SafeAre people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?75%Good
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Infection prevention and controlGood
Involving people to manage risksGood
Learning cultureGood
Medicines optimisationGood
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?55%Requires improvement
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Independence, choice and controlSome shortfalls
Kindness, compassion and dignitySome shortfalls
Responding to people's immediate needsSome shortfalls
Treating people as individualsSome shortfalls
Workforce wellbeing and enablementGood
ResponsiveAre services organised to meet people's needs?75%Good
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Care provision, integration and continuityGood
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?64%Good
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Capable, compassionate and inclusive leadersSome shortfalls
Governance, management and sustainabilitySome shortfalls
Shared direction and cultureSome shortfalls
Freedom to speak upGood
Learning, improvement and innovationGood
Partnerships and communitiesGood
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. ?
Blair Park Residential Care Home is in the Good, with an area to improve tier ?, with 43 other homes in Kent.
79% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).
Blair Park Residential Care Home is one of 485 care homes in Kent: a 40-bed residential care home in Sittingbourne, run by Charing Park Investments Limited. CQC registers it to look after older people, people with dementia and younger adults. That is larger than most homes in Kent, where the typical home has 24 beds.
The kitchen has a food hygiene rating of 5 (very good), from May 2025. 90% of homes in Kent also score 5. In Kent, 79% of rated care homes are Good or Outstanding (England 82%). The nearest home with a higher rating is Insight SBS ltd 201 London Road (Outstanding), 1.3 km away.
CQC's latest rating, from September 2024, is Good overall. It was Good for safe, effective, responsive and well-led as well. For caring, the rating was Requires improvement. Its rating before that, in December 2022, was the same. The typical rating in Kent is about 4 years old, so this one is fairly recent. Of the 33 standards CQC scored, 7 fell below good. The lowest was “independence, choice and control” (some shortfalls).
