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Chilton Meadows Care Home

Union Road, Onehouse, Stowmarket, IP14 1HL

Requires improvementpublished 8 August 2025, 12 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

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The CQC published its most recent report on Chilton Meadows Care Home on 10 May 2022. 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 Chilton Meadows Care Home

7 rated inspections over 7 years: the service has held its Requires improvement rating throughout.

  1. May 2022Requires improvementcurrent ratingup from Inadequate
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Requires improvement

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  2. August 2021Inadequatedown from Good
    Safe: InadequateWell-led: Inadequate

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  3. May 2019Goodup from Requires improvement
    Safe: GoodWell-led: Good

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  4. April 2018Requires improvementstayed Requires improvement
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Requires improvement

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  5. April 2017Requires improvementup from Inadequate
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: Requires improvementCaring: Requires improvementResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement

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  6. July 2016Inadequatedown from Requires improvement
    Safe: InadequateEffective: InadequateCaring: InadequateResponsive: InadequateWell-led: Inadequate

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  7. June 2015Requires improvement
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: Requires improvementCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Requires improvement

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  8. November 2013

    Report published without a new overall rating.

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  9. November 2012

    Report published without a new overall rating.

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  10. January 2012

    Report published without a new overall rating.

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  11. November 2010

    Registered with the Care Quality Commission on 16 November 2010.

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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