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:
13. MNCEnews-03-07-2023-Obelisk House-CENupload
Overall: Requires improvement. Latest inspection: 13 October 2022. Obelisk Rise, Northampton, NN2 8SA. Provided and run by: West Northamptonshire Council Photo: Google
14. Brampton View Care Home
Overall: Inadequate. Latest inspection: 5 April 2023. Brampton View, Brampton Lane, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN6 8GH. Provided and run by: Brampton View Limited Photo: Google
15. MNCEnews-03-07-2023-Ashurst Mews Care Home-CENupload
Overall: Requires improvement. Latest inspection: 3 August 2022. Northampton Lane North, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN3 7RQ. Provided and run by: Avery (Lucas Court) Limited Photo: Ashurst Mews Care Home
16. Southfields House
Overall: Requires improvement. Latest inspection: 17 January 2022. Farmhill Road, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN3 5DS. Provided and run by: West Northamptonshire Council. Photo: Google