Requires improvementSafe: Requires improvementEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Requires improvementRated 2 years ago↓ Down from Good
SafeAre people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?66%Requires improvement
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Learning cultureSome shortfalls
Medicines optimisationSome shortfalls
SafeguardingSome shortfalls
Infection prevention and controlGood
Involving people to manage risksGood
Safe and effective staffingGood
Safe environmentsGood
Safe systems, pathways and transitionsGood
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?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?57%Requires improvement
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Capable, compassionate and inclusive leadersSignificant shortfalls
Governance, management and sustainabilitySignificant shortfalls
Learning, improvement and innovationSome shortfalls
Freedom to speak upGood
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: 27 good, 6 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. ?
David Mitchell runs Easterlea, a residential care home in Waterlooville, Hampshire with room for 19 residents. Its CQC registration covers older people.
The current CQC rating is Requires improvement, published in September 2024. Safe and well-led were also Requires improvement. For effective, caring and responsive, the rating was Good. Its previous rating, in March 2019, was Good, so the home has slipped. That is more recent than most ratings in Hampshire, where the typical rating is about 4 years old. Of the 33 standards CQC scored, 6 fell below good. The lowest was “capable, compassionate and inclusive leaders” (significant shortfalls).
About 0.2 km away, Holmside is rated Good. 1 of David Mitchell’s 2 rated homes are Good or Outstanding (compare care home groups). Food hygiene inspectors scored the kitchen 4 out of 5 in March 2025. 84% of homes in Hampshire score the top mark of 5. Across Hampshire, 85% of rated homes are Good or Outstanding, against 82% for England.
