Care home · Rochdale
Rakewood House Care Home
Typical fee here £1,420–£1,730 a week Estimate
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- 22 Ivor Street, Rochdale, OL11 3JA
- Run by
- Wellington Healthcare (Arden) Ltd (16 services)
- Type of provider
- Independent (private company)
- Service
- Nursing home
- Beds
- 30 (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
- September 2022 (4 years)
- Part of
- Bloomcare
- Registered manager
- *
- Company check
- Active, trading since 2015 (11 years), accounts up to date (Companies House 09448243)
- Last CQC check
- 25 Apr 2025
- Typical fees Estimated
- £1,420–£1,730 a week for nursing care (dementia). Estimated from prices published locally; not a quote. How we estimate
Regulated activities on its registration: Accommodation for persons who require nursing or personal care · Treatment of disease, disorder or injury
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Full report at cqc.org.uk · CQC location ID 1-13938538307
The service in brief
Rakewood House Care Home in Rochdale is registered with the Care Quality Commission as a nursing home, run by Wellington Healthcare (Arden) Ltd. The service is registered to support older people and lists dementia and physical disabilities among its specialisms.
CQC rated it Good overall (April 2025). It is one of 15 CQC-registered care homes in and around Heywood; 8 of those are rated Good or Outstanding.
Specialisms
As listed with the regulator.
CQC's scores in detail
CQC now scores each area it inspects from 1 to 4 against a set of "quality statements", and turns those into a percentage for the area. Averaged across the five areas, Rakewood House Care Home scores 74%.
Safe 72%
- 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 optimisation2 · Some shortfalls
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 6 March 2025, published 25 April 2025, Open Government Licence. Statements without a score were not reassessed and their earlier result stands.
Past CQC ratings
- Jan 2023
- Apr 2025
- Today Rating 1 year old
CQC rating timeline for this address. The latest rating is an improvement on the one before.
Reports on the CQC website
- CQC inspection report 25 January 2023
Finding it
- Ward
- Castleton
- Council
- Rochdale Borough Council · paying for care
- Parliamentary constituency
- Heywood and Middleton North
- NHS integrated care board
- NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board
- Setting
- Urban, nearer to a major town or city
- Neighbourhood deprivation
- Among the 30% most deprived areas in England
- Postcode district
- Care homes in OL11 (18)
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Around the building
- Bus stop 190 m (2 min walk) · 9 stops within 600 m
- Railway station Castleton, 620 m (8 min walk)
- Pharmacy Well Pharmacy, 830 m (10 min walk)
- Shop Premier, 680 m (8 min walk)
- Park 250 m (3 min walk)
- Café 820 m (10 min walk)
- Place of worship St Aidan, 670 m (8 min walk)
From OpenStreetMap data (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL), measured in a straight line, so allow extra for the actual route on foot.
Geography: ONS and NHS lookups (postcodes.io), Open Government Licence.
The ratings in context
CQC rated every one of the five key questions Good here, so there is no weak spot in the published ratings.
For leadership (Well-led), it shares its Good rating with 30 of the 53 other care homes in Rochdale that CQC has rated.
Under CQC's newer scoring, its strongest area is Caring at 75% and its lowest is Safe at 72%, averaging 74% overall.
From the latest CQC inspection
- The assessment began on 17 March and concluded on the 2 April 2025.
- Rakewood House provides accommodation and nursing care for up to 30 people.
- The assessment was prompted in part due to information of concern received in relation to poor nutrition and hydration, standards of care and record keeping.
- We spoke with 5 people and 10 relatives about their experiences.
Inspected 1 November 2022; report published 25 January 2023; supporting 26 people at the time. In CQC's words, from its published findings (Open Government Licence). Read the full report.
Ratings for safety, care and leadership
- Safe72% score34 of 54 in Rochdale
- Effective75% score45 of 54 in Rochdale
- Caring75% score47 of 54 in Rochdale
- Responsive75% score47 of 54 in Rochdale
- Well-led75% score31 of 54 in Rochdale
Source: CQC, published 25 April 2025. Under each rating: how many care homes in Rochdale share it.
Rakewood House Care Home over the years
Registered in September 2022, it has 4 years on the CQC register.
CQC has published 2 overall ratings for it (2023–2025), starting at Requires improvement and improving to Good.
The company behind Rakewood House Care Home
Rakewood House Care Home is run by Wellington Healthcare (arden) Ltd (company 09448243), incorporated in 2015, 7 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.
Wellington Healthcare (Arden) Ltd runs 16 CQC-registered services across 4 council areas; 4 of the 6 with a rating are Good or Outstanding (67%), against 83% for the same mix of services across England.
5 of its services are in Rochdale.
It trades under the Bloomcare brand, which covers 22 services run by 3 registered providers.
Likely fees
We estimate Rakewood House Care Home at £1,420–£1,730 a week for nursing care (dementia), based on published prices in the region. Over a year that is roughly £74k–£90k.
For residents assessed as needing nursing, a weekly NHS contribution goes straight to the home towards the fee, whoever pays the rest.
If savings are under the upper limit (£23,250 in England), Rochdale Council may pay part of the cost after a free care needs assessment.
Around Rochdale
Choice is wide here: the 25 nearest other care homes are all within 3 miles, 14 of them rated Good or Outstanding, and the closest is Arkwright House Care Home, under 0.5 miles away.
2 of the 20 nearest rated care homes have a more recent rating than this one.
It sits in Castleton ward, classed by ONS as urban (nearer to a major town or city), among the 30% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. NHS services here are planned by NHS Greater Manchester ICB.
Within about a 10-minute walk there is a shop (8 min), a park (3 min), a bus stop (2 min) and a railway station (8 min), which matters for residents who can go out and for visiting family.
Family reviews
No family has reviewed Rakewood House Care Home on The Care Panel so far.
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Rakewood House Care Home against its area
- Rated Good. Across Rochdale, 65% of the 54 rated care homes are Good or Outstanding and 1 is Outstanding.
- Its rating (April 2025) is more recent than 80% of care home ratings in Rochdale.
- With 30 beds it is larger than 59% of care homes in Rochdale, where the typical home has 25.
- Registered with CQC in 2022: it has been registered longer than 16% of care homes in the area.
- It lists 3 specialisms with CQC; the typical care home in Rochdale lists 3.
Compared with every CQC-registered care home in Rochdale. Source: CQC register, Oct 2026.
Other care homes close by
Guides for families
Other care homes near Heywood with recent ratings
- Beau HouseJan 2025
What families ask about Rakewood House Care Home
- Can Rakewood House Care Home care for someone with dementia?
- Dementia is listed on its CQC registration. Ask what dementia training staff have and how they handle distress or refusals.
- When did CQC last rate Rakewood House Care Home?
- 25 April 2025 is when the current rating was published, 1 year ago. Check what has changed since, such as the manager or staffing.
- Where is Rakewood House Care Home based?
- It is at 22 Ivor Street, Rochdale, OL11 3JA.
- Is Rakewood House Care Home regulated by the Care Quality Commission?
- Yes: CQC lists it as a care home under location ID 1-13938538307 and was rated Good overall in April 2025.
- What services is Rakewood House Care Home registered for?
- Rakewood House Care Home is registered for nursing homes. Ask which of these it provides at the moment.
- How much does care from Rakewood House Care Home cost?
- We don't have published prices from Rakewood House Care Home yet. Residential care home typically costs £1,205 a week (average 2026 self-funder fees in North West). Request a written quote and check what is charged on top.
- How is Rakewood House Care Home rated for safety and leadership?
- The five CQC areas: Safe: Good; Effective: Good; Caring: Good; Responsive: Good; Well-led: Good. Safe and Well-led tend to say most about day-to-day reliability.
- How many residents can Rakewood House Care Home take?
- CQC registers Rakewood House Care Home for 30 residents; ask about vacancies, room sizes and en-suite bathrooms.
- Who is the registered provider for Rakewood House Care Home?
- The registered provider is Wellington Healthcare (Arden) Ltd, according to CQC.
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Information: Care Quality Commission, Oct 2026 (Open Government Licence v3.0). Sections in the provider's own words are theirs; we compiled everything else from public data. The Care Panel is independent and not a care provider.