SafeAre people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?59%Requires improvement
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Involving people to manage risksSignificant shortfalls
Medicines optimisationSignificant shortfalls
Learning cultureSome shortfalls
Infection prevention and controlGood
Safe and effective staffingGood
Safe environmentsGood
Safe systems, pathways and transitionsGood
SafeguardingGood
EffectiveDoes care achieve good outcomes and a good quality of life?71%Good
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Delivering evidence-based care and treatmentSome shortfalls
Assessing needsGood
Consent to 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?75%Good
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Independence, choice and controlGood
Kindness, compassion and dignityGood
Responding to people's immediate needsGood
Treating people as individualsGood
Workforce wellbeing and enablementGood
ResponsiveAre services organised to meet people's needs?71%Good
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Planning for the futureSome shortfalls
Care provision, integration and continuityGood
Equity in accessGood
Equity in experiences and outcomesGood
Listening to and involving peopleGood
Person-centred careGood
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
Learning, improvement and innovationSome shortfalls
Capable, compassionate and inclusive leadersGood
Freedom to speak upGood
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: 26 good, 7 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. ?
Belmont Care Home is in the Requires improvement tier ?, with 65 other homes in Lancashire.
83% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).
Belmont Care Home is one of 413 care homes in Lancashire: a 49-bed residential care home in Preston, run by Imperial Care Consortium Ltd. CQC registers it to look after older people, people with dementia, younger adults and people with mental health needs. The typical home in Lancashire has 28 beds, so this one is bigger than average.
About 0.7 km away, Longridge Hall and Lodge is rated Good. It is one of 5 homes run by Imperial Care Consortium Ltd. 4 of those with a rating are Good or Outstanding. In Lancashire, 83% of rated care homes are Good or Outstanding (England 82%). The kitchen has a food hygiene rating of 5 (very good), from September 2025. 77% of homes in Lancashire also score 5.
CQC's latest rating, from July 2026, is Requires improvement overall. It was Requires improvement for safe and well-led as well. For effective, caring and responsive, the rating was Good. Its rating before that, in March 2020, was the same. The typical rating in Lancashire is about 5 years old, so this one is fairly recent. Of the 33 standards CQC scored, 7 fell below good. The lowest was “involving people to manage risks” (significant shortfalls).
