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?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?64%Good
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Listening to and involving peopleSome shortfalls
Person-centred careSome shortfalls
Planning for the futureSome shortfalls
Care provision, integration and continuityGood
Equity in accessGood
Equity in experiences and outcomesGood
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 leadersSome shortfalls
Governance, management and sustainabilitySome shortfalls
Learning, improvement and innovationSome shortfalls
Partnerships and communitiesSome shortfalls
Shared direction and cultureSome shortfalls
Freedom to speak upGood
Workforce equality, diversity and inclusionGood
Percentages are CQC scores from its newer way of assessing homes. ?
CQC scored 33 standards: 24 good, 9 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. ?
Harcourt Gardens Care Home is in the Good, with an area to improve tier ?, with 22 other homes in North Yorkshire.
86% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).
WT UK Opco 4 Limited runs Harcourt Gardens Care Home, a nursing home in Harrogate, North Yorkshire with room for 115 residents. CQC registers it to look after older people, people with dementia, younger adults, people with a physical disability and people with a sensory impairment. Most homes in North Yorkshire are smaller: the median there is 29 beds.
CQC's latest rating, from July 2026, is Good overall. Safe, effective, caring and responsive were also Good. Well-led was rated Requires improvement. The typical rating in North Yorkshire is about 5 years old, so this one is fairly recent. 9 of its 33 scored standards were below good, including “consent to care and treatment”.
In North Yorkshire, 86% of rated care homes are Good or Outstanding (England 82%). Its kitchen was rated 4 for food hygiene in April 2026. 94% of homes in North Yorkshire score the top mark of 5. 26 of WT UK Opco 4 Limited’s 28 rated homes are Good or Outstanding (compare care home groups). Hyde Park House, 0.1 km away, is the closest home rated Outstanding.