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?80%Good
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Kindness, compassion and dignityGood
Responding to people's immediate needsGood
Treating people as individualsGood
Workforce wellbeing and enablementGood
Independence, choice and controlExceptional
ResponsiveAre services organised to meet people's needs?79%Good
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Care provision, integration and continuityGood
Equity in accessGood
Equity in experiences and outcomesGood
Listening to and involving peopleGood
Planning for the futureGood
Providing InformationGood
Person-centred careExceptional
Well-ledIs the home well managed, with a culture of high-quality care?79%Good
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Capable, compassionate and inclusive leadersGood
Freedom to speak upGood
Governance, management and sustainabilityGood
Learning, improvement and innovationGood
Partnerships and communitiesGood
Workforce equality, diversity and inclusionGood
Shared direction and cultureExceptional
Percentages are CQC scores from its newer way of assessing homes. ?
CQC scored 33 standards: 30 good, 3 exceptional. 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. ?
Pulsford Lodge is one of 194 care homes in Somerset: a 49-bed residential care home in Wiveliscombe, run by Somerset Care Limited. Its CQC registration covers older people, people with dementia and younger adults. That is larger than most homes in Somerset, where the typical home has 25 beds.
Food hygiene inspectors scored the kitchen 5 out of 5 in November 2025. 94% of homes in Somerset also score 5. Across Somerset, 89% of rated homes are Good or Outstanding, against 82% for England. Somerset Care Limited runs 21 care homes, and 20 of the 21 rated are Good or Outstanding. About 8.6 km away, Dunkirk Memorial House is rated Outstanding.
Its CQC rating, from October 2026, is Good across the board: overall and for every key question. Its rating before that, in May 2018, was the same. The typical rating in Somerset is about 4 years old, so this one is fairly recent. None of its 33 scored standards was below good, and 3 were exceptional.
