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Pembroke Lodge

32 Alexandra Road, Reading, RG1 5PF

Requires improvementpublished 7 July 2025, 13 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 Pembroke Lodge on 17 August 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 Pembroke Lodge

4 rated inspections over 8 years: the service has held its Requires improvement rating throughout.

  1. August 2023Requires improvementcurrent ratingdown from Good
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: Requires improvementCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Requires improvement

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  2. May 2019Goodstayed Good
    Safe: GoodEffective: GoodWell-led: Requires improvement

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  3. December 2016Goodup from Requires improvement
    Safe: GoodEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Good

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  4. November 2015Requires improvement
    Safe: GoodEffective: Requires improvementCaring: GoodResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement

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  5. September 2013

    Report published without a new overall rating.

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  6. April 2013

    Registered with the Care Quality Commission on 2 April 2013.

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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