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Sonning Gardens Care Home

Old Bath Road, Sonning, Reading, RG4 6TQ

Outstandingpublished 9 June 2018, 8 years ago

Rated Outstanding: inspectors found the service performing exceptionally well.

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

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The CQC published its most recent report on Sonning Gardens Care Home on 25 March 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 Sonning Gardens Care Home

Each visit the CQC has published, newest first, back to the day the service was registered.

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

    We are reading this report · the original is on cqc.org.uk

  2. June 2018Outstanding
    Safe: GoodEffective: OutstandingCaring: GoodResponsive: OutstandingWell-led: Outstanding

    We are reading this report · the original is on cqc.org.uk

  3. August 2017

    Registered with the Care Quality Commission on 1 August 2017.

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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