Nursing home · North Yorkshire

Belmont House Care Home

High Street, Starbeck, Harrogate, HG2 7LW

Requires improvement Safe: Requires improvementEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Requires improvement Rated 1 year ago

CQC rating

Requires improvement
Published 3 December 2024 Rated 1 year ago ?
  • SafeAre people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?62%Requires improvement
    See the breakdownHide the breakdown3 of 8 below good
    • Medicines optimisationSignificant shortfalls
    • Involving people to manage risksSome 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?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
    See the breakdownHide the breakdown1 of 5 below good
    • 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
    See the breakdownHide the breakdown1 of 7 below good
    • 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?61%Requires improvement
    See the breakdownHide the breakdown2 of 7 below good
    • Governance, management and sustainabilitySignificant shortfalls
    • Learning, improvement and innovationSignificant 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. ?

Earlier ratings ?

  • October 2022Requires improvementSECRW
  • December 2020Requires improvementSECRW
  • June 2019GoodSECRW
  • May 2018Requires improvementSECRW
  • March 2017Requires improvementSECRW
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  • January 2016Requires improvementSECRW

The home changed owner or registration. Earlier ratings are on the CQC website: previous registration ↗.

Read the full report on the CQC website ↗

How it compares in North Yorkshire

Belmont House Care Home is in the Requires improvement tier ?, with 25 other homes in North Yorkshire. 86% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).

  • Outstanding 7 (4%)
  • Good, with Outstanding areas 7 (4%)
  • Good 126 (64%)
  • Good, with an area to improve 23 (12%)
  • Requires improvement 26 (13%)
  • Inadequate 1 (1%)
  • Not yet rated 6 (3%)

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    Outstanding S: GoodE: GoodC: OutstandingR: OutstandingW: Good Rated 6 years ago
  • Brackenley
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    Good S: GoodE: GoodC: GoodR: GoodW: Outstanding Rated 7 years ago
  • The Gables
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    Good S: GoodE: GoodC: GoodR: GoodW: Good Rated 8 years ago
  • Henshaws Specialist College
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  • Bilton Hall Nursing Home
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What the data says about Belmont House Care Home

Run by MMCG (CCH) (Belmont) Limited, Belmont House Care Home is a nursing home in Harrogate, North Yorkshire with 106 registered beds. Its CQC registration covers older people, people with dementia and younger adults. The typical home in North Yorkshire has 29 beds, so this one is bigger than average.

The current CQC rating is Requires improvement, published in December 2024. It was Requires improvement for safe and well-led as well. Effective, caring and responsive were rated Good. It was also rated Requires improvement at the inspection before, in October 2022. The typical rating in North Yorkshire is about 5 years old, so this one is fairly recent. CQC found significant shortfalls in “medicines optimisation”, one of 7 standards out of 33 scored below good.

The nearest home with a higher rating is Station View (Good), 0.5 km away. In North Yorkshire, 86% of rated care homes are Good or Outstanding (England 82%).