Care home · Southsea
Bluebell Nursing Home
Illustrative photo, not of Bluebell Nursing Home- Address
- 45-53 St Ronan's Road, Southsea, PO4 0PP
- Run by
- Techscheme Limited
- Type of provider
- Independent (private company)
- Service
- Nursing home
- Beds
- 50 (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
- January 2011 (15 years)
- Part of
- Eleanor Healthcare Group
- Registered manager
- Serpil Mitchell
- Company check
- Active, trading since 2004 (22 years), accounts up to date (Companies House 05233989)
- Last CQC check
- 19 Jun 2026
- Typical fees Estimated
- £1,660–£2,030 a week for nursing care (dementia). Estimate only, from published local rates. How we estimate
CQC regulated activities: 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 1-113423944
Introducing Bluebell Nursing Home
Registered with CQC as a nursing home, Bluebell Nursing Home is based in Southsea, run by Techscheme Limited. It supports older people, with registered specialisms in dementia.
Its latest CQC rating is Good overall (June 2026). It is one of 25 CQC-registered care homes in and around Portsmouth; 19 of those are rated Good or Outstanding.
Around Southsea
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 Elizabeth House Care Home Adults, under 0.5 miles away.
2 of the 25 nearest rated care homes have a more recent rating than this one.
It sits in Eastney and Craneswater ward, classed by ONS as urban (nearer to a major town or city), among the 50% least deprived neighbourhoods in England. NHS services here are planned by NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB.
Within about a 10-minute walk there is a GP surgery (3 min), a pharmacy (4 min), a shop (3 min), a park (4 min), a café (3 min) and a bus stop (3 min), which matters for residents who can go out and for visiting family.
The registered provider
Bluebell Nursing Home is run by Techscheme Limited (company 05233989), incorporated in 2004, 6 years before this service registered with CQC.
At Companies House, the company is listed as active, its accounts are filed on time, it has 2 active directors and there is no insolvency history.
Its registered business activity is nursing care.
It trades under the Eleanor Healthcare Group brand, which covers 27 services run by 8 registered providers.
Likely fees
We estimate Bluebell Nursing Home 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.
If nursing care is needed, the NHS pays a weekly NHS-funded nursing care contribution directly to the home, whoever pays the rest.
Council help is possible below £23,250 in savings: ask Portsmouth Council for a free care needs assessment.
Each area CQC checks
- Safe69% score22 of 30 in Portsmouth
- Effective75% score23 of 30 in Portsmouth
- Caring75% score28 of 30 in Portsmouth
- Responsive75% score26 of 30 in Portsmouth
- Well-led75% score21 of 30 in Portsmouth
From CQC's latest report, published 19 June 2026. Under each rating: how many care homes in Portsmouth share it.
Bluebell Nursing Home over the years
Registered in January 2011, it has 15 years on the CQC register.
CQC has published 4 overall ratings for it (2015–2026), starting at Good and staying Good every time.
The CQC website holds 6 reports for it, the latest from 6 March 2020.
Who it can help
From the CQC register; ask how each need is met in practice.
Reading Bluebell Nursing Home's CQC ratings
Bluebell Nursing 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 20 of the 29 other care homes in Portsmouth that CQC has rated.
Under CQC's newer scoring, its strongest area is Caring at 75% and its lowest is Safe at 69%, averaging 74% overall.
Key points from CQC's visit
- People’s needs were assessed before and after they moved into the home.
- This was used as the basis for personalised care plans to ensure care supported people’s preferences and wellbeing.
- People had detailed individual care plans and risk assessments in place that guided staff to deliver safe care. Staff demonstrated an understanding of individual needs, respecting preferences, promoting independence, and engaging people in meaningful activities.
- Most people and their relatives gave positive feedback about living in the service.
Inspected 24 October 2019; report published 6 March 2020. In CQC's words, from its published findings (Open Government Licence). Read the full report.
Detailed scores
CQC's single assessment framework gives every quality statement a score out of 4, then reports each key question as a percentage. Averaged across the five areas, Bluebell Nursing Home scores 74%.
Safe 69%
- Learning culture3 · Good
- Safe systems, pathways and transitions3 · Good
- Safeguarding3 · Good
- Involving people to manage risks3 · Good
- Safe environments2 · Some shortfalls
- Safe and effective staffing3 · Good
- Infection prevention and control2 · Some shortfalls
- 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 75%
- 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 enablement3 · Good
Responsive 75%
- Person-centred Care3 · Good
- Care provision, Integration and continuity3 · Good
- 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
4 means exceptional and 1 means significant shortfalls (3 good, 2 some shortfalls). CQC data, assessed 19 May 2026, published 19 June 2026, Open Government Licence. Where no score shows, that statement wasn't part of this assessment and its earlier result still counts.
Ratings over time
- Feb 2015
- Apr 2017
- Mar 2020
- Jun 2026
- Today Rated in the last 12 months
CQC rating timeline for this address.
Reports on the CQC website
- CQC inspection report 6 March 2020
- CQC inspection report 19 April 2017
- CQC inspection report 17 February 2015
- Inspection report 6 December 2013
- Inspection report 23 April 2013
- Inspection report 16 February 2011
Food hygiene
The kitchen has a food hygiene rating of 5 (very good), from an inspection on 2 March 2026 by Portsmouth. On a visit, ask to see this week's menu and how residents choose what they eat.
From the Food Standards Agency (listed as "Bluebell Nursing Home"). Open Government Licence.
The neighbourhood
- Ward
- Eastney and Craneswater
- Council
- Portsmouth City Council · paying for care
- Parliamentary constituency
- Portsmouth South
- Local NHS (ICB)
- NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board
- ONS area type
- Urban (nearer to a major town or city)
- Neighbourhood deprivation
- Among the 50% least deprived areas in England
- Postcode district
- Care homes in PO4 (9)
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Close by
- Bus stop 250 m (3 min walk) · 30 stops within 600 m
- Railway station Fratton, 1.3 km (17 min walk)
- GP surgery 240 m (3 min walk)
- Pharmacy GoldChem Pharmacy, 290 m (4 min walk)
- Shop Sainsbury's Local, 230 m (3 min walk)
- Park Waverley Gardens, 280 m (4 min walk)
- Café The Cream Tearooms, 250 m (3 min walk)
- Place of worship Trinity Methodist Church, 270 m (3 min walk)
- Library Southsea LIbrary, 1.0 km (13 min walk)
From OpenStreetMap data (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL), measured in a straight line, so allow extra for the actual route on foot.
Area details from ONS and NHS postcode data via postcodes.io (Open Government Licence).
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Where Bluebell Nursing Home stands locally
- Rated Good. Across Portsmouth, 73% of the 30 rated care homes are Good or Outstanding and 0 are Outstanding.
- Its rating (June 2026) is more recent than 87% of care home ratings in Portsmouth.
- With 50 beds it is larger than 80% of care homes in Portsmouth, where the typical home has 30.
- Registered with CQC in 2011: it has been registered longer than 60% of care homes in the area.
- It lists 2 specialisms with CQC; the typical care home in Portsmouth lists 3.
Based on the CQC register for Portsmouth as at Oct 2026.
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Bluebell Nursing Home questions answered
- Which provider runs Bluebell Nursing Home?
- CQC lists Techscheme Limited as the provider responsible for Bluebell Nursing Home.
- How many residents can Bluebell Nursing Home take?
- CQC capacity for Bluebell Nursing Home: 50 beds. Ask about current availability and room facilities.
- How did Bluebell Nursing Home score on each CQC key question?
- By key question, CQC gave: Safe: Good; Effective: Good; Caring: Good; Responsive: Good; Well-led: Good. Safe and Well-led are the two to read first in the report.
- What are Bluebell Nursing Home's fees?
- Bluebell Nursing Home hasn't shared a price list with us. Residential care home typically costs £1,555 a week (average 2026 self-funder fees in South East). Ask for written prices covering weekends, bank holidays and any travel or set-up charges.
- What services is Bluebell Nursing Home registered for?
- Registration for Bluebell Nursing Home covers: nursing homes. Check which of these it offers today.
- Is Bluebell Nursing Home regulated by the Care Quality Commission?
- Yes. Bluebell Nursing Home is registered with the Care Quality Commission as a care home (location ID 1-113423944) and was rated Good overall in June 2026.
- Where is Bluebell Nursing Home based?
- It is at 45-53 St Ronan's Road, Southsea, PO4 0PP.
- When was Bluebell Nursing Home last inspected?
- The rating now shown was published on 19 June 2026. Ask what has changed since then, for example in management or staffing.
- Does Bluebell Nursing Home support people with dementia?
- Its registration includes dementia. Useful questions: how many staff hold dementia training, and how is a bad day handled?
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