SafeAre people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?63%Good
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Involving people to manage risksSome shortfalls
Learning cultureSome shortfalls
Medicines optimisationSome shortfalls
Safe and effective staffingSome shortfalls
Infection prevention and controlGood
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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Consent to care and treatmentSome shortfalls
Assessing needsGood
Delivering evidence-based care and treatmentGood
How staff, teams and services work togetherGood
Monitoring and improving outcomesGood
Supporting people to live healthier livesGood
CaringAre staff kind, compassionate and respectful?75%Good
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Independence, choice and controlGood
Kindness, compassion and dignityGood
Responding to people's immediate needsGood
Treating people as individualsGood
Workforce wellbeing and enablementGood
ResponsiveAre services organised to meet people's needs?75%Good
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Care provision, integration and continuityGood
Equity in accessGood
Equity in experiences and outcomesGood
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?61%Requires improvement
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Capable, compassionate and inclusive leadersSome shortfalls
Governance, management and sustainabilitySome shortfalls
Learning, improvement and innovationSome shortfalls
Shared direction and cultureSome shortfalls
Freedom to speak upGood
Partnerships and communitiesGood
Workforce equality, diversity and inclusionGood
Percentages are CQC scores from its newer way of assessing homes. ?
CQC scored 33 standards: 24 good, 9 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. ?
Wisteria House Residential Home - Rutland is in the Good, with an area to improve tier ?, with 2 other homes in Rutland.
82% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).
Wisteria House Residential Home - Rutland in brief
Wisteria House Residential Home - Rutland is one of 11 care homes in Rutland: a 16-bed residential care home in Oakham, run by Mr & Mrs G Kirk. Its CQC registration covers older people. It is a small home for Rutland, where the median is 34 beds.
Of the 6 closest rated homes, none is rated above it. 2 other homes in Rutland share its tier, “Good, with an area to improve”. The kitchen has a food hygiene rating of 5 (very good), from November 2025. 100% of homes in Rutland also score 5.
CQC's latest rating, from April 2026, is Good overall. It was Good for safe, effective, caring and responsive as well. Well-led was rated Requires improvement. It was also rated Good at the inspection before, in June 2019. That is more recent than most ratings in Rutland, where the typical rating is about 2 years old. 9 of its 33 scored standards were below good, including “consent to care and treatment”.
