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Gairloch Residential Care Home

11-15 Russell Road, Clacton-on-Sea, CO15 6BE

Requires improvementpublished 16 September 2025, 11 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 Gairloch Residential Care Home on 9 January 2020. 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 Gairloch Residential Care Home

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

  1. January 2020Goodcurrent ratingstayed Good
    Safe: GoodEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Good

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

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  3. May 2015Good
    Safe: GoodEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Good

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  4. May 2014

    Report published without a new overall rating.

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  5. March 2014

    Report published without a new overall rating.

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  6. March 2013

    Report published without a new overall rating.

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  7. January 2011

    Registered with the Care Quality Commission on 25 January 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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