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What the CQC found at Dove Court Care Home

Requires improvementpublished 6 October 2023, 3 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?: Good; 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 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 Dove Court Care Home.

The story over the years

Every inspection of Dove Court Care Home

2 rated inspections over 6 years: the service has slipped, from Good to Requires improvement.

October 2023Requires improvementcurrent ratingdown from Good
Safe: Requires improvementEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Requires improvement
December 2017Good
Safe: Requires improvementEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Good
May 2026
Registered with the Care Quality Commission on 11 May 2026.

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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85 live-in carers within about an hour of Lancashire

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 £1,260 a week. 78 can care for a couple. 11 years' experience on average.

Ayoade A.

1 review

From £1,078 a week, 4 years caring

Based about 6 minutes from Lancashire. Can care for a couple

Don M.

1 review

From £1,204 a week, 6 years caring

Based about 10 minutes from Lancashire. Can care for a couple

Sheridan W.

1 review

From £1,610 a week, 23 years caring

Based about 14 minutes from Lancashire. Can care for a couple

Tracy O.

1 review

From £1,260 a week, 25 years caring

Based about 23 minutes from Lancashire. Can care for a couple

“She understands the needs of an elderly person in the early stages of dementia and has treated my mother with great kindness and skill.”

Simon W., about Ncebakazi V.

“Thanks to Tracy, Dad was always immaculately dressed and clean, his meals were all home cooked and nutritionally well balanced and his home was always kept really clean and tidy.”

Jackie S., about Tracy O.

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

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