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. ?
Middlefield House Nursing Home is in the Requires improvement tier ?, with 61 other homes in Lincolnshire.
76% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).
Middlefield House Nursing Home is a 18-bed nursing home in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, run by Prime Life Limited. It is registered to care for younger adults and people with a learning disability or autism. That is smaller than most homes in Lincolnshire, where the typical home has 30 beds.
Tigh Bruadair, 0.6 km away, is the closest home rated Good. Prime Life Limited runs 54 care homes, and 43 of the 53 rated are Good or Outstanding. 61 other homes in Lincolnshire share its tier, “Requires improvement”. Its kitchen was rated 5 for food hygiene in January 2026. 95% of homes in Lincolnshire also score 5.
The current CQC rating is Requires improvement, published in February 2020. Safe and well-led were also Requires improvement. CQC rated effective, caring and responsive as Good. Its rating before that, in March 2019, was the same. At over 5 years old, this rating is older than most. 36% of ratings in Lincolnshire are as old (how rating age varies by council).
