SafeAre people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?53%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
SafeguardingGood
EffectiveDoes care achieve good outcomes and a good quality of life?54%Requires improvement
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Assessing needsSome 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
Consent to care and treatmentGood
CaringAre staff kind, compassionate and respectful?70%Good
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Responding to people's immediate needsSome shortfalls
Independence, choice and controlGood
Kindness, compassion and dignityGood
Treating people as individualsGood
Workforce wellbeing and enablementGood
ResponsiveAre services organised to meet people's needs?68%Good
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Care provision, integration and continuitySome shortfalls
Listening to and involving peopleSome shortfalls
Equity in accessGood
Equity in experiences and outcomesGood
Person-centred careGood
Planning for the futureGood
Providing InformationGood
Well-ledIs the home well managed, with a culture of high-quality care?57%Requires improvement
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Capable, compassionate and inclusive leadersSome shortfalls
Governance, management and sustainabilitySome shortfalls
Learning, improvement and innovationSome shortfalls
Partnerships and communitiesSome shortfalls
Shared direction and cultureSome shortfalls
Freedom to speak upGood
Workforce equality, diversity and inclusionGood
Percentages are CQC scores from its newer way of assessing homes. ?
CQC scored 33 standards: 13 good, 20 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. ?
Red Rose Care Community is in the Requires improvement tier ?, with 36 other homes in Nottinghamshire.
85% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).
Run by Red Homes Healthcare Limited, Red Rose Care Community is a nursing home in Newark, Nottinghamshire with 65 registered beds. Its CQC registration covers older people, people with dementia and younger adults. That is larger than most homes in Nottinghamshire, where the typical home has 26 beds.
CQC's latest rating, from December 2025, is Requires improvement overall. It was Requires improvement for safe, effective and well-led as well. Caring and responsive were rated Good. That matches its previous rating, from August 2022. The typical rating in Nottinghamshire is about 4 years old, so this one is fairly recent. CQC found some shortfalls in “responding to people's immediate needs”, one of 20 standards out of 33 scored below good.
The nearest home with a higher rating is Birches (Good), 1.7 km away. 36 other homes in Nottinghamshire share its tier, “Requires improvement”. Food hygiene inspectors scored the kitchen 5 out of 5 in August 2026. That is true of 89% of homes in Nottinghamshire.
