Requires improvementSafe: Requires improvementEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Requires improvementRated 4 years ago↓ Down from GoodNew owner since January 2025
SafeAre people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?Requires improvement
EffectiveDoes care achieve good outcomes and a good quality of life?Good
CaringAre staff kind, compassionate and respectful?Good
ResponsiveAre services organised to meet people's needs?Good
Well-ledIs the home well managed, with a culture of high-quality care?Requires improvement
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. ?
The home changed owner in January 2025. Its rating dates from before the change. ?
This rating was carried over from the home's previous registration, usually after a change of owner. ?
Kings Lodge Nursing Home is in the Requires improvement tier ?, with 47 other homes in West Sussex.
85% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).
Kings Lodge Nursing Home is a 77-bed nursing home in Chichester, West Sussex, run by Olympus Opco LTD. Its CQC registration covers older people, people with dementia, younger adults, people with a physical disability and people with mental health needs. That is larger than most homes in West Sussex, where the typical home has 27 beds.
The current CQC rating is Requires improvement, published in December 2021. Safe and well-led were also Requires improvement. CQC rated effective, caring and responsive as Good. The rating was carried over from a previous registration, which usually happens when a home changes owner. That is down from Good in November 2018.
About 1.1 km away, Hambrook Meadows is rated Good. Olympus Opco LTD runs 15 care homes, and 11 of the 15 rated are Good or Outstanding. In West Sussex, 85% of rated care homes are Good or Outstanding (England 82%). The kitchen has a food hygiene rating of 5 (very good), from February 2026. That is true of 92% of homes in West Sussex. The home changed owner in January 2025.
