Care home · Reigate
Priors Mead Care Home
Typical fee here £1,400–£1,710 a week Estimate
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Illustrative photo, not of Priors Mead Care Home- Address
- 26 Blanford Road, Reigate, RH2 7DR
- Run by
- Nightingale Retirement Care Limited (3 services)
- Type of provider
- Independent (private company)
- Service
- Residential care home
- Beds
- 17 (registered with CQC)
- Nursing care
- No, residential care only (CQC registration)
- Dementia
- Not listed as a specialism with CQC; ask the provider
- Registered with CQC
- January 2011 (15 years)
- Registered manager
- Sandra Randall
- Company check
- Active, trading since 1992 (34 years), accounts up to date (Companies House 02716946)
- Last CQC check
- 12 Jun 2025
- Typical fees Estimated
- £1,400–£1,710 a week for residential care. Estimate only, from published local rates. How we estimate
Registered activities: Accommodation for persons who require nursing or personal care
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CQC page for this service · CQC location ID 1-111375428
About this home
Priors Mead Care Home in Reigate is registered with the Care Quality Commission as a residential care home, run by Nightingale Retirement Care Limited. It is registered to support older people.
CQC rated it Good overall (June 2025). It is one of 13 CQC-registered care homes in and around Reigate; 8 of those are rated Good or Outstanding.
Each area CQC checks
- Safe75% score268 of 325 in Surrey
- Effective71% score286 of 325 in Surrey
- Caring70% score292 of 325 in Surrey
- Responsive75% score273 of 325 in Surrey
- Well-led75% score237 of 325 in Surrey
As rated by CQC, published 12 June 2025. Under each rating: how many care homes in Surrey share it.
The company behind Priors Mead Care Home
Priors Mead Care Home is run by Nightingale Retirement Care Limited (company 02716946), incorporated in 1992, 18 years before this service registered with CQC.
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 residential care for older and disabled people.
Nightingale Retirement Care Limited runs 3 CQC-registered services across 2 council areas; 3 of the 3 with a rating are Good or Outstanding (100%), against 85% for the same mix of services across England.
Who they support
From the CQC register; ask how each need is met in practice.
Scores behind the rating
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, Priors Mead Care 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 71%
- Assessing needs3 · Good
- Delivering evidence-based care and treatment2 · Some shortfalls
- 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 dignity2 · Some shortfalls
- 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 1 April 2025, published 12 June 2025, Open Government Licence. Where no score shows, that statement wasn't part of this assessment and its earlier result still counts.
Past CQC ratings
- Jul 2016
- Feb 2019
- Jun 2025
- Today Rating 1 year old
Published CQC ratings in date order.
CQC reports
- CQC inspection report 21 February 2019
- CQC inspection report 29 July 2016
- Inspection report 29 August 2014
- Inspection report 16 October 2013
- Inspection report 8 February 2013
Food safety inspection
The kitchen has a food hygiene rating of 3 (generally satisfactory), from an inspection on 29 June 2026 by Reigate and Banstead. Meals matter in a care home: ask to see a menu and whether residents can choose.
From the Food Standards Agency (listed as "Priors Mead Home"). Open Government Licence.
The neighbourhood
- Ward
- Meadvale & St John's
- Council
- Surrey County Council · paying for care
- Parliamentary constituency
- Reigate
- NHS area (integrated care board)
- NHS Surrey and Sussex Integrated Care Board
- ONS area type
- Urban · nearer to a major town or city
- Neighbourhood deprivation
- Among the 10% least deprived areas in England
- Postcode district
- Care homes in RH2 (12)
Bigger map · Route planner · © OpenStreetMap contributors
Around the building
- Bus stop 190 m (2 min walk) · 19 stops within 600 m
- Railway station Reigate, 1.3 km (16 min walk)
- GP surgery Earnsdale Clinic, 660 m (8 min walk)
- Pharmacy Day Lewis Pharmacy, 1.0 km (13 min walk)
- Shop Ruby, 900 m (11 min walk)
- Park 590 m (7 min walk)
- Café Nisou, 590 m (7 min walk)
- Place of worship Reigate Meeting House (Quaker), 470 m (6 min walk)
- Library Reigate Library, 970 m (12 min walk)
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). These are direct-line distances, so real walking routes, and times, will be longer.
Ward, NHS area and deprivation from ONS and NHS postcode data (postcodes.io, Open Government Licence).
How it fits locally
Choice is wide here: the 25 nearest other care homes are all within 3 miles, 18 of them rated Good or Outstanding, and the closest is 33 Blanford Road, under 0.5 miles away.
5 of the 23 nearest rated care homes have a more recent rating than this one.
It sits in Meadvale & St John's 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 Surrey and Sussex ICB.
Within about a 10-minute walk there is a GP surgery (8 min), a park (7 min), a café (7 min) and a bus stop (2 min), which matters for residents who can go out and for visiting family.
The ratings in context
Priors Mead Care 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 236 of the 324 other care homes in Surrey that CQC has rated.
Under CQC's newer scoring, its strongest area is Responsive at 75% and its lowest is Caring at 70%, averaging 73% overall.
Budgeting for this home
We estimate Priors Mead Care Home at £1,400–£1,710 a week for residential care, based on published prices in the region. Over a year that is roughly £73k–£89k.
Ask how often fees rise and whether they go up if care needs increase.
With savings below £23,250, Surrey Council may contribute once it has carried out a free needs assessment.
What inspectors found
- Priors Mead Care Home provides accommodation and personal care for up to 17 people on 3 separate floors.
- The home provides a service to older people including people living with dementia.
- This was a responsive assessment due to concerns we received in relation to the care of a person who used the service.
- People and their relatives were happy with the service.
Inspected 14 January 2019; report published 21 February 2019; supporting 15 people at the time. From the regulator's own summary (Open Government Licence). Read the full report.
History with CQC
Registered in January 2011, it has 15 years on the CQC register.
CQC has published 3 overall ratings for it (2016–2025), starting at Good and staying Good every time.
Reports on record: 5, with the most recent dated 21 February 2019.
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Quick answers about Priors Mead Care Home
- Is Priors Mead Care Home registered for dementia care?
- No dementia specialism is recorded with CQC. Ask the provider directly if this is likely to matter.
- How recent is Priors Mead Care Home's CQC rating?
- 12 June 2025 is when the current rating was published, 1 year ago. Check what has changed since, such as the manager or staffing.
- What is Priors Mead Care Home's address?
- It is at 26 Blanford Road, Reigate, RH2 7DR.
- Is Priors Mead Care Home a registered provider?
- Priors Mead Care Home is on the CQC register as a care home (ID 1-111375428) and was rated Good overall in June 2025.
- What type of care does Priors Mead Care Home provide?
- Registration for Priors Mead Care Home covers: residential homes. Check which of these it offers today.
- How much does care from Priors Mead Care Home cost?
- We don't have published prices from Priors Mead Care Home yet. 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.
- How did Priors Mead Care Home score on each CQC key question?
- CQC rates five key questions. For Priors Mead Care Home: Safe: Good; Effective: Good; Caring: Good; Responsive: Good; Well-led: Good. Read Safe and Well-led first; they say most about reliability.
- How many beds does Priors Mead Care Home have?
- CQC capacity for Priors Mead Care Home: 17 beds. Ask about current availability and room facilities.
- Who runs Priors Mead Care Home?
- Nightingale Retirement Care Limited is the registered provider for Priors Mead Care Home.
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