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Winscombe Care Home

Southwick Road, North Boarhunt, Fareham, PO17 6JF

Requires improvementpublished 28 August 2025, 12 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 Winscombe Care Home on 18 April 2018. 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 Winscombe Care Home

2 rated inspections over a year: the service has improved, from Requires improvement to Good.

  1. April 2018Goodcurrent ratingup from Requires improvement
    Safe: GoodEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Good

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  2. April 2017Requires improvement
    Safe: GoodEffective: Requires improvementCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Requires improvement

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  3. September 2014

    Report published without a new overall rating.

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  4. April 2014

    Report published without a new overall rating.

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  5. July 2013

    Report published without a new overall rating.

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  6. October 2012

    Report published without a new overall rating.

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  7. April 2012

    Report published without a new overall rating.

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  8. December 2011

    Registered with the Care Quality Commission on 1 December 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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