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Freestones Residential Care Home

85 Finedon Road, Irthlingborough, Wellingborough, NN9 5TY

Requires improvementpublished 23 December 2025, 8 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 Freestones Residential Care Home on 16 March 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 Freestones Residential Care Home

2 rated inspections over 2 years: the service has held its Good rating throughout.

  1. March 2022Inspected but not ratedcurrent rating
    Safe: Inspected but not rated

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  2. February 2018Goodstayed Good
    Safe: GoodEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Good

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  3. February 2016Good
    Safe: GoodEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Good

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  4. June 2014

    Report published without a new overall rating.

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  5. June 2013

    Report published without a new overall rating.

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  6. December 2012

    Report published without a new overall rating.

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  7. December 2011

    Report published without a new overall rating.

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  8. June 2011

    Registered with the Care Quality Commission on 12 June 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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