HF Trust - Lympne Place (High Trees and The Beeches)
Aldington Road, Lympne, Hythe, CT21 4PA
Requires improvementSafe: Requires improvementEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Requires improvementRated 1 year ago↓ Down from Good
SafeAre people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?56%Requires improvement
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Involving people to manage risksSignificant shortfalls
Learning cultureSome shortfalls
Medicines optimisationSome shortfalls
Safe environmentsSome shortfalls
SafeguardingSome shortfalls
Infection prevention and controlGood
Safe and effective staffingGood
Safe systems, pathways and transitionsGood
EffectiveDoes care achieve good outcomes and a good quality of life?67%Good
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Consent to care and treatmentSome shortfalls
Supporting people to live healthier livesSome shortfalls
Assessing needsGood
Delivering evidence-based care and treatmentGood
How staff, teams and services work togetherGood
Monitoring and improving outcomesGood
CaringAre staff kind, compassionate and respectful?70%Good
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Workforce wellbeing and enablementSome shortfalls
Independence, choice and controlGood
Kindness, compassion and dignityGood
Responding to people's immediate needsGood
Treating people as individualsGood
ResponsiveAre services organised to meet people's needs?71%Good
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Listening to and involving peopleSome shortfalls
Care provision, integration and continuityGood
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?54%Requires improvement
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Governance, management and sustainabilitySignificant shortfalls
Capable, compassionate and inclusive leadersSome shortfalls
Freedom to speak upSome shortfalls
Learning, improvement and innovationSome shortfalls
Shared direction and cultureSome shortfalls
Partnerships and communitiesGood
Workforce equality, diversity and inclusionGood
Percentages are CQC scores from its newer way of assessing homes. ?
CQC scored 33 standards: 19 good, 14 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. ?
HF Trust - Lympne Place (High Trees and The Beeches) is in the Requires improvement tier ?, with 90 other homes in Kent.
79% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).
HF Trust - Lympne Place (High Trees and The Beeches) at a glance
HF Trust - Lympne Place (High Trees and The Beeches) is an independent 12-bed residential care home in Hythe, Kent, registered with CQC under its own name. It is registered to care for people with a learning disability or autism. The typical home in Kent has 24 beds, so this one is on the small side.
The current CQC rating is Requires improvement, published in August 2025. Safe and well-led were also Requires improvement. For effective, caring and responsive, the rating was Good. Before that, in January 2018, it was rated Good. That is more recent than most ratings in Kent, where the typical rating is about 4 years old. 14 of its 33 scored standards were below good, including “involving people to manage risks”.
90 other homes in Kent share its tier, “Requires improvement”. HF Trust Limited runs 25 care homes, and 21 of the 25 rated are Good or Outstanding. May Lodge, 2.6 km away, is the closest home rated Good.
