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
Safe systems, pathways and transitionsSome shortfalls
Infection prevention and controlGood
Learning cultureGood
SafeguardingGood
EffectiveDoes care achieve good outcomes and a good quality of life?62%Good
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Consent to care and treatmentSome shortfalls
Monitoring and improving outcomesSome shortfalls
Supporting people to live healthier livesSome shortfalls
Assessing needsGood
Delivering evidence-based care and treatmentGood
How staff, teams and services work togetherGood
CaringAre staff kind, compassionate and respectful?65%Good
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Kindness, compassion and dignitySome shortfalls
Responding to people's immediate needsSome shortfalls
Independence, choice and controlGood
Treating people as individualsGood
Workforce wellbeing and enablementGood
ResponsiveAre services organised to meet people's needs?71%Good
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Equity in experiences and outcomesSome shortfalls
Care provision, integration and continuityGood
Equity in accessGood
Listening to and involving peopleGood
Person-centred careGood
Planning for the futureGood
Providing InformationGood
Well-ledIs the home well managed, with a culture of high-quality care?75%Good
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Capable, compassionate and inclusive leadersGood
Freedom to speak upGood
Governance, management and sustainabilityGood
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: 22 good, 11 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. ?
The Cotswolds is in the Good, with an area to improve tier ?, with 9 other homes in West Northamptonshire.
70% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).
Run by Oakleaf Care (Hartwell) Limited, The Cotswolds is a nursing home in Northampton, West Northamptonshire with 41 registered beds. CQC registers it to look after older people, younger adults, people with a physical disability and people with a sensory impairment. Most homes in West Northamptonshire are smaller: the median there is 22 beds.
CQC last rated the home in December 2025, giving it Good overall. It was Good for effective, caring, responsive and well-led as well. CQC rated safe as Requires improvement. Its rating before that, in January 2018, was the same. The typical rating in West Northamptonshire is about 3 years old, so this one is fairly recent. 11 of its 33 scored standards were below good, including “kindness, compassion and dignity”.
Food hygiene inspectors scored the kitchen 5 out of 5 in August 2019. That is true of 93% of homes in West Northamptonshire. In West Northamptonshire, 70% of rated care homes are Good or Outstanding (England 82%). None of the 5 nearest rated homes has a higher rating. 8 of Oakleaf Care (Hartwell) Limited’s 8 rated homes are Good or Outstanding (compare care home groups).
