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Braemar Lodge Residential Care Home

481 Victoria Avenue, Sothend-on-Sea, SS2 6NL

Goodpublished 3 June 2025, 14 months ago

Rated Good: inspectors found the service performing well and meeting their expectations.

The report

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The CQC published its most recent report on Braemar Lodge Residential Care Home on 24 August 2023. We are still reading it. Check back soon, or read the report itself on cqc.org.uk.

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The story over the years

Every inspection of Braemar Lodge Residential Care Home

6 rated inspections over 7 years: the service has improved, from Inadequate to Requires improvement.

  1. August 2023Requires improvementcurrent ratingstayed Requires improvement
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Requires improvement

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  2. June 2022Requires improvementdown from Good
    Safe: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement

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  3. July 2019Goodstayed Good
    Safe: Requires improvementWell-led: Good

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  4. September 2017Goodup from Requires improvement
    Safe: GoodEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Good

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  5. September 2016Requires improvementup from Inadequate
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: Requires improvementCaring: GoodResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement

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  6. May 2016Inadequate
    Safe: InadequateEffective: InadequateCaring: Requires improvementResponsive: InadequateWell-led: Inadequate

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  7. August 2013

    Report published without a new overall rating.

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  8. December 2012

    Report published without a new overall rating.

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  9. June 2012

    Report published without a new overall rating.

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  10. February 2011

    Registered with the Care Quality Commission on 14 February 2011.

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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