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?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?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?50%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 inclusionSome shortfalls
Percentages are CQC scores from its newer way of assessing homes. ?
CQC scored 33 standards: 24 good, 9 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. ?
Poplars Nursing and Residential Care Home is in the Good, with an area to improve tier ?, with 30 other homes in Staffordshire.
78% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).
Poplars Nursing and Residential Care Home in brief
Run by Tawnylodge Limited, Poplars Nursing and Residential Care Home is a nursing home in Burton On Trent, Staffordshire with 60 registered beds. CQC registers it to look after older people and people with dementia. That is larger than most homes in Staffordshire, where the typical home has 28 beds.
Tawnylodge Limited runs 3 care homes, and all 3 rated are Good or Outstanding. Field House, 0.8 km away, is the closest home rated Outstanding. In Staffordshire, 78% of rated care homes are Good or Outstanding (England 82%). Its kitchen was rated 5 for food hygiene in January 2026. 85% of homes in Staffordshire also score 5.
CQC last rated the home in June 2024, giving it Good overall. It was Good for safe, effective, caring and responsive as well. Well-led was rated Requires improvement. It was also rated Good at the inspection before, in January 2023. The typical rating in Staffordshire is about 5 years old, so this one is fairly recent. 9 of its 33 scored standards were below good, including “workforce wellbeing and enablement”.
