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The Old Vicarage

26 Cottage Road, Wooler, NE71 6AD

Requires improvementpublished 26 November 2025, 9 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 on 29 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 The Old Vicarage

3 rated inspections over 7 years: the service has held its Good rating throughout.

  1. December 2022Goodcurrent ratingdown from Outstanding
    Safe: GoodEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Good

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

  2. May 2018Outstandingup from Good
    Safe: GoodEffective: GoodCaring: OutstandingResponsive: OutstandingWell-led: Good
  3. January 2016Good
    Safe: GoodEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Requires improvement
  4. September 2021

    Registered with the Care Quality Commission on 8 September 2021.

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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