SafeAre people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?47%Requires improvement
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Involving people to manage risksSignificant shortfalls
Medicines optimisationSignificant shortfalls
Safe and effective staffingSignificant shortfalls
Safe environmentsSignificant shortfalls
Infection prevention and controlSome shortfalls
Learning cultureGood
Safe systems, pathways and transitionsGood
SafeguardingGood
EffectiveDoes care achieve good outcomes and a good quality of life?71%Good
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Delivering evidence-based care and treatmentSome shortfalls
Assessing needsGood
Consent to 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?80%Good
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Kindness, compassion and dignityGood
Responding to people's immediate needsGood
Treating people as individualsGood
Workforce wellbeing and enablementGood
Independence, choice and controlExceptional
ResponsiveAre services organised to meet people's needs?68%Good
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Person-centred careSome shortfalls
Providing InformationSome shortfalls
Care provision, integration and continuityGood
Equity in accessGood
Equity in experiences and outcomesGood
Listening to and involving peopleGood
Planning for the futureGood
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
Capable, compassionate and inclusive leadersGood
Freedom to speak upGood
Learning, improvement and innovationGood
Partnerships and communitiesGood
Shared direction and cultureGood
Workforce equality, diversity and inclusionGood
Percentages are CQC scores from its newer way of assessing homes. ?
CQC scored 33 standards: 23 good, 1 exceptional, 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. ?
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. ?
Larchmere House Nursing Home is in the Requires improvement tier ?, with 90 other homes in Kent.
79% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).
Family Care UK Limited runs Larchmere House Nursing Home, a nursing home in Cranbrook, Kent with room for 33 residents. It is registered to care for older people and people with dementia.
The current CQC rating is Requires improvement, published in November 2025. Safe and well-led were also Requires improvement. Effective, caring and responsive were rated Good. Its previous rating, in August 2017, was Good, so the home has slipped. That is more recent than most ratings in Kent, where the typical rating is about 4 years old. CQC found significant shortfalls in “involving people to manage risks”, one of 9 standards out of 33 scored below good.
Staplehurst Manor Care Home, 2.9 km away, is the closest home rated Good. CQC's register shows no registered manager at the moment. The kitchen has a food hygiene rating of 5 (very good), from January 2026. That is true of 90% of homes in Kent. In Kent, 79% of rated care homes are Good or Outstanding (England 82%).
