SafeAre people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?75%Good
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Infection prevention and controlGood
Involving people to manage risksGood
Learning cultureGood
Medicines optimisationGood
Safe and effective staffingGood
Safe environmentsGood
Safe systems, pathways and transitionsGood
SafeguardingGood
EffectiveDoes care achieve good outcomes and a good quality of life?71%Good
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Consent to care and treatmentSome shortfalls
Assessing needsGood
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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Workforce wellbeing and enablementSome shortfalls
Independence, choice and controlGood
Kindness, compassion and dignityGood
Responding to people's immediate needsGood
Treating people as individualsGood
ResponsiveAre services organised to meet people's needs?71%Good
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Care provision, integration and continuitySome shortfalls
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: 29 good, 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. ?
Mount Olivet Nursing Home is in the Good, with an area to improve tier ?, with 2 other homes in Torbay.
80% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).
Mount Olivet Nursing Home is one of 74 care homes in Torbay: a 30-bed nursing home in Paignton, run by GrayAreas Limited. CQC registers it to look after people with dementia.
CQC's latest rating, from March 2025, is Good overall. It was Good for safe, effective, caring and responsive as well. CQC rated well-led as Requires improvement. Before that, in June 2023, it was rated Requires improvement. That is more recent than most ratings in Torbay, where the typical rating is about 4 years old. Of the 33 standards CQC scored, 4 fell below good. The lowest was “governance, management and sustainability” (significant shortfalls).
Food hygiene inspectors scored the kitchen 4 out of 5 in January 2026. 83% of homes in Torbay score the top mark of 5. Across Torbay, 80% of rated homes are Good or Outstanding, against 82% for England. 2 of GrayAreas Limited’s 2 rated homes are Good or Outstanding (compare care home groups). None of the 6 nearest rated homes has a higher rating.
