SafeAre people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?75%Good
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Infection prevention and controlGood
Involving people to manage risksGood
Learning cultureGood
Medicines optimisationGood
Safe and effective staffingGood
Safe environmentsGood
Safe systems, pathways and transitionsGood
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?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?93%★Outstanding
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Care provision, integration and continuityGood
Providing InformationGood
Equity in accessExceptional
Equity in experiences and outcomesExceptional
Listening to and involving peopleExceptional
Person-centred careExceptional
Planning for the futureExceptional
Well-ledIs the home well managed, with a culture of high-quality care?75%Good
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Capable, compassionate and inclusive leadersGood
Freedom to speak upGood
Governance, management and sustainabilityGood
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: 28 good, 5 exceptional. 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. ?
Fourways Residential Home is in the Good, with Outstanding areas tier ?, with 27 other homes in Devon.
90% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).
Fourways (Sidmouth) Limited runs Fourways Residential Home, a residential care home in Sidmouth, Devon with room for 21 residents. It is registered to care for older people.
CQC's latest rating, from December 2024, is Good overall. Safe, effective, caring and well-led were also Good. For responsive, the rating was Outstanding. It was also rated Good at the inspection before, in July 2018. The typical rating in Devon is about 5 years old, so this one is fairly recent. None of its 33 scored standards was below good, and 5 were exceptional.
The kitchen has a food hygiene rating of 5 (very good), from June 2025. That is true of 86% of homes in Devon. 27 other homes in Devon share its tier, “Good, with Outstanding areas”. About 0.4 km away, Keychange Charity Rose Lawn Care Home is rated Outstanding.
