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What the CQC found at Birkdale Tower Care Home

Requires improvementpublished 15 October 2021, 4 years ago

Rated Requires improvement: inspectors found the home 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?: Requires improvement; Is care built around the person? Care plans, activities, complaints.
Well-led?: Requires improvement; Is the home run well? The manager, the culture, how problems get found and fixed.

The report

We have not explained this report yet

The CQC has not yet published an inspection report for Birkdale Tower Care Home.

The story over the years

Every inspection of Birkdale Tower Care Home

Each visit the CQC has published, newest first, back to the day the home was registered.

October 2021Requires improvementcurrent rating
Safe: Requires improvementEffective: Requires improvementCaring: GoodResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement
September 2025
Registered with the Care Quality Commission on 24 September 2025.

Ratings and report dates from the Care Quality Commission, Open Government Licence v3.0. A home can also be visited without a new rating being published, so the timeline shows published inspections.

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Care at home

38 live-in carers within about an hour of Sefton

These are self-employed carers on PrimeCarers, the introductory agency that runs this directory. Each has a profile with their own rates and reviews from families, and you choose who to talk to.

Most charge £980 to £1,270 a week. 34 can care for a couple. 11 years' experience on average.

Enesta Gladys M.

1 review

From £1,176 a week, 15 years caring

Based about 19 minutes from Sefton. Can care for a couple

Inaune H.

1 review

From £910 a week, 2 years caring

Based about 31 minutes from Sefton. Can care for a couple

Rodrigo Javier B.

1 review

From £1,295 a week, 22 years caring

Based about 38 minutes from Sefton. Can care for a couple

Don M.

1 review

From £1,204 a week, 6 years caring

Based about 40 minutes from Sefton. Can care for a couple

“He developed a close affinity with Terence, spending time talking with him before he retired to bed and looking after his needs during the night.”

John P., about Rodrigo Javier B.

“It was clear that she genuinely cared and her warm approach really helped put our minds at ease.”

Sara K., about Trudi M.

See live-in carers near SeftonProfiles, rates and reviews are free to look at.

Every carer has had an enhanced DBS check in the last 18 months, ID and right-to-work checks and an online interview. Their skills and training are for you to check with them. Carers set their own rates, and who is free changes week to week.