Berkeley Lodge

What the ratings tell you

For Berkeley Lodge, Effective is rated Outstanding; 4 other areas are Good.

Across West Sussex, 3 of 317 rated care homes are Outstanding for Effective (1%).

The report's Effective section explains what earned the Outstanding rating, which is a useful benchmark when comparing services.

Choice nearby

Choice is wide here: the 25 nearest other care homes are all within 3 miles, 21 of them rated Good or Outstanding, and the closest is The Shelley Care Home, under 0.5 miles away.

It is registered for needs that fewer services nearby cover: dementia (7 of the nearest 25); physical disabilities (8 of the nearest 25); sight or hearing loss (5 of the nearest 25).

19 of the 24 nearest rated care homes have a more recent rating than this one.

It sits in Heene ward, classed by ONS as urban (nearer to a major town or city), among the 20% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. NHS services here are planned by NHS Surrey and Sussex ICB.

Within about a 10-minute walk there is a GP surgery (2 min), a pharmacy (6 min), a shop (3 min), a park (3 min), a café (3 min), a bus stop (2 min) and a railway station (10 min), which matters for residents who can go out and for visiting family.

Ownership and company checks

Berkeley Lodge is run by South Coast Nursing Homes Limited (company 01337123), incorporated in 1977, 33 years before this service registered with CQC.

At Companies House, the company is listed as active, its accounts are filed on time, it has 3 active directors and there is no insolvency history.

Its registered business activity is nursing care.

South Coast Nursing Homes Limited runs 9 CQC-registered services across 2 council areas; 9 of the 9 with a rating are Good or Outstanding (100%), against 83% for the same mix of services across England.

7 of its services are in West Sussex.

Costs to expect

We estimate Berkeley Lodge at £1,660–£2,030 a week for nursing care (dementia), based on published prices in the region. Over a year that is roughly £86k–£106k.

Part of a nursing fee may be met by the NHS (NHS-funded nursing care), paid to the home rather than to you.

If savings are under the upper limit (£23,250 in England), West Sussex Council may pay part of the cost after a free care needs assessment.

Track record

Registered in January 2011, it has 15 years on the CQC register.

CQC has published 3 overall ratings for it (2017–2022), starting at Good; it has gone up 0 and down 0 times, and is now Inspected but not rated.

It has gone 6 years without a new overall rating. CQC schedules inspections by risk, so this is not a bad sign in itself, though leadership may have moved on.

There are 6 CQC reports on file for this address; the newest is from 10 February 2022.