Oaklands Care Home

The ratings in context

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 158 of the 219 other care homes in Derbyshire that CQC has rated.

Track record

Registered in September 2016, it has 10 years on the CQC register.

CQC has published 3 overall ratings for it (2017–2022), starting at Good; it has gone up 0 and down 0 times, and is now Inspected but not rated.

It has gone 9 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.

CQC lists 3 reports for this location, the latest dated 16 March 2022.

Costs to expect

We estimate Oaklands Care Home at £1,390–£1,690 a week for nursing care (dementia), based on published prices in the region. Over a year that is roughly £72k–£88k.

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.

Derbyshire Council can help with costs for people with savings under £23,250, starting with a free assessment.

The company behind Oaklands Care Home

Oaklands Care Home is run by Knightingale Care Limited (company 03845011), incorporated in 1999, 17 years before this service registered with CQC.

At Companies House, the company is listed as active, its accounts are filed on time, it has 3 active directors and there is no insolvency history.

Its registered business activity is nursing care.

Knightingale Care Limited runs 6 CQC-registered services across 4 council areas; 6 of the 6 with a rating are Good or Outstanding (100%), against 83% for the same mix of services across England.

2 of its services are in Derbyshire.

Choice nearby

There are 8 other care homes within 3 miles, 7 of them rated Good or Outstanding; the nearest is Malborn Teroan House, under 0.5 miles away.

It is registered for needs that fewer services nearby cover: sight or hearing loss (7 of the nearest 25).

Every one of the 24 nearest rated care homes has a more recent rating than this one, so ask what has changed since its inspection.

It sits in Langwith ward, classed by ONS as larger rural (nearer to a major town or city), among the 20% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. NHS services here are planned by NHS Derby and Derbyshire ICB.

Within about a 10-minute walk there is a GP surgery (3 min), a pharmacy (10 min), a shop (10 min), a park (9 min), a bus stop (1 min) and a railway station (3 min), which matters for residents who can go out and for visiting family.