Requires improvementSafe: Requires improvementEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Requires improvementRated 1 year ago↓ Down from GoodNew owner since March 2025
SafeAre people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?53%Requires improvement
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Involving people to manage risksSignificant shortfalls
Learning cultureSome shortfalls
Medicines optimisationSome shortfalls
Safe and effective staffingSome shortfalls
Safe environmentsSome shortfalls
SafeguardingSome shortfalls
Infection prevention and controlGood
Safe systems, pathways and transitionsGood
EffectiveDoes care achieve good outcomes and a good quality of life?67%Good
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Consent to care and treatmentSome shortfalls
Monitoring and improving outcomesSome shortfalls
Assessing needsGood
Delivering evidence-based care and treatmentGood
How staff, teams and services work togetherGood
Supporting people to live healthier livesGood
CaringAre staff kind, compassionate and respectful?65%Good
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Responding to people's immediate needsSome shortfalls
Workforce wellbeing and enablementSome shortfalls
Independence, choice and controlGood
Kindness, compassion and dignityGood
Treating people as individualsGood
ResponsiveAre services organised to meet people's needs?64%Good
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Care provision, integration and continuitySome shortfalls
Listening to and involving peopleSome shortfalls
Planning for the futureSome shortfalls
Equity in accessGood
Equity in experiences and outcomesGood
Person-centred careGood
Providing InformationGood
Well-ledIs the home well managed, with a culture of high-quality care?54%Requires improvement
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Capable, compassionate and inclusive leadersSome shortfalls
Freedom to speak upSome shortfalls
Governance, management and sustainabilitySome shortfalls
Learning, improvement and innovationSome shortfalls
Partnerships and communitiesSome shortfalls
Shared direction and cultureSome shortfalls
Workforce equality, diversity and inclusionGood
Percentages are CQC scores from its newer way of assessing homes. ?
CQC scored 33 standards: 14 good, 19 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. ?
Old Hastings House is in the Requires improvement tier ?, with 41 other homes in East Sussex.
85% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).
Simicare Limited runs Old Hastings House, a residential care home in Hastings, East Sussex with room for 60 residents. It is registered to care for older people, people with dementia, younger adults, people with a physical disability and people with a sensory impairment. Most homes in East Sussex are smaller: the median there is 24 beds.
The current CQC rating is Requires improvement, published in May 2025. Safe and well-led were also Requires improvement. For effective, caring and responsive, the rating was Good. That is down from Good in December 2022. The typical rating in East Sussex is about 4 years old, so this one is fairly recent. Of the 33 standards CQC scored, 19 fell below good. The lowest was “involving people to manage risks” (significant shortfalls).
About 0.3 km away, Evergreen is rated Good. The home changed owner in March 2025. In East Sussex, 85% of rated care homes are Good or Outstanding (England 82%). Food hygiene inspectors scored the kitchen 3 out of 5 in September 2026. 90% of homes in East Sussex score the top mark of 5.
