SafeAre people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?69%Good
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Involving people to manage risksSome shortfalls
Medicines optimisationSome shortfalls
Infection prevention and controlGood
Learning cultureGood
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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Assessing needsSome shortfalls
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?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?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?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: 29 good, 4 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. ?
Brookfield is in the Good, with an area to improve tier ?, with 7 other homes in Oxfordshire.
88% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).
Methodist Homes runs Brookfield, a nursing home in Oxford, Oxfordshire with room for 66 residents. CQC registers it to look after older people, people with dementia and younger adults.
7 other homes in Oxfordshire share its tier, “Good, with an area to improve”. The kitchen has a food hygiene rating of 5 (very good), from August 2023. 88% of homes in Oxfordshire also score 5. Methodist Homes runs 69 care homes, and 60 of the 69 rated are Good or Outstanding. Of the 6 closest rated homes, none is rated above it.
CQC's latest rating, from September 2025, is Good overall. Safe, effective, caring and responsive were also Good. For well-led, the rating was Requires improvement. That matches its previous rating, from November 2019. The typical rating in Oxfordshire is about 6 years old, so this one is fairly recent. CQC found significant shortfalls in “governance, management and sustainability”, one of 4 standards out of 33 scored below good.
