OSJCT Westgate House

Track record

CQC registration dates from November 2010, so the service has been operating for around 15 years under its current registration.

CQC has published 3 overall ratings for it (2015–2019), starting at Good and staying Good every time.

At 6 years old, the rating may not reflect the current team. CQC prioritises higher-risk services, so ask about recent changes rather than assuming the worst.

Reports on record: 5, with the most recent dated 27 November 2019.

Costs to expect

We estimate OSJCT Westgate House 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.

Where a resident needs nursing, the NHS pays part of the fee straight to the home as NHS-funded nursing care, regardless of who pays the rest.

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

Reading OSJCT Westgate House's CQC ratings

For OSJCT Westgate House, Effective is rated Outstanding; 4 other areas are Good.

Across Oxfordshire, 5 of 119 rated care homes are Outstanding for Effective (4%).

Outstanding ratings for a single area are uncommon; the Effective section of the report gives examples of what inspectors saw.

Choice nearby

There are 4 other care homes within 3 miles, 2 of them rated Good or Outstanding; the nearest is Waterside Court Care Home, 1.0 miles away.

11 of the 16 nearest rated care homes have a more recent rating than this one.

It sits in Wallingford ward, classed by ONS as larger rural (nearer to a major town or city), among the 40% least deprived neighbourhoods in England. NHS services here are planned by NHS Thames Valley ICB.

Within about a 10-minute walk there is a pharmacy (8 min), a shop (2 min), a park (5 min), a café (7 min), a bus stop (1 min) and a railway station (8 min), which matters for residents who can go out and for visiting family.

The registered provider

OSJCT Westgate House is run by The Orders Of St. John Care Trust (company 03073089), incorporated in 1995, 15 years before this service registered with CQC.

At Companies House, the company is listed as active, its accounts are filed on time, it has 12 active directors and there is no insolvency history.

Its registered business activity is nursing care and residential care for older and disabled people.

The Orders Of St. John Care Trust runs 55 CQC-registered services across 7 council areas; 51 of the 54 with a rating are Good or Outstanding (94%), against 84% for the same mix of services across England.

23 of its services are in Oxfordshire.

It trades under the Orders of St John Care Trust brand, which covers 58 services run by 3 registered providers.