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Bluebell Manor

Whorral Bank, Morpeth, NE61 3AA

Requires improvementpublished 20 January 2025, 19 months ago

Rated Requires improvement: inspectors found the service was not performing as well as it should and told it what to change.

The report

We have not explained this report yet

The CQC has not yet published an inspection report for Bluebell Manor. That is usual for a newly registered service.

The story over the years

Every inspection of Bluebell Manor

8 rated inspections over 8 years: the service has held its Requires improvement rating throughout.

  1. June 2023Requires improvementcurrent ratingup from Inadequate
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Requires improvement
  2. November 2022Inadequatedown from Requires improvement
    Safe: InadequateEffective: Requires improvementCaring: Requires improvementResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Inadequate
  3. April 2021Requires improvementstayed Requires improvement
    Safe: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement
  4. November 2019Requires improvementup from Inadequate
    Safe: GoodEffective: Requires improvementCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Requires improvement
  5. April 2019Inadequatedown from Requires improvement
    Safe: InadequateEffective: Requires improvementCaring: Requires improvementResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Inadequate
  6. September 2018Requires improvementdown from Good
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Requires improvement
  7. October 2016Good
    Safe: GoodEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Good
  8. July 2015Inspected but not rated
    Safe: Requires improvement
  9. February 2015Requires improvement
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: Requires improvementCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Requires improvement
  10. November 2023

    Registered with the Care Quality Commission on 1 November 2023.

Ratings and report dates from the Care Quality Commission. A service can also be visited without a new rating being published, so the timeline shows published inspections, not every contact the CQC has had with the service.

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