SafeAre people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?50%Requires improvement
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Medicines optimisationSignificant shortfalls
Infection prevention and controlSome shortfalls
Involving people to manage risksSome shortfalls
Learning cultureSome shortfalls
Safe and effective staffingSome shortfalls
Safe environmentsSome shortfalls
SafeguardingSome shortfalls
Safe systems, pathways and transitionsGood
EffectiveDoes care achieve good outcomes and a good quality of life?58%Requires improvement
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Consent to care and treatmentSome shortfalls
Delivering evidence-based care and treatmentSome shortfalls
How staff, teams and services work togetherSome shortfalls
Monitoring and improving outcomesSome shortfalls
Assessing needsGood
Supporting people to live healthier livesGood
CaringAre staff kind, compassionate and respectful?65%Good
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Kindness, compassion and dignitySome shortfalls
Responding to people's immediate needsSome shortfalls
Independence, choice and controlGood
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?54%Requires improvement
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Governance, management and sustainabilitySignificant shortfalls
Freedom to speak upSome shortfalls
Learning, improvement and innovationSome shortfalls
Partnerships and communitiesSome shortfalls
Shared direction and cultureSome shortfalls
Capable, compassionate and inclusive leadersGood
Workforce equality, diversity and inclusionGood
Percentages are CQC scores from its newer way of assessing homes. ?
CQC scored 33 standards: 13 good, 20 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. ?
CQC's register shows no registered manager for this home. Every care home must have one. The home may be recruiting, or a new manager may be applying to CQC. ?
Hill House - Care Home with Nursing Physical Disabilities is in the Requires improvement tier ?, with 21 other homes in Cheshire East.
77% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).
What the data says about Hill House - Care Home with Nursing Physical Disabilities
Hill House - Care Home with Nursing Physical Disabilities is one of 101 care homes in Cheshire East: a 24-bed nursing home in Sandbach, run by Leonard Cheshire Disability. Its CQC registration covers older people, younger adults, people with a physical disability and people with a learning disability or autism. It is a small home for Cheshire East, where the median is 44 beds.
CQC's latest rating, from August 2026, is Requires improvement overall. It was Requires improvement for safe, effective and well-led as well. For caring and responsive, the rating was Good. Before that, in January 2023, it was rated Good. The typical rating in Cheshire East is about 4 years old, so this one is fairly recent. Of the 33 standards CQC scored, 20 fell below good. The lowest was “medicines optimisation” (significant shortfalls).
In Cheshire East, 77% of rated care homes are Good or Outstanding (England 82%). CQC's register shows no registered manager at the moment. About 1.3 km away, Park House Care Home is rated Good. It is one of 34 homes run by Leonard Cheshire Disability. 19 of those with a rating are Good or Outstanding.
