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The Gardens Care Home

Pondfield Close, Salutation Road, Darlington, DL3 8LH

Requires improvementpublished 26 February 2025, 18 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 The Gardens Care Home on 7 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 The Gardens Care Home

3 rated inspections over 3 years: the service has improved, from Requires improvement to Good.

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

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  2. May 2018Goodstayed Good
    Safe: GoodEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Good

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

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  4. June 2015Requires improvement
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: Requires improvementCaring: GoodResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Good

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  5. June 2014

    Report published without a new overall rating.

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  6. September 2013

    Report published without a new overall rating.

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  7. June 2013

    Report published without a new overall rating.

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  8. May 2013

    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. May 2012

    Report published without a new overall rating.

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  11. November 2010

    Registered with the Care Quality Commission on 18 November 2010.

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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