SafeAre people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?72%Good
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Infection prevention and controlSome shortfalls
Involving people to manage risksGood
Learning cultureGood
Medicines optimisationGood
Safe and effective staffingGood
Safe environmentsGood
Safe systems, pathways and transitionsGood
SafeguardingGood
EffectiveDoes care achieve good outcomes and a good quality of life?71%Good
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Monitoring and improving outcomesSome shortfalls
Assessing needsGood
Consent to care and treatmentGood
Delivering evidence-based care and treatmentGood
How staff, teams and services work togetherGood
Supporting people to live healthier livesGood
CaringAre staff kind, compassionate and respectful?95%★Outstanding
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Workforce wellbeing and enablementGood
Independence, choice and controlExceptional
Kindness, compassion and dignityExceptional
Responding to people's immediate needsExceptional
Treating people as individualsExceptional
ResponsiveAre services organised to meet people's needs?82%Good
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Care provision, integration and continuityGood
Equity in accessGood
Equity in experiences and outcomesGood
Planning for the futureGood
Providing InformationGood
Listening to and involving peopleExceptional
Person-centred careExceptional
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: 25 good, 6 exceptional, 2 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 Old Vicarage is in the Good, with Outstanding areas tier ?, with 9 other homes in Nottinghamshire.
85% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).
The Old Vicarage is one of 274 care homes in Nottinghamshire: a 14-bed residential care home in Mansfield, run by Creative Care (East Midlands) Limited. Its CQC registration covers younger adults, people with a physical disability, people with a learning disability or autism, people with mental health needs and people with a sensory impairment. That is smaller than most homes in Nottinghamshire, where the typical home has 26 beds.
Creative Care (East Midlands) Limited runs 9 care homes, and 8 of the 9 rated are Good or Outstanding. Of the 5 closest rated homes, none is rated above it. Across Nottinghamshire, 85% of rated homes are Good or Outstanding, against 82% for England.
The current CQC rating is Good, published in September 2026. It was Good for safe, effective, responsive and well-led as well. For caring, the rating was Outstanding. That is up from Requires improvement in March 2021. That is more recent than most ratings in Nottinghamshire, where the typical rating is about 4 years old. Of the 33 standards CQC scored, 2 fell below good. The lowest was “monitoring and improving outcomes” (some shortfalls).
