 11 months agocare home

Marine View Lodge

Wallasey, CH45
Requires improvement
NursingDementia
Rated 5 years agocare home

Marion Lauder House

Manchester, M22
Requires improvement
NursingDementia
Rated 3 years agocare home

Marland Court

Rochdale, OL11
Requires improvement
NursingDementia
Rated 3 years agocare home

Maryland Care Home

Liverpool, L37
Requires improvement
ResidentialDementia
Rated 10 months agocare home

Meade Close

Manchester, M41
Requires improvement
Residential
Rated 6 months agoReport explained

Meadowview Care Home

Warrington, WA5
Requires improvement
ResidentialDementia
Rated 19 months agocare home

Meadowview Care Home

Rochdale, OL11
Requires improvement
ResidentialDementia
Rated 20 months agocare home

Meadway Court

Stockport, SK7
Requires improvement
ResidentialDementia
Rated last monthcare home

Middleton

Manchester, M24
Requires improvement
Residential
Rated 2 years agoReport explained
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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