Requires improvementSafe: Requires improvementEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Requires improvementRated 2 years ago↓ Down from Good
SafeAre people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?56%Requires improvement
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SafeguardingSignificant shortfalls
Learning cultureSome shortfalls
Medicines optimisationSome shortfalls
Safe and effective staffingSome shortfalls
Safe environmentsSome shortfalls
Infection prevention and controlGood
Involving people to manage risksGood
Safe systems, pathways and transitionsGood
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?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?62%Requires improvement
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Governance, management and sustainabilitySignificant shortfalls
Shared direction and cultureSome shortfalls
Capable, compassionate and inclusive leadersGood
Freedom to speak upGood
Learning, improvement and innovationGood
Partnerships and communitiesGood
Workforce equality, diversity and inclusionGood
Percentages are CQC scores from its newer way of assessing homes. ?
CQC scored 33 standards: 25 good, 8 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. ?
Honeybourne House is in the Requires improvement tier ?, with 16 other homes in Plymouth.
79% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).
Honeybourne House is a 21-bed nursing home in Plymouth. The home is its own registered provider. CQC registers it to look after older people, younger adults, people with a physical disability, people with a learning disability or autism and people with a sensory impairment.
About 0.6 km away, Vicarage Residential Home is rated Good. The kitchen has a food hygiene rating of 5 (very good), from June 2025. 87% of homes in Plymouth also score 5. Across Plymouth, 79% of rated homes are Good or Outstanding, against 82% for England.
The current CQC rating is Requires improvement, published in October 2024. It was Requires improvement for safe and well-led as well. CQC rated effective, caring and responsive as Good. Its previous rating, in April 2018, was Good, so the home has slipped. Ratings in Plymouth are typically about 4 years old, which makes this one newer than most. 8 of its 33 scored standards were below good, including “safeguarding”.
