Requires improvementSafe: GoodEffective: Requires improvementCaring: Requires improvementResponsive: GoodWell-led: Requires improvementRated 5 years ago↑ Up from InadequateNew owner since October 2025
SafeAre people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?Good
EffectiveDoes care achieve good outcomes and a good quality of life?Requires improvement
CaringAre staff kind, compassionate and respectful?Requires improvement
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. ?
The home changed owner in October 2025. Its rating dates from before the change. ?
This rating was carried over from the home's previous registration, usually after a change of owner. ?
Swan House is in the Requires improvement tier ?, with 29 other homes in Buckinghamshire.
73% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).
Swan House is one of 125 care homes in Buckinghamshire: a 33-bed residential care home in Buckingham, run by Agincare (Southwark) Limited. It is registered to care for older people, people with dementia, younger adults, people with a physical disability and people with a sensory impairment.
Agincare (Southwark) Limited has run the home since October 2025, when it changed owner. Food hygiene inspectors scored the kitchen 5 out of 5 in July 2025. 90% of homes in Buckinghamshire also score 5. In Buckinghamshire, 73% of rated care homes are Good or Outstanding (England 82%). About 0.0 km away, Shaftesbury Court (High Street) is rated Good. 7 of Agincare (Southwark) Limited’s 12 rated homes are Good or Outstanding (compare care home groups).
CQC's latest rating, from October 2021, is Requires improvement overall. It was Requires improvement for effective, caring and well-led as well. CQC rated safe and responsive as Good. The rating was carried over from a previous registration, which usually happens when a home changes owner. That is up from Inadequate in January 2021. The rating is more than 5 years old. In Buckinghamshire, 54% of ratings are that old (see how rating age varies by council).
