SafeAre people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?50%Requires improvement
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Infection prevention and controlSome shortfalls
Involving people to manage risksSome shortfalls
Learning cultureSome shortfalls
Medicines optimisationSome shortfalls
Safe and effective staffingSome shortfalls
Safe environmentsSome shortfalls
Safe systems, pathways and transitionsSome shortfalls
SafeguardingSome shortfalls
EffectiveDoes care achieve good outcomes and a good quality of life?50%Requires improvement
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Assessing needsSome shortfalls
Consent to care and treatmentSome shortfalls
Delivering evidence-based care and treatmentSome shortfalls
How staff, teams and services work togetherSome shortfalls
Monitoring and improving outcomesSome shortfalls
Supporting people to live healthier livesSome shortfalls
CaringAre staff kind, compassionate and respectful?65%Good
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Kindness, compassion and dignitySome shortfalls
Responding to people's immediate needsSome shortfalls
Independence, choice and controlGood
Treating people as individualsGood
Workforce wellbeing and enablementGood
ResponsiveAre services organised to meet people's needs?61%Requires improvement
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Care provision, integration and continuitySome shortfalls
Equity in experiences and outcomesSome shortfalls
Person-centred careSome shortfalls
Providing InformationSome shortfalls
Equity in accessGood
Listening to and involving peopleGood
Planning for the futureGood
Well-ledIs the home well managed, with a culture of high-quality care?61%Requires improvement
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Freedom to speak upSome shortfalls
Governance, management and sustainabilitySome shortfalls
Learning, improvement and innovationSome shortfalls
Partnerships and communitiesSome shortfalls
Capable, compassionate and inclusive leadersGood
Shared direction and cultureGood
Workforce equality, diversity and inclusionGood
Percentages are CQC scores from its newer way of assessing homes. ?
CQC scored 33 standards: 9 good, 24 below good. Use “See the breakdown” on each key question for its standards. ?
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Oakleigh Residential Care Home is in the Requires improvement tier ?, with 9 other homes in Cambridgeshire.
92% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).
Oakleigh Residential Care Home is a 27-bed residential care home in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, run by Oakleigh Care Homes Limited. CQC registers it to look after older people, people with dementia, younger adults and people with a physical disability.
The current CQC rating is Requires improvement, published in July 2026. Safe, effective, responsive and well-led were also Requires improvement. For caring, the rating was Good. It was also rated Requires improvement at the inspection before, in September 2019. The typical rating in Cambridgeshire is about 7 years old, so this one is fairly recent. 24 of its 33 scored standards were below good, including “kindness, compassion and dignity”.
Its kitchen was rated 4 for food hygiene in May 2026. 88% of homes in Cambridgeshire score the top mark of 5. Across Cambridgeshire, 92% of rated homes are Good or Outstanding, against 82% for England. About 2.0 km away, Glebe Farm is rated Good.
