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Lakeside Watermead Care Home

Brambling, Watermead, Aylesbury, HP19 0WH

Requires improvementpublished 9 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

We have not explained this report yet

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

The story over the years

Every inspection of Lakeside Watermead Care Home

4 rated inspections over 5 years: the service has held its Requires improvement rating throughout.

  1. October 2019Requires improvementcurrent ratingup from Inadequate
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Requires improvement
  2. March 2019Inadequatedown from Good
    Safe: InadequateEffective: InadequateCaring: Requires improvementResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Inadequate
  3. October 2015Goodup from Requires improvement
    Safe: GoodEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Good
  4. October 2014Requires improvement
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Requires improvement
  5. March 2024

    Registered with the Care Quality Commission on 27 March 2024.

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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