Care home · Didcot
OSJCT The Meadows
Typical fee here £1,660–£2,030 a week Estimate
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Illustrative photo, not of OSJCT The Meadows- Address
- Britwell Road, Didcot, OX11 7JN
- Run by
- The Orders Of St. John Care Trust (55 services)
- Type of provider
- Charity (registered charity 1048355)
- Service
- Nursing home
- Beds
- 68 (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
- November 2010 (15 years)
- Part of
- Orders of St John Care Trust
- Registered manager
- Swapna Nandanan
- Company check
- Active, trading since 1995 (31 years), accounts up to date (Companies House 03073089)
- Last CQC check
- 25 Mar 2024
- Typical fees Estimated
- £1,660–£2,030 a week for nursing care (dementia). Our estimate from published local prices, not a quote. 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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CQC page for this service · CQC location ID 1-122152810
An overview of OSJCT The Meadows
OSJCT The Meadows is a CQC-registered nursing home in Didcot, run by The Orders Of St. John Care Trust. Its CQC registration covers older people, including people living with dementia.
At its most recent rating, CQC judged it Good overall (March 2024). It is one of 6 CQC-registered care homes in and around Didcot; 5 of those are rated Good or Outstanding.
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, OSJCT The Meadows scores 75%.
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 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
Scale: 1 (significant shortfalls) to 4 (exceptional). From CQC, assessed 3 January 2024, published 25 March 2024, Open Government Licence. Statements without a score were not reassessed and their earlier result stands.
Earlier inspections
- Feb 2015
- Jun 2015
- Jun 2016
- Mar 2019
- Mar 2024
- Today Rating 2 years old
Overall ratings CQC has published for this location, oldest first.
CQC reports
- CQC inspection report 12 March 2019
- CQC inspection report 28 June 2016
- CQC inspection report 2 June 2015
- CQC inspection report 16 February 2015
- Inspection report 30 May 2014
- Inspection report 13 August 2013
Kitchen hygiene rating
The kitchen has a food hygiene rating of 5 (very good), from an inspection on 17 June 2026 by South Oxfordshire. Food is a big part of daily life in a home, so ask about menus, choice and mealtimes.
From the Food Standards Agency (listed as "The Meadows"). Open Government Licence.
The neighbourhood
- Ward
- Didcot West
- Parliamentary constituency
- Didcot and Wantage
- NHS planning area
- NHS Thames Valley Integrated Care Board
- Setting
- Urban · nearer to a major town or city
- Neighbourhood deprivation
- Among the 10% least deprived areas in England
- Postcode district
- Care homes in OX11 (6)
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Nearby
- Bus stop 240 m (3 min walk) · 20 stops within 600 m
- Railway station Didcot Parkway, 570 m (7 min walk)
- GP surgery Didcot Health Centre, 220 m (3 min walk)
- Pharmacy Superdrug, 760 m (9 min walk)
- Shop Co-op Food, 410 m (5 min walk)
- Park Smallbones Recreation Ground, 80 m (1 min walk)
- Café 530 m (7 min walk)
- Place of worship Foxhall Gospel Hall (Plymouth Brethren Christian Church), 210 m (3 min walk)
- Library Didcot Libary, 290 m (4 min walk)
Distances are as the crow flies, from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); real walking routes will be longer and may include hills or busy roads.
Ward and NHS boundaries from official postcode data, Open Government Licence.
The registered provider
OSJCT The Meadows is run by The Orders Of St. John Care Trust (company 03073089), incorporated in 1995, 15 years before this service registered with CQC.
At Companies House, the company is listed as active, its accounts are filed on time, it has 12 active directors and there is no insolvency history.
Its registered business activity is nursing care and residential care for older and disabled people.
The Orders Of St. John Care Trust runs 55 CQC-registered services across 7 council areas; 51 of the 54 with a rating are Good or Outstanding (94%), against 84% for the same mix of services across England.
23 of its services are in Oxfordshire.
It trades under the Orders of St John Care Trust brand, which covers 58 services run by 3 registered providers.
Around Didcot
There are 5 other care homes within 3 miles, 4 of them rated Good or Outstanding; the nearest is Woodview, 0.6 miles away.
5 of the 21 nearest rated care homes have a more recent rating than this one.
It sits in Didcot West ward, classed by ONS as urban (nearer to a major town or city), among the 10% least deprived neighbourhoods in England. NHS services here are planned by NHS Thames Valley ICB.
Within about a 10-minute walk there is a GP surgery (3 min), a pharmacy (9 min), a shop (5 min), a park (1 min), a café (7 min), a bus stop (3 min) and a railway station (7 min), which matters for residents who can go out and for visiting family.
Specialisms
Specialisms as registered with CQC.
The inspection, summarised
- The Meadows Care Home is a 68 bed residential and nursing care home for older people some of whom were living with dementia.
- This assessment included a site visit to the service by an inspector and 2 Experts by Experience on 23 January 2024.
- Risks were managed well, and staff were aware of them.
- Relatives said the home was clean and people were able to take part in various activities to meet their interests and needs.
Inspected 29 January 2019; report published 12 March 2019. Source: CQC's published findings, reused under the Open Government Licence. Read the full report.
Likely fees
We estimate OSJCT The Meadows 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.
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.
Oxfordshire Council can help with costs for people with savings under £23,250, starting with a free assessment.
Reading OSJCT The Meadows's CQC ratings
OSJCT The Meadows 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 85 of the 118 other care homes in Oxfordshire that CQC has rated.
Under CQC's newer scoring, its strongest area is Safe at 75% and its lowest is Effective at 75%, averaging 75% overall.
OSJCT The Meadows over the years
CQC registration dates from November 2010, so the service has been operating for around 15 years under its current registration.
CQC has published 5 overall ratings for it (2015–2024), starting at Requires improvement and improving to Good.
6 reports have been published for this location, most recently on 12 March 2019.
Each area CQC checks
- Safe75% score102 of 119 in Oxfordshire
- Effective75% score107 of 119 in Oxfordshire
- Caring75% score103 of 119 in Oxfordshire
- Responsive75% score95 of 119 in Oxfordshire
- Well-led75% score86 of 119 in Oxfordshire
CQC key question ratings, published 25 March 2024. Under each rating: how many care homes in Oxfordshire share it.
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OSJCT The Meadows against its area
- Rated Good. Across Oxfordshire, 87% of the 119 rated care homes are Good or Outstanding and 13 are Outstanding.
- Its rating (March 2024) is more recent than 76% of care home ratings in Oxfordshire.
- With 68 beds it is larger than 80% of care homes in Oxfordshire, where the typical home has 48.
- Registered with CQC in 2010: it has been registered longer than 91% of care homes in the area.
- It lists 2 specialisms with CQC; the typical care home in Oxfordshire lists 3.
All figures compare it with other care homes in Oxfordshire; CQC register, Oct 2026.
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Frequently asked about OSJCT The Meadows
- What kind of care can OSJCT The Meadows offer?
- OSJCT The Meadows is registered for nursing homes. Ask which of these it provides at the moment.
- Where is OSJCT The Meadows based?
- It is at Britwell Road, Didcot, OX11 7JN.
- Is OSJCT The Meadows registered with CQC?
- Registered, yes: location 1-122152810 on the Care Quality Commission register, listed as a care home and was rated Good overall in March 2024.
- Does OSJCT The Meadows support people with dementia?
- Dementia appears among its CQC specialisms; ask about staff training and how care adapts as dementia progresses.
- When was OSJCT The Meadows last inspected?
- The rating now shown was published on 25 March 2024, 2 years ago. Ask what has changed since then, for example in management or staffing.
- How many beds does OSJCT The Meadows have?
- OSJCT The Meadows is registered for up to 68 residents. Ask about current vacancies and whether rooms have en-suite facilities.
- Who is the registered provider for OSJCT The Meadows?
- The Orders Of St. John Care Trust is the registered provider for OSJCT The Meadows.
- How much does OSJCT The Meadows charge?
- We don't have published prices from OSJCT The Meadows yet. Residential care home typically costs £1,555 a week (average 2026 self-funder fees in South East). Get the quote in writing, including any extra charges.
- How is OSJCT The Meadows rated for safety and leadership?
- By key question, CQC gave: Safe: Good; Effective: Good; Caring: Good; Responsive: Good; Well-led: Good. Read Safe and Well-led first; they say most about reliability.
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