SafeAre people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?62%Requires improvement
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Safe environmentsSignificant shortfalls
Medicines optimisationSome shortfalls
SafeguardingSome shortfalls
Infection prevention and controlGood
Involving people to manage risksGood
Learning cultureGood
Safe and effective staffingGood
Safe systems, pathways and transitionsGood
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?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?79%Good
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Care provision, integration and continuityGood
Equity in accessGood
Equity in experiences and outcomesGood
Person-centred careGood
Planning for the futureGood
Providing InformationGood
Listening to and involving peopleExceptional
Well-ledIs the home well managed, with a culture of high-quality care?71%Good
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Governance, management and sustainabilitySome 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, 1 exceptional, 4 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. ?
Matson House is in the Good, with an area to improve tier ?, with 13 other homes in Gloucestershire.
87% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).
Matson House is a 13-bed residential care home in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, run by Selwyn Care Limited. Its CQC registration covers younger adults and people with a learning disability or autism. That is smaller than most homes in Gloucestershire, where the typical home has 25 beds.
CQC last rated the home in March 2026, giving it Good overall. Effective, caring, responsive and well-led were also Good. For safe, the rating was Requires improvement. It was also rated Good at the inspection before, in January 2019. The typical rating in Gloucestershire is about 5 years old, so this one is fairly recent. 4 of its 33 scored standards were below good, including “safe environments”.
