SafeAre people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?59%Requires improvement
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Involving people to manage risksSome shortfalls
Medicines optimisationSome shortfalls
Safe and effective staffingSome shortfalls
Safe environmentsSome shortfalls
SafeguardingSome shortfalls
Infection prevention and controlGood
Learning cultureGood
Safe systems, pathways and transitionsGood
EffectiveDoes care achieve good outcomes and a good quality of life?62%Good
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Delivering evidence-based care and treatmentSome shortfalls
Monitoring and improving outcomesSome shortfalls
Supporting people to live healthier livesSome shortfalls
Assessing needsGood
Consent to care and treatmentGood
How staff, teams and services work togetherGood
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?64%Good
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Care provision, integration and continuitySome shortfalls
Person-centred careSome shortfalls
Planning for the futureSome shortfalls
Equity in accessGood
Equity in experiences and outcomesGood
Listening to and involving peopleGood
Providing InformationGood
Well-ledIs the home well managed, with a culture of high-quality care?71%Good
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Governance, management and sustainabilitySome shortfalls
Capable, compassionate and inclusive leadersGood
Freedom to speak upGood
Learning, improvement and innovationGood
Partnerships and communitiesGood
Shared direction and cultureGood
Workforce equality, diversity and inclusionGood
Percentages are CQC scores from its newer way of assessing homes. ?
CQC scored 33 standards: 20 good, 13 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. ?
Riverside is in the Good, with an area to improve tier ?, with 3 other homes in Tameside.
74% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).
Riverside is one of 42 care homes in Tameside: a 90-bed nursing home in Hyde, run by Care UK Care Services Limited. Its CQC registration covers older people, people with dementia, younger adults, people with a physical disability and people with mental health needs. That is larger than most homes in Tameside, where the typical home has 42 beds.
3 other homes in Tameside share its tier, “Good, with an area to improve”. Food hygiene inspectors scored the kitchen 5 out of 5 in January 2026. 85% of homes in Tameside also score 5. Of the 6 closest rated homes, none is rated above it. It is one of 19 homes run by Care UK Care Services Limited. 10 of those with a rating are Good or Outstanding. Care UK Care Services Limited has run the home since September 2024, when it changed owner.
The current CQC rating is Good, published in November 2025. It was Good for effective, caring, responsive and well-led as well. For safe, the rating was Requires improvement. Its rating before that, in May 2019, was the same. Ratings in Tameside are typically about 3 years old, which makes this one newer than most. Of the 33 standards CQC scored, 13 fell below good. The lowest was “responding to people's immediate needs” (some shortfalls).
