Care home · Redditch
Southcrest Nursing Home
Illustrative photo, not of Southcrest Nursing Home- Address
- 215 Mount Pleasant, Southcrest, Redditch, B97 4JG
- Run by
- Dr Sabarathnam Ananthram and Mrs Kalpana Ananthram
- Service
- Nursing home
- Beds
- 40 (registered with CQC)
- Registered with CQC
- March 2011 (15 years)
- Registered manager
- Vanessa Ann House
- Last CQC check
- 23 Jun 2026
- Typical fees Estimated
- £1,380–£1,690 a week for nursing care (dementia). An estimate based on local published fees. Ask for a written quote. How we estimate
CQC regulated activities: Accommodation for persons who require nursing or personal care · Treatment of disease, disorder or injury
Full report at cqc.org.uk · CQC location ID 1-155491854
The service in brief
Southcrest Nursing Home in Redditch is registered with the Care Quality Commission as a nursing home, run by Dr Sabarathnam Ananthram and Mrs Kalpana Ananthram. The service is registered to support adults of all ages and lists dementia, physical disabilities and sight or hearing loss among its specialisms.
CQC rated it Good overall (June 2026). It is one of 12 CQC-registered care homes in and around Redditch; 9 of those are rated Good or Outstanding.
Safe, effective, caring, responsive, well-led
- Safe75% score135 of 158 in Worcestershire
- Effective75% score148 of 158 in Worcestershire
- Caring75% score148 of 158 in Worcestershire
- Responsive75% score142 of 158 in Worcestershire
- Well-led75% score117 of 158 in Worcestershire
Ratings from CQC's most recent report, published 23 June 2026. Under each rating: how many care homes in Worcestershire share it.
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, Southcrest Nursing Home 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
How to read the numbers: 4 exceptional, 3 good, 2 some shortfalls, 1 significant shortfalls. Published by CQC, assessed 21 April 2026, published 23 June 2026 under the Open Government Licence; a blank score means the statement was carried over unchanged.
How its rating has changed
- Feb 2015
- Oct 2015
- Nov 2017
- Jun 2018
- Dec 2018
- Jan 2020
- Jun 2026
- Today Rated in the last 12 months
CQC rating timeline for this address. The latest rating is an improvement on the one before.
Published inspection reports
- CQC inspection report 17 January 2020
- CQC inspection report 20 December 2018
- CQC inspection report 19 June 2018
- CQC inspection report 10 November 2017
- CQC inspection report 16 October 2015
- CQC inspection report 26 February 2015
Food hygiene
The kitchen has a food hygiene rating of 4 (good), from an inspection on 24 July 2024 by Redditch. Meals matter in a care home: ask to see a menu and whether residents can choose.
From the Food Standards Agency (listed as "Southcrest Nursing Home"). Open Government Licence.
Area and map
- Ward
- Central
- Parliamentary constituency
- Redditch
- NHS planning area
- NHS Herefordshire and Worcestershire Integrated Care Board
- Setting
- Urban · nearer to a major town or city
- Neighbourhood deprivation
- Among the 50% least deprived areas in England
- Postcode district
- Care homes in B97 (11)
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Within walking distance
- Bus stop 30 m (1 min walk) · 25 stops within 600 m
- Railway station Redditch, 970 m (12 min walk)
- GP surgery Hillview Medical Centre, 970 m (12 min walk)
- Pharmacy Knights Pharmacy, 380 m (5 min walk)
- Shop Mount Pleasant Post Office and Store, 170 m (2 min walk)
- Park 420 m (5 min walk)
- Café Costa, 800 m (10 min walk)
- Place of worship Southcrest Evangelical Church, 240 m (3 min walk)
- Library Redditch Library, 1.0 km (13 min walk)
Straight-line distances to the nearest of each, from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL). Walking routes are longer; check for hills and crossings if you plan to take a relative out.
Local area facts: ONS and NHS geography via postcodes.io, Open Government Licence.
Strengths and weak spots in the ratings
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 116 of the 157 other care homes in Worcestershire that CQC has rated.
Under CQC's newer scoring, its strongest area is Caring at 75% and its lowest is Well-led at 75%, averaging 75% overall.
From the latest CQC inspection
- Southcrest Nursing Home is registered to provide care and support for up to 40 people.
- The service can support older people, younger people,and those living with a sensory impairment, physical disability or dementia.
- The previous inspection for this service was November 2019, and the service was rated as requires improvement, with improvements in care records and governance being identified. People were protected from harm by exceptional governance systems and processes.
- People told us they felt safe and happy living at Southcrest nursing home, they said staff were kind and caring.
Inspected 28 November 2019; report published 17 January 2020; supporting 24 people at the time. Source: CQC's published findings, reused under the Open Government Licence. Read the full report.
Needs it is registered to meet
From the CQC register; ask how each need is met in practice.
Track record
Southcrest Nursing Home has been registered with CQC since March 2011, about 15 years.
CQC has published 7 overall ratings for it (2015–2026), starting at Requires improvement; it has gone up 2 and down 1 time, and is now Good.
There are 6 CQC reports on file for this address; the newest is from 17 January 2020.
Costs to expect
We estimate Southcrest Nursing Home at £1,380–£1,690 a week for nursing care (dementia), based on published prices in the region. Over a year that is roughly £72k–£88k.
If nursing care is needed, the NHS pays a weekly NHS-funded nursing care contribution directly to the home, whoever pays the rest.
With savings below £23,250, Worcestershire Council may contribute once it has carried out a free needs assessment.
Who runs it
Southcrest Nursing Home is the only service its provider, Dr Sabarathnam Ananthram and Mrs Kalpana Ananthram, runs, so it is an independent, single-site operator rather than part of a chain.
Choice nearby
There are 14 other care homes within 3 miles, 12 of them rated Good or Outstanding; the nearest is The Willow Care Home, under 0.5 miles away.
2 of the 23 nearest rated care homes have a more recent rating than this one.
It sits in Central ward, classed by ONS as urban (nearer to a major town or city), among the 50% least deprived neighbourhoods in England. NHS services here are planned by NHS Herefordshire and Worcestershire ICB.
Within about a 10-minute walk there is a pharmacy (5 min), a shop (2 min), a park (5 min) and a bus stop (1 min), which matters for residents who can go out and for visiting family.
Family reviews
No family has reviewed Southcrest Nursing Home on The Care Panel so far.
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Where Southcrest Nursing Home stands locally
- Rated Good. Across Worcestershire, 87% of the 158 rated care homes are Good or Outstanding and 7 are Outstanding.
- Its rating (June 2026) is more recent than 91% of care home ratings in Worcestershire.
- With 40 beds it is larger than 53% of care homes in Worcestershire, where the typical home has 38.
- Registered with CQC in 2011: it has been registered longer than 61% of care homes in the area.
- It lists 5 specialisms with CQC; the typical care home in Worcestershire lists 4.
Benchmarked against all CQC-registered care homes in Worcestershire (Oct 2026).
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Southcrest Nursing Home questions answered
- What kind of care can Southcrest Nursing Home offer?
- Its CQC registration covers nursing homes. Ask Southcrest Nursing Home how it would adapt if needs increase.
- Is Southcrest Nursing Home a registered provider?
- Yes. Southcrest Nursing Home is registered with the Care Quality Commission as a care home (location ID 1-155491854) and was rated Good overall in June 2026.
- Where is Southcrest Nursing Home?
- It is at 215 Mount Pleasant, Southcrest, Redditch, B97 4JG.
- When was Southcrest Nursing Home last inspected?
- 23 June 2026 is when the current rating was published. Check what has changed since, such as the manager or staffing.
- Can Southcrest Nursing Home care for someone with dementia?
- Yes, it is registered for dementia. Worth asking: how many staff are trained, and how routines are kept consistent.
- Who runs Southcrest Nursing Home?
- Southcrest Nursing Home is run by Dr Sabarathnam Ananthram and Mrs Kalpana Ananthram, the registered provider on the CQC register.
- How big is Southcrest Nursing Home?
- CQC registers Southcrest Nursing Home for 40 residents; ask about vacancies, room sizes and en-suite bathrooms.
- How is Southcrest Nursing Home rated for safety and leadership?
- By key question, CQC gave: 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 much does care from Southcrest Nursing Home cost?
- Southcrest Nursing Home's prices aren't on our site yet. Residential care home typically costs £1,206 a week (average 2026 self-funder fees in West Midlands). Request a written quote and check what is charged on top.
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