Care home · Ripon
The Moors Care Centre
Illustrative photo, not of The Moors Care Centre- Address
- 155 Harrogate Road, Ripon, HG4 2SB
- Run by
- Ripon Stourport Care Limited (2 services)
- Type of provider
- Independent (private company)
- Service
- Nursing home
- Beds
- 70 (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
- August 2019 (7 years)
- Part of
- Maria Mallaband Care Group
- Registered manager
- Susan Mary Simpkin
- Company check
- Active, trading since 2019 (7 years), accounts up to date (Companies House 11899707)
- Last CQC check
- 25 Feb 2025
- Typical fees Estimated
- £1,400–£1,720 a week for nursing care (dementia). An estimate based on local published fees. Ask for a written quote. How we estimate
Registered activities: 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 1-7382851872
The Moors Care Centre at a glance
Registered with CQC as a nursing home, The Moors Care Centre is based in Ripon, run by Ripon Stourport Care Limited. It supports adults of all ages, with registered specialisms in dementia, physical disabilities, mental health conditions and sight or hearing loss.
Its latest CQC rating is Good overall (February 2025). It is one of 9 CQC-registered care homes in and around Ripon; 9 of those are rated Good or Outstanding.
Percentage scores by area
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, The Moors Care Centre scores 77%.
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 79%
- Assessing needs3 · Good
- Delivering evidence-based care and treatment3 · Good
- How staff, teams and services work together3 · Good
- Supporting people to live healthier lives4 · Exceptional
- Monitoring and improving outcomes3 · Good
- Consent to care and treatment3 · Good
Caring 80%
- Kindness, compassion and dignity3 · Good
- Treating people as individuals3 · Good
- Independence, choice and control4 · Exceptional
- 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
Key: 4 = exceptional, 3 = good, 2 = some shortfalls, 1 = significant shortfalls. Source: CQC, assessed 18 December 2024, published 25 February 2025, Open Government Licence. Unscored statements weren't reviewed this time and keep their previous result.
Ratings over time
- Jun 2017
- Jan 2018
- Aug 2018
- Aug 2019
- Jan 2022
- Feb 2025
- Today Rating 1 year old
CQC rating timeline for this address. The latest rating is an improvement on the one before.
CQC reports
- CQC inspection report 13 January 2022
The kitchen's hygiene score
The kitchen has a food hygiene rating of 5 (very good), from an inspection on 16 April 2025 by North Yorkshire. 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 Moors Care Centre"). Open Government Licence.
Map and area details
- Ward
- Ripon Minster & Moorside
- Council
- North Yorkshire Council · paying for care
- Parliamentary constituency
- Skipton and Ripon
- Integrated care board
- NHS Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board
- Setting
- Urban, nearer to a major town or city
- Neighbourhood deprivation
- Among the 20% least deprived areas in England
- Postcode district
- Care homes in HG4 (10)
View on OpenStreetMap · Directions · OpenStreetMap (ODbL)
Local amenities
- Bus stop 30 m (1 min walk) · 6 stops within 600 m
- Shop Morrisons, 80 m (1 min walk)
- Park 490 m (6 min walk)
- Place of worship Salvation Army Reach Out Centre, 550 m (7 min walk)
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). These are direct-line distances, so real walking routes, and times, will be longer.
Area details from ONS and NHS postcode data via postcodes.io (Open Government Licence).
History with CQC
The Moors Care Centre has been registered with CQC since August 2019, about 7 years.
CQC has published 6 overall ratings for it (2017–2025), starting at Good; it has gone up 2 and down 2 times, and is now Good.
What the ratings tell you
All five areas CQC looks at are rated Good for The Moors Care Centre: no single area stands out above or below the rest.
For leadership (Well-led), it shares its Good rating with 138 of the 180 other care homes in North Yorkshire that CQC has rated.
Under CQC's newer scoring, its strongest area is Caring at 80% and its lowest is Well-led at 75%, averaging 77% overall.
How it fits locally
There are 8 other care homes within 3 miles, 8 of them rated Good or Outstanding; the nearest is Long Meadow Care Home, under 0.5 miles away.
It is registered for needs that fewer services nearby cover: mental health conditions (2 of the nearest 11); sight or hearing loss (2 of the nearest 11).
3 of the 10 nearest rated care homes have a more recent rating than this one.
It sits in Ripon Minster & Moorside ward, classed by ONS as urban (nearer to a major town or city), among the 20% least deprived neighbourhoods in England. NHS services here are planned by NHS Humber and North Yorkshire ICB.
Within about a 10-minute walk there is a shop (1 min), a park (6 min) and a bus stop (1 min), which matters for residents who can go out and for visiting family.
Budgeting for this home
We estimate The Moors Care Centre at £1,400–£1,720 a week for nursing care (dementia), based on published prices in the region. Over a year that is roughly £73k–£89k.
Part of a nursing fee may be met by the NHS (NHS-funded nursing care), paid to the home rather than to you.
Council help is possible below £23,250 in savings: ask North Yorkshire Council for a free care needs assessment.
The five key questions
- Safe75% score146 of 181 in North Yorkshire
- Effective79% score164 of 181 in North Yorkshire
- Caring80% score168 of 181 in North Yorkshire
- Responsive75% score166 of 181 in North Yorkshire
- Well-led75% score139 of 181 in North Yorkshire
As rated by CQC, published 25 February 2025. Under each rating: how many care homes in North Yorkshire share it.
Inspection findings in brief
- Staff understood their responsibilities in safeguarding people from abuse.
- Staff received the support, supervision and training they needed to carry out their roles effectively.
- Systems were in place to safely administer and store medicines.
- I feel my room is my space and staff keep it clean for me." People received the support they needed with their medication.
Inspected 26 November 2021; report published 13 January 2022. Taken from CQC's own findings (Open Government Licence). Read the full report.
Ownership and company checks
The Moors Care Centre is run by Ripon Stourport Care Limited (company 11899707), incorporated in 2019.
At Companies House, the company is listed as active, its accounts are filed on time, it has 5 active directors and there is no insolvency history.
Its registered business activity is nursing care.
Ripon Stourport Care Limited runs 2 CQC-registered services across 2 council areas; 2 of the 2 with a rating are Good or Outstanding (100%), against 83% for the same mix of services across England.
It trades under the Maria Mallaband Care Group brand, which covers 69 services run by 30 registered providers.
Who the service is registered for
Specialisms as registered with CQC.
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Where The Moors Care Centre stands locally
- Rated Good. Across North Yorkshire, 86% of the 180 rated care homes are Good or Outstanding and 7 are Outstanding.
- Its rating (February 2025) is more recent than 81% of care home ratings in North Yorkshire.
- With 70 beds it is larger than 88% of care homes in North Yorkshire, where the typical home has 30.
- Registered with CQC in 2019: it has been registered longer than 26% of care homes in the area.
- It lists 6 specialisms with CQC; the typical care home in North Yorkshire lists 3.
Based on the CQC register for North Yorkshire as at Oct 2026.
Also nearby
Guides for families
Ripon: care homes inspected recently
- Long Meadow Care HomeNov 2025
- The Coach House Nursing HomeOct 2026
What families ask about The Moors Care Centre
- How recent is The Moors Care Centre's CQC rating?
- CQC published the current rating on 25 February 2025, 1 year ago. Older ratings are common, so ask about changes since.
- Can The Moors Care Centre 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.
- Is The Moors Care Centre a registered provider?
- The Moors Care Centre is on the CQC register as a care home (ID 1-7382851872) and was rated Good overall in February 2025.
- Where is The Moors Care Centre based?
- It is at 155 Harrogate Road, Ripon, HG4 2SB.
- What kind of care can The Moors Care Centre offer?
- The Moors Care Centre is registered for nursing homes. Ask which of these it provides at the moment.
- How did The Moors Care Centre score on each CQC key question?
- The five CQC areas: Safe: Good; Effective: Good; Caring: Good; Responsive: Good; Well-led: Good. Read Safe and Well-led first; they say most about reliability.
- How much does care from The Moors Care Centre cost?
- The Moors Care Centre's prices aren't on our site yet. Residential care home typically costs £1,230 a week (average 2026 self-funder fees in Yorkshire and the Humber). Request a written quote and check what is charged on top.
- Who is the registered provider for The Moors Care Centre?
- On CQC's register the provider is Ripon Stourport Care Limited.
- How many beds does The Moors Care Centre have?
- The Moors Care Centre has 70 registered places. Ask how many are free now and which rooms have en-suites.
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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.