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St Mary's Care Home

Church Chare, Chester-le-Street, DH3 3PZ

Goodpublished 27 February 2025, 18 months ago

Rated Good: inspectors found the service performing well and meeting their expectations.

The report

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The CQC published its most recent report on St Mary's Care Home on 6 December 2022. 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 St Mary's Care Home

7 rated inspections over 7 years: the service has held its Requires improvement rating throughout.

  1. December 2022Requires improvementcurrent rating
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: Requires improvementCaring: GoodResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement

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  2. March 2022Inspected but not rated
    Safe: Inspected but not rated

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  3. January 2020Requires improvementdown from Good
    Safe: GoodEffective: Requires improvementCaring: GoodResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement

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  4. May 2017Goodup from Requires improvement
    Safe: GoodEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Good

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  5. February 2017Requires improvementup from Inadequate
    Safe: InadequateEffective: Requires improvementCaring: Requires improvementResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement

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  6. July 2016Inadequatestayed Inadequate
    Safe: InadequateEffective: InadequateCaring: GoodResponsive: InadequateWell-led: Inadequate

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  7. December 2015Inadequatedown from Requires improvement
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: InadequateResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Inadequate

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  8. September 2015Requires improvement
    Safe: GoodEffective: Requires improvementCaring: GoodResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement

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  9. July 2014

    Report published without a new overall rating.

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  10. January 2014

    Report published without a new overall rating.

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  11. March 2013

    Report published without a new overall rating.

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  12. October 2012

    Report published without a new overall rating.

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  13. June 2012

    Report published without a new overall rating.

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  14. May 2011

    Registered with the Care Quality Commission on 3 May 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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