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Hungerford Care Home

Wantage Road, Newtown, Hungerford, RG17 0PN

Requires improvementpublished 5 December 2023, 2 years ago

Rated Requires improvement: inspectors found the service was not performing as well as it should and told it what to change.

The five questions inspectors ask
Safe?
Requires improvement
Are people protected from harm? Staffing, medicines, infection control, safeguarding.
Effective?
Requires improvement
Does the care work? Training, consent, food and drink, working with GPs and nurses.
Caring?
Good
Are people treated with kindness and dignity?
Responsive?
Good
Is care built around the person? Care plans, activities, complaints.
Well-led?
Requires improvement
Is the service run well? The manager, the culture, how problems get found and fixed.
The report

We have not explained this report yet

The CQC has not yet published an inspection report for Hungerford Care Home. That is usual for a newly registered service.

The story over the years

Every inspection of Hungerford Care Home

2 rated inspections over 6 years: the service has slipped, from Good to Requires improvement.

  1. December 2023Requires improvementcurrent rating
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: Requires improvementCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Requires improvement
  2. February 2022Inspected but not rated
    Safe: Inspected but not rated
  3. November 2017Good
    Safe: GoodEffective: GoodWell-led: Good
  4. April 2025

    Registered with the Care Quality Commission on 25 April 2025.

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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