SafeAre people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?62%Requires improvement
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Infection prevention and controlSignificant shortfalls
Learning cultureSome shortfalls
Safe environmentsSome shortfalls
Involving people to manage risksGood
Medicines optimisationGood
Safe and effective staffingGood
Safe systems, pathways and transitionsGood
SafeguardingGood
EffectiveDoes care achieve good outcomes and a good quality of life?75%Good
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Assessing needsGood
Consent to care and treatmentGood
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?70%Good
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Independence, choice and controlSome shortfalls
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
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: 28 good, 5 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. ?
Limewood Nursing and Residential Home is in the Requires improvement tier ?, with 49 other homes in Staffordshire.
78% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).
What the data says about Limewood Nursing and Residential Home
Limewood Nursing and Residential Home is one of 268 care homes in Staffordshire: a 65-bed nursing home in Stafford, run by Priory CC123 Limited. It is registered to care for older people, people with dementia, younger adults, people with a physical disability, people with mental health needs and people with a sensory impairment. The typical home in Staffordshire has 28 beds, so this one is bigger than average.
The current CQC rating is Requires improvement, published in January 2026. It was Requires improvement for safe and well-led as well. For effective, caring and responsive, the rating was Good. Its previous rating, in October 2018, was Good, so the home has slipped. That is more recent than most ratings in Staffordshire, where the typical rating is about 5 years old. Of the 33 standards CQC scored, 5 fell below good. The lowest was “infection prevention and control” (significant shortfalls).
CQC's register shows no registered manager at the moment. Its kitchen was rated 5 for food hygiene in April 2026. That is true of 85% of homes in Staffordshire. 49 other homes in Staffordshire share its tier, “Requires improvement”. The home changed owner in November 2023. About 1.1 km away, Crispin Court Care Home is rated Outstanding.
