SafeAre people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?66%Good
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Medicines optimisationSome shortfalls
Safe and effective staffingSome shortfalls
Safe environmentsSome shortfalls
Infection prevention and controlGood
Involving people to manage risksGood
Learning cultureGood
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?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?75%Good
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Care provision, integration and continuityGood
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
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: 27 good, 6 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. ?
Mulberry Court is in the Good, with an area to improve tier ?, with 4 other homes in Dorset.
94% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).
Mulberry Court is a 12-bed residential care home in Gillingham, Dorset, run by Salutem LD BidCo IV Limited. Its CQC registration covers older people, younger adults, people with a physical disability, people with a learning disability or autism, people with a sensory impairment and children. It is a small home for Dorset, where the median is 31 beds.
4 other homes in Dorset share its tier, “Good, with an area to improve”. There is no registered manager on CQC's register right now. Salutem LD BidCo IV Limited runs 19 care homes, and 16 of the 19 rated are Good or Outstanding. Of the 5 closest rated homes, none is rated above it.
CQC's latest rating, from February 2026, is Good overall. Safe, effective, caring and responsive were also Good. Well-led was rated Requires improvement. It was also rated Good at the inspection before, in April 2019. The typical rating in Dorset is about 3 years old, so this one is fairly recent. CQC found significant shortfalls in “governance, management and sustainability”, one of 6 standards out of 33 scored below good.
