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The Old Vicarage Care Home

2 Waterville Road, North Shields, NE29 6SL

Requires improvementpublished 18 June 2025, 14 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 Old Vicarage Care Home on 4 January 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 The Old Vicarage Care Home

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

  1. January 2023Requires improvementcurrent rating
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement

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

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  3. June 2018Goodup from Requires improvement
    Safe: GoodWell-led: Good

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  4. March 2017Requires improvement
    Safe: GoodEffective: Requires improvementCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Requires improvement

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  5. October 2015Inspected but not rated
    Well-led: Requires improvement

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  6. June 2015Requires improvement
    Safe: GoodEffective: Requires improvementCaring: GoodResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement

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  7. February 2014

    Report published without a new overall rating.

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  8. December 2010

    Registered with the Care Quality Commission on 13 December 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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