SafeAre people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?69%Good
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Involving people to manage risksSome shortfalls
SafeguardingSome shortfalls
Infection prevention and controlGood
Learning cultureGood
Medicines optimisationGood
Safe and effective staffingGood
Safe environmentsGood
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?90%★Outstanding
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Kindness, compassion and dignityGood
Workforce wellbeing and enablementGood
Independence, choice and controlExceptional
Responding to people's immediate needsExceptional
Treating people as individualsExceptional
ResponsiveAre services organised to meet people's needs?71%Good
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Planning for the futureSome shortfalls
Care provision, integration and continuityGood
Equity in accessGood
Equity in experiences and outcomesGood
Listening to and involving peopleGood
Person-centred careGood
Providing InformationGood
Well-ledIs the home well managed, with a culture of high-quality care?75%Good
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Governance, management and sustainabilitySome shortfalls
Freedom to speak upGood
Learning, improvement and innovationGood
Partnerships and communitiesGood
Shared direction and cultureGood
Workforce equality, diversity and inclusionGood
Capable, compassionate and inclusive leadersExceptional
Percentages are CQC scores from its newer way of assessing homes. ?
CQC scored 33 standards: 25 good, 4 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. ?
Montague House is in the Good, with Outstanding areas tier ?, with 6 other homes in Cambridgeshire.
92% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).
Montague House is one of 132 care homes in Cambridgeshire: a 70-bed nursing home in Huntingdon, run by Hamberley Care (Brampton) Limited. CQC registers it to look after older people, people with dementia, younger adults, people with a physical disability and people with a sensory impairment. The typical home in Cambridgeshire has 35 beds, so this one is bigger than average.
Across Cambridgeshire, 92% of rated homes are Good or Outstanding, against 82% for England. Of the 5 closest rated homes, none is rated above it.
CQC last rated the home in September 2026, giving it Good overall. It was Good for safe, effective, responsive and well-led as well. CQC rated caring as Outstanding. That is up from Requires improvement in May 2023. The typical rating in Cambridgeshire is about 7 years old, so this one is fairly recent. 4 of its 33 scored standards were below good, including “planning for the future”.
