When inspectors from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspect care homes, they grade each provider on safety, effectiveness, care, responsiveness and whether each setting is well-led.
Care providers are given an overall grade of outstanding, good, requires improvement or inadequate.
If a setting ‘requires improvement’, this means the service is not performing as well as it should and the CQC has told the service how it must improve.
If a care home is rated as ‘inadequate’, this means that the service is performing badly and the CQC has taken action against the person or organisation that runs it.
Here are the 15 Northampton care homes that have been rated as ‘requires improvement’ or ‘inadequate’, according to the CQC:
9. Church View Residential Home
Overall: Inadequate. Latest inspection: 3 August 2021.The Drive, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 4SA. Provided and run by: Sanpas Limited Photo: Google
10. Symphony House Nursing Home
Overall: Requires improvement. Latest inspection: 25 May 2022. Queens Park Parade, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN2 6LP. Provided and run by: Symphony Care Limited Photo: Google
11. St Christopher's Home
Overall: Requires improvement. Latest inspection: 27 January 2021. Abington Park Crescent, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN3 3AD. Provided and run by: St Christopher's Homes Photo: Google
12. MNCEnews-24-08-22-Kingsthorpe Grange-CENupload
Overall: Requires improvement. Latest inspection: 7 July 2022. Harborough Road, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN2 8LT. Provided and run by: St. Matthews Limited Photo: NW