Care home · Sedgley
The Firs Residential Home
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- Wodehouse Lane, Gospel End, Sedgley, DY3 4AE
- Run by
- Northgate Healthcare Limited (4 services)
- Type of provider
- Independent (private company)
- Service
- Residential care home
- Beds
- 57 (registered with CQC)
- Nursing care
- No, residential care only (CQC registration)
- Dementia
- Registered with CQC to support people living with dementia
- Registered with CQC
- June 2011 (15 years)
- Registered manager
- Victoria Ann Harvey
- Company check
- Active, trading since 2006 (20 years), accounts up to date (Companies House 05773858)
- Last CQC check
- 5 Mar 2021
- Typical fees Estimated
- £1,210–£1,470 a week for residential care (dementia). Estimated from prices published locally; not a quote. How we estimate
Registered to provide: Accommodation for persons who require nursing or personal care
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See this service on the CQC website · CQC location ID 1-253000012
About this home
The Firs Residential Home in Sedgley is registered with the Care Quality Commission as a residential care home, run by Northgate Healthcare Limited. The service is registered to support older people and lists dementia, physical disabilities and mental health conditions among its specialisms.
CQC rated it Good overall (January 2019). It is one of 6 CQC-registered care homes in and around Sedgley; 3 of those are rated Good or Outstanding.
Likely fees
We estimate The Firs Residential Home at £1,210–£1,470 a week for residential care (dementia), based on published prices in the region. Over a year that is roughly £63k–£76k.
Ask whether the fee changes if needs increase, and what is extra: hairdressing, chiropody, outings and newspapers are often charged separately.
People with savings under £23,250 may get help from Staffordshire Council after a needs and financial assessment.
Who they support
Specialisms as registered with CQC.
Around Sedgley
Choice is wide here: the 25 nearest other care homes are all within 3 miles, 13 of them rated Good or Outstanding, and the closest is Sedgley Court, under 0.5 miles away.
18 of the 20 nearest rated care homes have a more recent rating than this one.
It sits in Himley & Swindon ward, classed by ONS as smaller rural (nearer to a major town or city), among the 50% least deprived neighbourhoods in England. NHS services here are planned by NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent ICB.
Within about a 10-minute walk there is a café (8 min) and a bus stop (1 min), which matters for residents who can go out and for visiting family.
Inspection findings in brief
- The Firs Residential Home provides accommodation and personal care to a maximum of 57 older people.
- We found the following examples of good practice. ● A visiting pod was used for relatives to visit their family members.
- Relatives could access the pod from the outside so there was little risk of them spreading infection into the home. ● The service provides care to people with varying levels of dementia.
- The staff described the difficulty in getting people to social distance as some understanding was low.
Inspected 17 February 2021; report published 5 March 2021. Source: CQC's published findings, reused under the Open Government Licence. Read the full report.
Ownership and company checks
The Firs Residential Home is run by Northgate Healthcare Limited (company 05773858), incorporated in 2006, 5 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 residential care for older and disabled people.
Northgate Healthcare Limited runs 4 CQC-registered services; 4 of the 4 with a rating are Good or Outstanding (100%), against 83% for the same mix of services across England.
All 4 are in Staffordshire, so it is a local operator rather than a national chain.
How its rating has changed
- Jul 2016
- Jan 2019
- Mar 2021
- Today Rating 7 years old
Published CQC ratings in date order. The latest rating is lower than the one before.
Published inspection reports
- CQC inspection report 5 March 2021
- CQC inspection report 25 January 2019
- CQC inspection report 13 July 2016
- Inspection report 28 November 2013
- Inspection report 26 July 2013
- Inspection report 29 March 2012
Food safety inspection
The kitchen has a food hygiene rating of 5 (very good), from an inspection on 28 May 2025 by South Staffordshire. Try to visit at a mealtime: it shows how food, choice and help with eating work in practice.
From the Food Standards Agency (listed as "The Firs Residential Care Home"). Open Government Licence.
Where it is
- Ward
- Himley & Swindon
- Parliamentary constituency
- Kingswinford and South Staffordshire
- NHS integrated care board
- NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Integrated Care Board
- Area classification
- Smaller rural, nearer to a major town or city
- Neighbourhood deprivation
- Among the 50% least deprived areas in England
- Postcode district
- Care homes in DY3 (9)
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Nearby
- Bus stop 110 m (1 min walk) · 4 stops within 600 m
- Park Baggeridge Country Park, 900 m (11 min walk)
- Café 620 m (8 min walk)
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). These are direct-line distances, so real walking routes, and times, will be longer.
Geography: ONS and NHS lookups (postcodes.io), Open Government Licence.
The Firs Residential Home over the years
Registered in June 2011, it has 15 years on the CQC register.
CQC has published 3 overall ratings for it (2016–2021), starting at Good; it has gone up 0 and down 0 times, and is now Inspected but not rated.
7 years have passed since the last overall rating. Services judged lower-risk wait longer for a visit, but teams change, so check what is different today.
CQC lists 6 reports for this location, the latest dated 5 March 2021.
Each area CQC checks
- Safe183 of 235 in Staffordshire
- Effective207 of 235 in Staffordshire
- Caring224 of 235 in Staffordshire
- Responsive209 of 235 in Staffordshire
- Well-led157 of 235 in Staffordshire
CQC key question ratings, published 25 January 2019. Under each rating: how many care homes in Staffordshire share it.
What the ratings tell you
The Firs Residential 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 156 of the 234 other care homes in Staffordshire that CQC has rated.
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How The Firs Residential Home compares
- Rated Good. Across Staffordshire, 78% of the 235 rated care homes are Good or Outstanding and 8 are Outstanding.
- Its rating (January 2019) is more recent than 12% of care home ratings in Staffordshire.
- With 57 beds it is larger than 80% of care homes in Staffordshire, where the typical home has 28.
- Registered with CQC in 2011: it has been registered longer than 64% of care homes in the area.
- It lists 4 specialisms with CQC; the typical care home in Staffordshire lists 4.
Comparison set: every registered care home in Staffordshire, CQC data for Oct 2026.
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What families ask about The Firs Residential Home
- Is The Firs Residential Home registered with CQC?
- Registered, yes: location 1-253000012 on the Care Quality Commission register, listed as a care home and was rated Good overall in January 2019.
- Where is The Firs Residential Home based?
- It is at Wodehouse Lane, Gospel End, Sedgley, DY3 4AE.
- What services is The Firs Residential Home registered for?
- Its CQC registration covers residential homes. Ask The Firs Residential Home how it would adapt if needs increase.
- When did CQC last rate The Firs Residential Home?
- 25 January 2019 is when the current rating was published, 7 years ago. Check what has changed since, such as the manager or staffing.
- Does The Firs Residential Home support people with dementia?
- Dementia appears among its CQC specialisms; ask about staff training and how care adapts as dementia progresses.
- Which provider runs The Firs Residential Home?
- On CQC's register the provider is Northgate Healthcare Limited.
- How many beds does The Firs Residential Home have?
- The Firs Residential Home can take up to 57 residents. Ask what is free now and about en-suite rooms.
- How did The Firs Residential Home score on each CQC key question?
- By key question, CQC gave: Safe: Good; Effective: Good; Caring: Good; Responsive: Good; Well-led: Good. Safe and Well-led are the two to read first in the report.
- What are The Firs Residential Home's fees?
- No fee list from The Firs Residential Home has reached us. Residential care home typically costs £1,295 a week (average 2026 self-funder fees in West Midlands). Ask for a written quote that includes weekend and bank holiday rates.
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Source: the CQC register as of Oct 2026 (Open Government Licence v3.0), with our own analysis. Anything marked "in the provider's own words" comes from the provider. The Care Panel does not provide care.