Aashna House Residential Care Home

How it fits locally

Choice is wide here: the 25 nearest other care homes are all within 3 miles, 20 of them rated Good or Outstanding, and the closest is Anvil Close, under 0.5 miles away.

It is registered for needs that fewer services nearby cover: dementia (5 of the nearest 25); physical disabilities (2 of the nearest 25).

11 of the 25 nearest rated care homes have a more recent rating than this one.

It sits in Streatham Common & Vale ward, classed by ONS as urban (nearer to a major town or city), among the 30% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. NHS services here are planned by NHS South East London ICB.

Within about a 10-minute walk there is a GP surgery (5 min), a pharmacy (5 min), a shop (4 min), a park (2 min), a café (5 min), a bus stop (3 min) and a railway station (5 min), which matters for residents who can go out and for visiting family.

Budgeting for this home

We estimate Aashna House Residential Care Home at £1,500–£1,830 a week for residential care (dementia), based on published prices in the region. Over a year that is roughly £78k–£95k.

Ask how often fees rise and whether they go up if care needs increase.

With savings below £23,250, Lambeth Council may contribute once it has carried out a free needs assessment.

History with CQC

CQC registration dates from June 2012, so the service has been operating for around 14 years under its current registration.

CQC has published 4 overall ratings for it (2017–2022), starting at Good and staying Good every time.

No new overall rating has been published for 4 years. CQC re-inspects based on risk, so an old rating is not a bad sign in itself, but staff and management may have changed.

CQC lists 6 reports for this location, the latest dated 14 October 2022.

The company behind Aashna House Residential Care Home

Aashna House Residential Care Home is run by Sanctuary Care Limited (company 04231521), incorporated in 2001, 11 years before this service registered with CQC.

At Companies House, the company is listed as active, its accounts are filed on time, it has 6 active directors and there is no insolvency history.

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

Sanctuary Care Limited runs 83 CQC-registered services across 40 council areas; 78 of the 82 with a rating are Good or Outstanding (95%), against 83% for the same mix of services across England.

It trades under the Sanctuary Care Limited brand, which covers 113 services run by 3 registered providers.

The ratings in context

Aashna House Residential Care Home has an even profile: Safe, Effective, Caring, Responsive and Well-led are each rated Good.

For leadership (Well-led), it shares its Good rating with 23 of the 32 other care homes in Lambeth that CQC has rated.