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What the CQC found at Lake Side Nursing Home
Rated Requires improvement: inspectors found the home was not performing as well as it should and told it what to change.
- Safe?
- Good
- 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?
- 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.
We have not explained this report yet
The CQC has not yet published an inspection report for Lake Side Nursing Home.
Every inspection of Lake Side Nursing Home
2 rated inspections over a year: the service has held its Requires improvement rating throughout.
- February 2023Requires improvementcurrent ratingstayed Requires improvementSafe: GoodEffective: Requires improvementCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Requires improvement
- July 2022Requires improvementSafe: Requires improvementEffective: Requires improvementCaring: GoodResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement
- March 2022Inspected but not ratedSafe: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement
- March 2026
Registered with the Care Quality Commission on 2 March 2026.
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84 live-in carers within about an hour of Cheshire West and Chester
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Most charge £980 to £1,260 a week. 76 can care for a couple. 10 years' experience on average.
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