Requires improvementSafe: Requires improvementEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Requires improvementRated 3 years ago↓ Down from Good
SafeAre people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?Requires improvement
EffectiveDoes care achieve good outcomes and a good quality of life?Good
CaringAre staff kind, compassionate and respectful?Good
ResponsiveAre services organised to meet people's needs?Good
Well-ledIs the home well managed, with a culture of high-quality care?Requires improvement
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. ?
Sunrise Nursing Home is in the Requires improvement tier ?, with 29 other homes in Suffolk.
81% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).
Sunrise Nursing Home is a 30-bed nursing home in Felixstowe, Suffolk, run by South Coast Care Homes Limited. CQC registers it to look after older people, people with dementia, people with a physical disability, people with mental health needs and people with a sensory impairment.
The current CQC rating is Requires improvement, published in May 2023. Safe and well-led were also Requires improvement. For effective, caring and responsive, the rating was Good. Its previous rating, in April 2020, was Good, so the home has slipped.
In Suffolk, 81% of rated care homes are Good or Outstanding (England 82%). The kitchen has a food hygiene rating of 5 (very good), from September 2025. That is true of 92% of homes in Suffolk. Montague Road Care Home, 0.2 km away, is the closest home rated Outstanding. South Coast Care Homes Limited runs 5 care homes, and 2 of the 5 rated are Good or Outstanding.
