Home care agency · Blackpool
Baxter Life Care Limited
Typical fee here £30–£37 an hour Estimate
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- 26 Derby Road, Blackpool, FY1 2JF
- Run by
- Baxter Life Care Limited
- Type of provider
- Independent (private company)
- Service
- Home care agency
- Dementia
- Registered with CQC to support people living with dementia
- Registered with CQC
- May 2018 (8 years)
- Registered manager
- Dean Stephen Baxter
- Company check
- Active, trading since 2014 (12 years), accounts up to date (Companies House 08851261)
- Last CQC check
- 6 Oct 2023
- Typical fees Estimated
- £30–£37 an hour for visiting care, weekdays; live-in £1,450–£1,770 a week. Estimate only, from published local rates. How we estimate
Registered to provide: Personal care
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See this service on the CQC website · CQC location ID 1-5143668966
The service in brief
Registered with CQC as a home care agency, Baxter Life Care Limited is based in Blackpool. Its registered specialisms include dementia, physical disabilities, learning disabilities, mental health conditions, sight or hearing loss, drug or alcohol problems and eating disorders.
Its latest CQC rating is Requires improvement overall (October 2023). Safe and Well-led were rated Requires improvement. It is one of 62 CQC-registered home care agencies that have an office within 7 miles of Blackpool; 44 of those are rated Good or Outstanding.
Strengths and weak spots in the ratings
Looking at the five areas: Safe and Well-led are rated below Good; 3 other areas are Good.
Across Blackpool, 1 of 18 rated agencies are Requires improvement for Safe (6%), while 1 of 18 rated agencies are Requires improvement for Well-led (6%).
If you are considering it, read the Safe and Well-led section of the report first and ask what has changed since the inspection.
Ratings for safety, care and leadership
- Safe1 of 18 in Blackpool
- Effective18 of 18 in Blackpool
- Caring15 of 18 in Blackpool
- Responsive17 of 18 in Blackpool
- Well-led1 of 18 in Blackpool
CQC key question ratings, published 6 October 2023. Under each rating: how many agencies in Blackpool share it.
Ratings over time
- Dec 2018
- Sep 2021
- Oct 2023
- Today Rating 3 years old
CQC rating timeline for this address.
CQC documents
- CQC inspection report 6 October 2023
- CQC inspection report 14 September 2021
- CQC inspection report 19 December 2018
Map and area details
- Ward
- Claremont
- Council
- Blackpool Council · paying for care
- Parliamentary constituency
- Blackpool South
- Local NHS (ICB)
- NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board
- Setting
- Urban; nearer to a major town or city
- Neighbourhood deprivation
- Among the 10% most deprived areas in England
- Postcode district
- Home care in FY1 (8)
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Ward, NHS area and deprivation from ONS and NHS postcode data (postcodes.io, Open Government Licence). A home care agency's office address; carers travel to people's homes nearby.
Track record
CQC registration dates from May 2018, so the service has been operating for around 8 years under its current registration.
CQC has published 3 overall ratings for it (2018–2023), starting at Good and falling to Requires improvement.
3 years have passed since the last overall rating. Services judged lower-risk wait longer for a visit, but teams change, so check what is different today.
CQC lists 3 reports for this location, the latest dated 6 October 2023.
Needs it is registered to meet
Taken from its CQC registration.
Costs to expect
We estimate visits from Baxter Life Care Limited at £30–£37 an hour (visiting care, weekdays), based on published prices in the region. As an example, an hour each morning and a 30-minute evening call comes to about £350 a week.
Live-in care in this region typically runs £1,450–£1,770 a week.
With savings below £23,250, Blackpool Council may contribute once it has carried out a free needs assessment.
What CQC's inspectors reported
- Where risks to people were identified recorded documentation to lessen the risk was, at times, conflicting.
- We found concerns with medicine records and the management of people's medicines.
- We found there was not a structured, systematic, effective approach to assess and monitor the service to identify shortfalls and drive improvements.
- The provider followed safe systems for staff recruitment.
Inspected 26 June 2023; report published 6 October 2023. Taken from CQC's own findings (Open Government Licence). Read the full report.
Choice nearby
There are 21 other agencies within 3 miles, 13 of them rated Good or Outstanding; the nearest is Lastminute Care & Nursing - Lancashire, under 0.5 miles away.
2 of the 16 nearest rated agencies have a more recent rating than this one.
It sits in Claremont ward, classed by ONS as urban (nearer to a major town or city), among the 10% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. NHS services here are planned by NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB.
Who runs it
Baxter Life Care Limited is run by Baxter Life Care Limited (company 08851261), incorporated in 2014, 4 years before this service registered with CQC.
At Companies House, the company is listed as active, its accounts are filed on time, it has 1 active director and there is no insolvency history.
Its registered business activity is other residential care.
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How Baxter Life Care Limited compares
- Rated Requires improvement. Across Blackpool, 94% of the 18 rated home care agencies are Good or Outstanding and 1 is Outstanding.
- Its rating (October 2023) is more recent than 72% of agency ratings in Blackpool.
- Registered with CQC in 2018: it has been registered longer than 68% of home care agencies in the area.
- It lists 8 specialisms with CQC; the typical agency in Blackpool lists 6.
- Areas CQC rated below Good: Safe (6% of home care agencies in Blackpool are also rated below Good here); Well-led (6% of home care agencies in Blackpool are also rated below Good here). Ask the provider what has changed since.
Comparison set: every registered home care agency in Blackpool, CQC data for Oct 2026.
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Frequently asked about Baxter Life Care Limited
- What are Baxter Life Care Limited's fees?
- Baxter Life Care Limited has not published its fees with us. Visiting care typically costs around £32–£34 an hour (typical 2026 prices across England). Ask for a written quote that includes weekend and bank holiday rates.
- What kind of care can Baxter Life Care Limited offer?
- Its CQC registration covers homecare agencies. Ask Baxter Life Care Limited how it would adapt if needs increase.
- What is Baxter Life Care Limited's address?
- 26 Derby Road, Blackpool, FY1 2JF. That is the office; visits happen in your own home, so confirm your area is covered.
- Is Baxter Life Care Limited registered for dementia care?
- Its registration includes dementia. Useful questions: how many staff hold dementia training, and how is a bad day handled?
- How did Baxter Life Care Limited score on each CQC key question?
- The five CQC areas: Safe: Requires improvement; Effective: Good; Caring: Good; Responsive: Good; Well-led: Requires improvement. Safe and Well-led are the sections most worth your time.
- When was Baxter Life Care Limited last inspected?
- The latest rating is dated 6 October 2023, 3 years ago; ask whether there have been changes since.
- Is Baxter Life Care Limited a registered provider?
- Baxter Life Care Limited is on the CQC register as a home care agency (ID 1-5143668966) and was rated Requires improvement overall in October 2023.
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