Residential care home · Essex
Don Thomson House Residential Care Home
Low Road, Dovercourt, Harwich, CO12 3TS
How it compares in Essex
Don Thomson House Residential Care Home is in the Good tier ?, with 237 other homes in Essex. 84% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).
- Outstanding 7 (2%)
- Good, with Outstanding areas 17 (4%)
- Good 238 (60%)
- Good, with an area to improve 48 (12%)
- Requires improvement 57 (14%)
- Inadequate 4 (1%)
- Not yet rated 24 (6%)
Care homes nearby
Other homes run by Sanctuary Care Limited
84 care homes in total: 3 Outstanding, 76 Good, 4 Requires improvement, 1 Not yet rated.
About Don Thomson House Residential Care Home
Run by Sanctuary Care Limited, Don Thomson House Residential Care Home is a residential care home in Harwich, Essex with 28 registered beds. CQC registers it to look after older people, people with dementia, people with a physical disability and people with a sensory impairment.
Across Essex, 84% of rated homes are Good or Outstanding, against 82% for England. The kitchen has a food hygiene rating of 5 (very good), from November 2025. 89% of homes in Essex also score 5. 79 of Sanctuary Care Limited’s 83 rated homes are Good or Outstanding (compare care home groups). Of the 6 closest rated homes, none is rated above it.
CQC rated it Good overall and in all five key questions in March 2018. Its rating before that, in October 2015, was the same. CQC hasn't re-rated the home for over 5 years, like 48% of homes in Essex. Here is how rating age varies by council.