SafeAre people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?59%Requires improvement
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Medicines optimisationSignificant shortfalls
Involving people to manage risksSome shortfalls
Learning cultureSome 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?70%Good
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Workforce wellbeing and enablementSome shortfalls
Independence, choice and controlGood
Kindness, compassion and dignityGood
Responding to people's immediate needsGood
Treating people as individualsGood
ResponsiveAre services organised to meet people's needs?68%Good
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Care provision, integration and continuitySome shortfalls
Person-centred careSome shortfalls
Equity in accessGood
Equity in experiences and outcomesGood
Listening to and involving peopleGood
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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Governance, management and sustainabilitySignificant shortfalls
Capable, compassionate and inclusive leadersSome shortfalls
Learning, improvement and innovationSome shortfalls
Freedom to speak upGood
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. ?
Withins (Breightmet) Limited is in the Requires improvement tier ?, with 8 other homes in Bolton.
84% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).
Withins (Breightmet) Limited is a 65-bed residential care home in Bolton. The home is its own registered provider. CQC registers it to look after older people, people with a physical disability and people with mental health needs. That is larger than most homes in Bolton, where the typical home has 28 beds.
The current CQC rating is Requires improvement, published in March 2026. Safe and well-led were also Requires improvement. CQC rated effective, caring and responsive as Good. Its rating before that, in June 2023, was the same. That is more recent than most ratings in Bolton, where the typical rating is about 3 years old. 11 of its 33 scored standards were below good, including “medicines optimisation”.
The kitchen has a food hygiene rating of 5 (very good), from November 2025. That is true of 84% of homes in Bolton. Across Bolton, 84% of rated homes are Good or Outstanding, against 82% for England. The nearest home with a higher rating is Southlands Residential Home Limited (Good), 0.0 km away.
