CQC report explained · a residential care home
What the CQC found at Magnolia House
Rated Inadequate: inspectors found the home performing badly and the CQC has taken enforcement action.
- Safe?
- Inadequate
- 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?
- Requires improvement
- Are people treated with kindness and dignity?
- Responsive?
- Requires improvement
- Is care built around the person? Care plans, activities, complaints.
- Well-led?
- Inadequate
- 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 Magnolia House.
Every inspection of Magnolia House
3 rated inspections over 8 years: the service has slipped, from Good to Inadequate.
- September 2023Inadequatecurrent ratingSafe: InadequateEffective: Requires improvementCaring: Requires improvementResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Inadequate
- September 2020Inspected but not ratedSafe: Inspected but not rated
- September 2017Goodstayed GoodSafe: GoodEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Good
- September 2015GoodSafe: GoodEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Good
- January 2026
Registered with the Care Quality Commission on 5 January 2026.
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