SafeAre people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?56%Requires improvement
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Involving people to manage risksSignificant shortfalls
Infection prevention and controlSome shortfalls
Safe and effective staffingSome shortfalls
Safe environmentsSome shortfalls
SafeguardingSome shortfalls
Learning cultureGood
Medicines optimisationGood
Safe systems, pathways and transitionsGood
EffectiveDoes care achieve good outcomes and a good quality of life?0%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?55%Requires improvement
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Independence, choice and controlSome shortfalls
Kindness, compassion and dignitySome shortfalls
Responding to people's immediate needsSome shortfalls
Workforce wellbeing and enablementSome shortfalls
Treating people as individualsGood
ResponsiveAre services organised to meet people's needs?61%Requires improvement
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Equity in accessSome shortfalls
Equity in experiences and outcomesSome shortfalls
Person-centred careSome shortfalls
Providing InformationSome shortfalls
Care provision, integration and continuityGood
Listening to and involving peopleGood
Planning for the futureGood
Well-ledIs the home well managed, with a culture of high-quality care?54%Requires improvement
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Capable, compassionate and inclusive leadersSome shortfalls
Freedom to speak upSome shortfalls
Governance, management and sustainabilitySome shortfalls
Learning, improvement and innovationSome shortfalls
Shared direction and cultureSome shortfalls
Workforce equality, diversity and inclusionSome shortfalls
Partnerships and communitiesGood
Percentages are CQC scores from its newer way of assessing homes. ?
CQC scored 33 standards: 11 good, 22 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. ?
CQC's register shows no registered manager for this home. Every care home must have one. The home may be recruiting, or a new manager may be applying to CQC. ?
The Laurels and The Limes Care Home is in the Requires improvement tier ?, with 14 other homes in Sheffield.
85% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).
The Laurels and The Limes Care Home is one of 114 care homes in Sheffield: a 88-bed nursing home in Sheffield, run by Hill Care Limited. CQC registers it to look after older people, people with dementia and younger adults. Most homes in Sheffield are smaller: the median there is 34 beds.
The kitchen has a food hygiene rating of 5 (very good), from May 2025. 82% of homes in Sheffield also score 5. 14 other homes in Sheffield share its tier, “Requires improvement”. There is no registered manager on CQC's register right now. The nearest home with a higher rating is The Porterbrook (Good), 0.2 km away. Hill Care Limited runs 5 care homes, and 3 of the 5 rated are Good or Outstanding.
The current CQC rating is Requires improvement, published in July 2026. It was Requires improvement for safe, caring, responsive and well-led as well. CQC rated effective as Good. Its rating before that, in January 2023, was the same. The typical rating in Sheffield is about 3 years old, so this one is fairly recent. Of the 33 standards CQC scored, 22 fell below good. The lowest was “involving people to manage risks” (significant shortfalls).
