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Shaws Wood Residential Care Home

Mill Road, Strood, ME2 3BU

Requires improvementpublished 8 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 Shaws Wood Residential Care Home on 27 January 2021. 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 Shaws Wood Residential Care Home

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

  1. January 2021Inspected but not ratedcurrent rating
    Safe: Inspected but not rated

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  2. September 2018Goodstayed Good
    Safe: GoodEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Good

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  3. November 2017Goodstayed Good
    Safe: Requires improvement

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  4. December 2016Goodstayed Good
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Good

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  5. March 2015Good
    Safe: GoodEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Requires improvement

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  6. July 2014

    Report published without a new overall rating.

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  7. November 2013

    Report published without a new overall rating.

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  8. November 2012

    Report published without a new overall rating.

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  9. July 2012

    Report published without a new overall rating.

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  10. April 2011

    Registered with the Care Quality Commission on 11 April 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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