Requires improvementSafe: Requires improvementEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Requires improvementRated 1 year ago↓ Down from Good
SafeAre people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?62%Requires improvement
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Involving people to manage risksSignificant shortfalls
Safe environmentsSome shortfalls
Infection prevention and controlGood
Learning cultureGood
Medicines optimisationGood
Safe and effective staffingGood
Safe systems, pathways and transitionsGood
SafeguardingGood
EffectiveDoes care achieve good outcomes and a good quality of life?75%Good
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Assessing needsGood
Consent to care and treatmentGood
Delivering evidence-based care and treatmentGood
How staff, teams and services work togetherGood
Monitoring and improving outcomesGood
Supporting people to live healthier livesGood
CaringAre staff kind, compassionate and respectful?70%Good
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Workforce wellbeing and enablementSome shortfalls
Independence, choice and controlGood
Kindness, compassion and dignityGood
Responding to people's immediate needsGood
Treating people as individualsGood
ResponsiveAre services organised to meet people's needs?71%Good
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Care provision, integration and continuitySome shortfalls
Equity in accessGood
Equity in experiences and outcomesGood
Listening to and involving peopleGood
Person-centred careGood
Planning for the futureGood
Providing InformationGood
Well-ledIs the home well managed, with a culture of high-quality care?62%Requires improvement
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Governance, management and sustainabilitySignificant shortfalls
Capable, compassionate and inclusive leadersGood
Freedom to speak upGood
Learning, improvement and innovationGood
Partnerships and communitiesGood
Shared direction and cultureGood
Workforce equality, diversity and inclusionGood
Percentages are CQC scores from its newer way of assessing homes. ?
CQC scored 33 standards: 28 good, 5 below good. Use “See the breakdown” on each key question for its standards. ?
CQC hasn't inspected this home for more than 5 years. It re-inspects based on risk, so an old rating doesn't count against a home on this site, but it may not reflect the home today. ?
Barleycroft Care Home is in the Requires improvement tier ?, with 3 other homes in Havering.
92% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).
Barleycroft Care Home is an independent 80-bed nursing home in Romford, Havering, registered with CQC under its own name. Its CQC registration covers older people, people with dementia, younger adults and people with a physical disability. Most homes in Havering are smaller: the median there is 23 beds.
The kitchen has a food hygiene rating of 5 (very good), from October 2026. 93% of homes in Havering also score 5. In Havering, 92% of rated care homes are Good or Outstanding (England 82%). Willows Care Home, 0.1 km away, is the closest home rated Good.
CQC's latest rating, from July 2025, is Requires improvement overall. It was Requires improvement for safe and well-led as well. CQC rated effective, caring and responsive as Good. Before that, in November 2022, it was rated Good. That is more recent than most ratings in Havering, where the typical rating is about 3 years old. Of the 33 standards CQC scored, 5 fell below good. The lowest was “involving people to manage risks” (significant shortfalls).
