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Brenalwood Care Home

Hall Lane, Walton-on-the-Naze, CO14 8HN

Goodpublished 19 November 2025, 9 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 Brenalwood Care Home on 2 November 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 Brenalwood Care Home

5 rated inspections over 7 years: the service has slipped, from Good to Requires improvement.

  1. November 2023Requires improvementcurrent ratingup from Inadequate
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: Requires improvementCaring: Requires improvementResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement

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  2. January 2023Inadequatestayed Inadequate
    Safe: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement

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  3. November 2022Inadequatedown from Good
    Safe: InadequateEffective: InadequateCaring: InadequateResponsive: InadequateWell-led: Inadequate

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  4. March 2019Goodstayed Good
    Safe: GoodEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Good

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  5. September 2016Good
    Safe: GoodEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Good

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  6. July 2013

    Report published without a new overall rating.

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  7. March 2013

    Report published without a new overall rating.

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  8. August 2012

    Registered with the Care Quality Commission on 21 August 2012.

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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