Oaklands Care Home

Strengths and weak spots in the ratings

All five areas CQC looks at are rated Good for Oaklands Care Home: no single area stands out above or below the rest.

For leadership (Well-led), it shares its Good rating with 72 of the 88 other care homes in North Somerset that CQC has rated.

How it fits locally

Choice is wide here: the 25 nearest other care homes are all within 3 miles, 23 of them rated Good or Outstanding, and the closest is Sunnydale Care Home, under 0.5 miles away.

15 of the 24 nearest rated care homes have a more recent rating than this one.

It sits in Weston-super-Mare Central ward, classed by ONS as urban (nearer to a major town or city), among the 20% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. NHS services here are planned by NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire ICB.

Within about a 10-minute walk there is a GP surgery (8 min), a pharmacy (6 min), a shop (1 min), a park (3 min), a café (3 min), a bus stop (1 min) and a railway station (10 min), which matters for residents who can go out and for visiting family.

Who runs it

Oaklands Care Home is run by Friend4friend Limited (company 06917915), incorporated in 2009, 1 year 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 care for people with learning disabilities, mental health problems or substance misuse.

Friend4Friend Limited runs 3 CQC-registered services; 3 of the 3 with a rating are Good or Outstanding (100%), against 83% for the same mix of services across England.

All 3 are in North Somerset, so it is a local operator rather than a national chain.

Budgeting for this home

We estimate Oaklands Care Home at £1,520–£1,860 a week for nursing care, based on published prices in the region. Over a year that is roughly £79k–£97k.

For residents assessed as needing nursing, a weekly NHS contribution goes straight to the home towards the fee, whoever pays the rest.

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

History with CQC

Oaklands Care Home has been registered with CQC since January 2011, about 15 years.

CQC has published 3 overall ratings for it (2015–2020), starting at Good and staying Good every time.

It has gone 6 years without a new overall rating. CQC schedules inspections by risk, so this is not a bad sign in itself, though leadership may have moved on.

5 reports have been published for this location, most recently on 22 February 2020.