Skip to content
CQC ExplainedEvery inspection report, in plain English

CQC report explained · a residential care home, run by Minton Care Hotels

Thurleston Residential Home

Whitton Park, Thurleston Lane, Ipswich, IP1 6TJ

Requires improvementpublished 10 March 2023, 3 years ago

Rated Requires improvement: inspectors found the service was not performing as well as it should and told it what to change.

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

We have not explained this report yet

The CQC published its most recent report on Thurleston Residential Home on 10 March 2023. We are still reading it. Check back soon, or read the report itself on cqc.org.uk.

Read the report on cqc.org.uk
The story over the years

Every inspection of Thurleston Residential Home

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

  1. March 2023Requires improvementcurrent ratingdown from Good
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: Requires improvementCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Requires improvement

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

  2. July 2021Goodstayed Good
    Safe: GoodWell-led: Requires improvement
  3. March 2020Goodstayed Good
    Safe: GoodEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Good
  4. September 2017Goodstayed Good
    Safe: GoodEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Good
  5. April 2016Goodup from Requires improvement
    Safe: GoodEffective: GoodCaring: Requires improvementResponsive: GoodWell-led: Good
  6. March 2015Requires improvement
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: Requires improvementCaring: GoodResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Good
  7. November 2022

    Registered with the Care Quality Commission on 23 November 2022.

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.

Another option

Or stay at home with a private carer

Many people who look at care homes end up staying at home with a carer who comes in for a few hours a day, or lives in. PrimeCarers introduces you to self-employed carers you choose yourself: interviewed, ID and DBS checked, from about £20 an hour or £1,120 a week live-in.

About live-in careHow PrimeCarers works
Same provider

Other services run by Minton Care Hotels Ltd

1 other service on the CQC register. A pattern across a group tells you more than one report.

Nearby

Other care homes near Ipswich

All in Suffolk

Henley House

Ipswich, IP1 · 0.9 km
Good
ResidentialDementia
Rated 4 years agocare home

The White House

Ipswich, IP1 · 1.4 km
Not yet rated
Nursing
Not yet ratedcare home

Sherrington House

Ipswich, IP1 · 2.2 km
Good
ResidentialDementia
Rated 6 years agocare home

Fairways

Ipswich, IP6 · 2.4 km
Good
Residential
Rated 8 years agocare home

Ipswich

Ipswich, IP1 · 2.7 km
Good
Residential
Rated 4 years agocare home