SafeAre people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?53%Requires improvement
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Involving people to manage risksSignificant shortfalls
Safe environmentsSignificant shortfalls
Infection prevention and controlSome shortfalls
Medicines optimisationSome shortfalls
Safe and effective staffingSome shortfalls
Learning cultureGood
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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Treating people as individualsSome shortfalls
Independence, choice and controlGood
Kindness, compassion and dignityGood
Responding to people's immediate needsGood
Workforce wellbeing and enablementGood
ResponsiveAre services organised to meet people's needs?68%Good
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Care provision, integration and continuitySome shortfalls
Person-centred careSome shortfalls
Equity in accessGood
Equity in experiences and outcomesGood
Listening to and involving peopleGood
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
Learning, improvement and innovationSome shortfalls
Capable, compassionate and inclusive leadersGood
Freedom to speak upGood
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, 10 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. ?
Mayflower Care Home is in the Requires improvement tier ?, with 90 other homes in Kent.
79% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).
Mayflower Care Home is an independent 76-bed nursing home in Gravesend, Kent, registered with CQC under its own name. Its CQC registration covers older people, people with dementia, younger adults, people with a physical disability, people with mental health needs and people with a sensory impairment. Most homes in Kent are smaller: the median there is 24 beds.
CQC's latest rating, from March 2026, is Requires improvement overall. It was Requires improvement for safe and well-led as well. Effective, caring and responsive were rated Good. Its previous rating, in November 2021, was Good, so the home has slipped. The typical rating in Kent is about 4 years old, so this one is fairly recent. 10 of its 33 scored standards were below good, including “involving people to manage risks”.
About 0.8 km away, Wombwell Hall is rated Good. CQC's register shows no registered manager at the moment. Its kitchen was rated 5 for food hygiene in May 2026. That is true of 90% of homes in Kent. Across Kent, 79% of rated homes are Good or Outstanding, against 82% for England.
