SafeAre people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?63%Good
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Involving people to manage risksSome shortfalls
Learning cultureSome shortfalls
Safe environmentsSome shortfalls
SafeguardingSome shortfalls
Infection prevention and controlGood
Medicines optimisationGood
Safe and effective staffingGood
Safe systems, pathways and transitionsGood
EffectiveDoes care achieve good outcomes and a good quality of life?71%Good
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Consent to care and treatmentSome shortfalls
Assessing needsGood
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?68%Good
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Care provision, integration and continuitySome shortfalls
Listening to and involving peopleSome shortfalls
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: 22 good, 11 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. ?
Earlfield Lodge is in the Good, with an area to improve tier ?, with 16 other homes in North Somerset.
95% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).
Earlfield Lodge is a 35-bed residential care home in Weston-Super-Mare, North Somerset, run by Earlfield ZG Limited. CQC registers it to look after older people, people with dementia and younger adults.
16 other homes in North Somerset share its tier, “Good, with an area to improve”. The kitchen has a food hygiene rating of 5 (very good), from February 2026. 77% of homes in North Somerset also score 5. Of the 6 closest rated homes, none is rated above it.
The current CQC rating is Good, published in May 2026. Safe, effective, caring and responsive were also Good. Well-led was rated Requires improvement. That is up from Requires improvement in April 2023. That is more recent than most ratings in North Somerset, where the typical rating is about 4 years old. Of the 33 standards CQC scored, 11 fell below good. The lowest was “consent to care and treatment” (some shortfalls).
