Residential care home · Gloucestershire

Sydenham House

High Street, Blakeney, GL15 4EB

Requires improvement Safe: Requires improvementEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Requires improvement Rated 2 years ago ↓ Down from Good

CQC rating

Requires improvement
Published 12 December 2023 Rated 2 years ago ?
  • 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

Earlier ratings ?

  • February 2021Inspected, no new rating
  • June 2018GoodSECRW

The home changed owner or registration. Earlier ratings are on the CQC website: previous registration ↗.

Read the full report on the CQC website ↗

How it compares in Gloucestershire

Sydenham House is in the Requires improvement tier ?, with 24 other homes in Gloucestershire. 87% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).

  • Outstanding 12 (6%)
  • Good, with Outstanding areas 20 (10%)
  • Good 118 (61%)
  • Good, with an area to improve 14 (7%)
  • Requires improvement 25 (13%)
  • Not yet rated 5 (3%)

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Sydenham House at a glance

Sydenham House is an independent 19-bed residential care home in Blakeney, Gloucestershire, registered with CQC under its own name. Its CQC registration covers older people, people with dementia, people with a physical disability and people with a sensory impairment.

The current CQC rating is Requires improvement, published in December 2023. It was Requires improvement for safe and well-led as well. CQC rated effective, caring and responsive as Good. Its previous rating, in June 2018, was Good, so the home has slipped.

About 0.3 km away, Yew Tree House is rated Good. In Gloucestershire, 87% of rated care homes are Good or Outstanding (England 82%).