Care home · St. Albans
Alban Manor Nursing Home
Illustrative photo, not of Alban Manor Nursing Home- Address
- 1-2 Chene Drive, Waverley Road, St. Albans, AL3 5QP
- Run by
- St. Albans Care Limited
- Type of provider
- Independent (private company)
- Service
- Nursing home
- Beds
- 80 (registered with CQC)
- Nursing care
- Yes, registered as a nursing home (CQC registration)
- Dementia
- Registered with CQC to support people living with dementia
- Registered with CQC
- May 2019 (7 years)
- Registered manager
- Carmen Abaza
- Company check
- Active, trading since 2018 (7 years), accounts up to date (Companies House 11686501)
- Last CQC check
- 9 Dec 2024
- Typical fees Estimated
- £1,520–£1,850 a week for nursing care (dementia). Estimate only, from published local rates. How we estimate
Licensed by CQC for: Accommodation for persons who require nursing or personal care · Treatment of disease, disorder or injury
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See this service on the CQC website · CQC location ID 1-6820595785
An overview of Alban Manor Nursing Home
Registered with CQC as a nursing home, Alban Manor Nursing Home is based in St. Albans, run by St. Albans Care Limited. It supports adults of all ages, with registered specialisms in dementia and physical disabilities.
Its latest CQC rating is Good overall (December 2024). It is one of 15 CQC-registered care homes in and around St Albans; 12 of those are rated Good or Outstanding.
Ratings for safety, care and leadership
- Safe75% score160 of 219 in Hertfordshire
- Effective75% score193 of 218 in Hertfordshire
- Caring70% score194 of 218 in Hertfordshire
- Responsive71% score182 of 217 in Hertfordshire
- Well-led75% score148 of 219 in Hertfordshire
CQC key question ratings, published 9 December 2024. Under each rating: how many care homes in Hertfordshire share it.
The ratings in context
All five areas CQC looks at are rated Good for Alban Manor Nursing Home: no single area stands out above or below the rest.
For leadership (Well-led), it shares its Good rating with 147 of the 218 other care homes in Hertfordshire that CQC has rated.
Under CQC's newer scoring, its strongest area is Effective at 75% and its lowest is Caring at 70%, averaging 73% overall.
What CQC's inspectors reported
- At the time of this assessment, there were 56 people using the service.
- At our last inspection, we identified breaches in relation to good governance and told the provider they needed to improve safe care and staff training.
- We visited the service on 15 October 2024, received feedback from 16 people or their relatives, spoke with five staff members and 3 visiting professionals and ended the assessment when we met with the management team on 23 October 2024.
- People and relatives told us they felt safe living in Alban Manor and said they were able to raise concerns to staff if they did not.
Inspected 16 July 2021; report published 17 September 2021; supporting 56 people at the time. Quoted from the CQC report summary, Open Government Licence. Read the full report.
How long it has been running
Alban Manor Nursing Home has been registered with CQC since May 2019, about 7 years.
CQC has published 2 overall ratings for it (2021–2024), starting at Requires improvement and improving to Good.
CQC's scores in detail
Under its newer approach, CQC marks each "quality statement" from 1 to 4 and converts the marks into a percentage per area. Averaged across the five areas, Alban Manor Nursing Home scores 73%.
Safe 75%
- Learning culture3 · Good
- Safe systems, pathways and transitions3 · Good
- Safeguarding3 · Good
- Involving people to manage risks3 · Good
- Safe environments3 · Good
- Safe and effective staffing3 · Good
- Infection prevention and control3 · Good
- Medicines optimisation3 · Good
Effective 75%
- Assessing needs3 · Good
- Delivering evidence-based care and treatment3 · Good
- How staff, teams and services work together3 · Good
- Supporting people to live healthier lives3 · Good
- Monitoring and improving outcomes3 · Good
- Consent to care and treatment3 · Good
Caring 70%
- Kindness, compassion and dignity3 · Good
- Treating people as individuals3 · Good
- Independence, choice and control3 · Good
- Responding to people’s immediate needs3 · Good
- Workforce wellbeing and enablement2 · Some shortfalls
Responsive 71%
- Person-centred Care3 · Good
- Care provision, Integration and continuity2 · Some shortfalls
- Providing Information3 · Good
- Listening to and involving people3 · Good
- Equity in access3 · Good
- Equity in experiences and outcomes3 · Good
- Planning for the future3 · Good
Well-led 75%
- Shared direction and culture3 · Good
- Capable, compassionate and inclusive leaders3 · Good
- Freedom to speak up3 · Good
- Workforce equality, diversity and inclusion3 · Good
- Governance, management and sustainability3 · Good
- Partnerships and communities3 · Good
- Learning, improvement and innovation3 · Good
Scores: 4 exceptional, 3 good, 2 some shortfalls, 1 significant shortfalls. From CQC's assessment, assessed 10 May 2024, published 9 December 2024 (Open Government Licence). A statement with no score was not looked at in this assessment; its earlier result still counts.
Rating history
- Sep 2021
- Dec 2024
- Today Rating 1 year old
Overall ratings CQC has published for this location, oldest first. The latest rating is an improvement on the one before.
Reports on the CQC website
- CQC inspection report 17 September 2021
Food hygiene
The kitchen has a food hygiene rating of 5 (very good), from an inspection on 12 March 2026 by St Albans City. Meals matter in a care home: ask to see a menu and whether residents can choose.
From the Food Standards Agency (listed as "Alban Manor Nursing Home"). Open Government Licence.
Finding it
- Ward
- Batchwood
- Parliamentary constituency
- St Albans
- Integrated care board
- NHS Central East Integrated Care Board
- Setting
- Urban · nearer to a major town or city
- Neighbourhood deprivation
- Among the 20% least deprived areas in England
- Postcode district
- Care homes in AL3 (5)
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Around the building
- Bus stop 200 m (2 min walk) · 11 stops within 600 m
- Railway station St Albans City, 1.5 km (18 min walk)
- GP surgery The Lodge Surgery, 210 m (3 min walk)
- Pharmacy Normandy Pharmacy, 150 m (2 min walk)
- Shop Waverley Road Convenience Store, 150 m (2 min walk)
- Park 330 m (4 min walk)
- Café HiTea, 660 m (8 min walk)
- Place of worship 7th Day Adventist Church, 570 m (7 min walk)
- Library St. Albans Main Library, 1.2 km (15 min walk)
Straight-line distances to the nearest of each, from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL). Walking routes are longer; check for hills and crossings if you plan to take a relative out.
Ward, NHS area and deprivation from ONS and NHS postcode data (postcodes.io, Open Government Licence).
The company behind Alban Manor Nursing Home
Alban Manor Nursing Home is run by St Albans Care Limited (company 11686501), incorporated in 2018.
At Companies House, the company is listed as active, its accounts are filed on time, it has 4 active directors and there is no insolvency history.
Its registered business activity is nursing care.
What it may cost
We estimate Alban Manor Nursing Home at £1,520–£1,850 a week for nursing care (dementia), based on published prices in the region. Over a year that is roughly £79k–£96k.
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.
People with savings under £23,250 may get help from Hertfordshire Council after a needs and financial assessment.
Needs it is registered to meet
Registration details from CQC.
The local picture
There are 21 other care homes within 3 miles, 17 of them rated Good or Outstanding; the nearest is Verulam House Nursing Home, 0.5 miles away.
2 of the 20 nearest rated care homes have a more recent rating than this one.
It sits in Batchwood ward, classed by ONS as urban (nearer to a major town or city), among the 20% least deprived neighbourhoods in England. NHS services here are planned by NHS Central East ICB.
Within about a 10-minute walk there is a GP surgery (3 min), a pharmacy (2 min), a shop (2 min), a park (4 min), a café (8 min) and a bus stop (2 min), which matters for residents who can go out and for visiting family.
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How Alban Manor Nursing Home compares
- Rated Good. Across Hertfordshire, 76% of the 219 rated care homes are Good or Outstanding and 9 are Outstanding.
- Its rating (December 2024) is more recent than 82% of care home ratings in Hertfordshire.
- With 80 beds it is larger than 89% of care homes in Hertfordshire, where the typical home has 32.
- Registered with CQC in 2019: it has been registered longer than 31% of care homes in the area.
- It lists 4 specialisms with CQC; the typical care home in Hertfordshire lists 3.
Based on the CQC register for Hertfordshire as at Oct 2026.
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Alban Manor Nursing Home: common questions
- How much does Alban Manor Nursing Home charge?
- Alban Manor Nursing Home's prices aren't on our site yet. Residential care home typically costs £1,455 a week (average 2026 self-funder fees in East of England). Ask for written prices covering weekends, bank holidays and any travel or set-up charges.
- How did Alban Manor Nursing Home score on each CQC key question?
- The five CQC areas: Safe: Good; Effective: Good; Caring: Good; Responsive: Good; Well-led: Good. Safe and Well-led are the two to read first in the report.
- How big is Alban Manor Nursing Home?
- CQC registers Alban Manor Nursing Home for 80 residents; ask about vacancies, room sizes and en-suite bathrooms.
- Who is the registered provider for Alban Manor Nursing Home?
- Alban Manor Nursing Home is run by St. Albans Care Limited, the registered provider on the CQC register.
- Can Alban Manor Nursing Home care for someone with dementia?
- Yes. Dementia is one of the specialisms on its CQC registration. Ask how many carers or staff have dementia training.
- When was Alban Manor Nursing Home last inspected?
- The latest rating is dated 9 December 2024, 1 year ago; ask whether there have been changes since.
- What services is Alban Manor Nursing Home registered for?
- Registration for Alban Manor Nursing Home covers: nursing homes. Check which of these it offers today.
- What is Alban Manor Nursing Home's address?
- It is at 1-2 Chene Drive, Waverley Road, St. Albans, AL3 5QP.
- Is Alban Manor Nursing Home registered with CQC?
- It is. The CQC register records Alban Manor Nursing Home as a care home, location ID 1-6820595785 and was rated Good overall in December 2024.
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