SafeAre people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?56%Requires improvement
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Infection prevention and controlSome shortfalls
Involving people to manage risksSome shortfalls
Medicines optimisationSome shortfalls
Safe and effective staffingSome shortfalls
Safe environmentsSome shortfalls
Safe systems, pathways and transitionsSome shortfalls
Learning cultureGood
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?71%Good
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Listening to and involving peopleSome shortfalls
Care provision, integration and continuityGood
Equity in accessGood
Equity in experiences and outcomesGood
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
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Governance, management and sustainabilitySome shortfalls
Learning, improvement and innovationSome shortfalls
Partnerships and communitiesSome shortfalls
Shared direction and cultureSome shortfalls
Capable, compassionate and inclusive leadersGood
Freedom to speak upGood
Workforce equality, diversity and inclusionGood
Percentages are CQC scores from its newer way of assessing homes. ?
CQC scored 33 standards: 18 good, 15 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. ?
CQC's register shows no registered manager for this home. Every care home must have one. The home may be recruiting, or a new manager may be applying to CQC. ?
Daleside Nursing Home is in the Requires improvement tier ?, with 26 other homes in Wirral.
70% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).
An independent nursing home in Birkenhead, Wirral, Daleside Nursing Home is run by an organisation of the same name. It has 43 beds. Its CQC registration covers older people, people with dementia and younger adults. Most homes in Wirral are smaller: the median there is 28 beds.
The current CQC rating is Requires improvement, published in December 2025. It was Requires improvement for safe, caring and well-led as well. CQC rated effective and responsive as Good. Its previous rating, in January 2021, was Good, so the home has slipped. The typical rating in Wirral is about 4 years old, so this one is fairly recent. 15 of its 33 scored standards were below good, including “independence, choice and control”.
Salisbury House Residential Home, 0.2 km away, is the closest home rated Good. Its kitchen was rated 5 for food hygiene in February 2026. That is true of 84% of homes in Wirral. Across Wirral, 70% of rated homes are Good or Outstanding, against 82% for England. CQC's register shows no registered manager at the moment.
