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Elm Bank Care Home

81-83 Northampton Road, Kettering, NN15 7JZ

Requires improvementpublished 2 October 2025, 10 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 Elm Bank Care Home on 13 June 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 Elm Bank Care Home

5 rated inspections over 8 years: the service has held its Good rating throughout.

  1. June 2023Goodcurrent rating
    Safe: GoodEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Requires improvement

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  2. February 2022Inspected but not rated
    Safe: Inspected but not rated

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  3. November 2020Requires improvementstayed Requires improvement
    Safe: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement

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  4. December 2019Requires improvementdown from Good
    Safe: GoodEffective: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement

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  5. June 2017Goodstayed Good
    Safe: GoodEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Good

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  6. May 2015Good
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Good

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  7. March 2014

    Report published without a new overall rating.

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  8. November 2013

    Report published without a new overall rating.

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  9. September 2012

    Report published without a new overall rating.

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  10. July 2011

    Registered with the Care Quality Commission on 27 July 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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