Care home · Nottingham
The Orchard Care Home
Illustrative photo, not of The Orchard Care Home- Address
- 10 Papplewick Lane, Hucknall, Nottingham, NG15 7TJ
- Run by
- The Orchard Care Home Limited
- Type of provider
- Independent (private company)
- Service
- Residential care home
- Beds
- 6 (registered with CQC)
- Nursing care
- No, residential care only (CQC registration)
- Dementia
- Registered with CQC to support people living with dementia
- Registered with CQC
- January 2011 (15 years)
- Registered manager
- Mariana Mendes
- Company check
- Active, trading since 2009 (17 years), accounts up to date (Companies House 06831627)
- Last CQC check
- 6 Nov 2025
- Typical fees Estimated
- £1,160–£1,410 a week for residential care (dementia). Estimate only, from published local rates. How we estimate
CQC regulated activities: Accommodation for persons who require nursing or personal care
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Open CQC's full report · CQC location ID 1-113810532
About The Orchard Care Home
The Orchard Care Home is a CQC-registered residential care home in Nottingham, run by The Orchard Care Home Limited. Its CQC registration covers adults of all ages, including people living with dementia, physical disabilities, learning disabilities, mental health conditions and sight or hearing loss.
At its most recent rating, CQC judged it Good overall (November 2025). It is one of 22 CQC-registered care homes in and around Hucknall; 16 of those are rated Good or Outstanding.
Detailed scores
Each area below is made up of several quality statements, each scored 1 to 4 by CQC; the percentage combines those scores for the area. Averaged across the five areas, The Orchard Care Home scores 70%.
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 62%
- 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 enablement1 · Significant shortfalls
Responsive 61%
- Person-centred Care3 · Good
- Care provision, Integration and continuity1 · Significant shortfalls
- Providing Information1 · Significant shortfalls
- 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
Scores: 4 exceptional, 3 good, 2 some shortfalls, 1 significant shortfalls. From CQC's assessment, assessed 28 August 2025, published 7 January 2025 (Open Government Licence). A statement with no score was not looked at in this assessment; its earlier result still counts.
How its rating has changed
- Jan 2016
- Feb 2019
- Apr 2022
- Aug 2023
- Jan 2025
- Today Rated in the last 12 months
Every overall rating on record for this location, earliest first. The latest rating is an improvement on the one before.
Inspection reports to read
- CQC inspection report 3 August 2023
- CQC inspection report 15 April 2022
- CQC inspection report 20 February 2019
- CQC inspection report 19 January 2016
- Inspection report 28 November 2013
- Inspection report 1 June 2012
The kitchen's hygiene score
The kitchen has a food hygiene rating of 5 (very good), from an inspection on 20 February 2025 by Ashfield. Meals matter in a care home: ask to see a menu and whether residents can choose.
From the Food Standards Agency (listed as "The Orchard Care Home Ltd"). Open Government Licence.
Map and area details
- Ward
- Hucknall North
- Parliamentary constituency
- Sherwood Forest
- Local NHS (ICB)
- NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board
- Area classification
- Urban: nearer to a major town or city
- Neighbourhood deprivation
- Among the 30% most deprived areas in England
- Postcode district
- Care homes in NG15 (18)
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Close by
- Bus stop 50 m (1 min walk) · 22 stops within 600 m
- Railway station Hucknall, 170 m (2 min walk)
- GP surgery Oakenhall Medical Practice, 450 m (6 min walk)
- Pharmacy Manns Pharmacy, 470 m (6 min walk)
- Shop Papplewick Green Co-op, 390 m (5 min walk)
- Park 560 m (7 min walk)
- Café Vanilla, 470 m (6 min walk)
- Place of worship The Salvation Army, 460 m (6 min walk)
- Library Hucknall Library, 650 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.
What the ratings tell you
All five areas CQC looks at are rated Good for The Orchard Care Home: no single area stands out above or below the rest.
For leadership (Well-led), it shares its Good rating with 184 of the 253 other care homes in Nottinghamshire that CQC has rated.
Under CQC's newer scoring, its strongest area is Effective at 75% and its lowest is Responsive at 61%, averaging 70% overall.
Costs to expect
We estimate The Orchard Care Home at £1,160–£1,410 a week for residential care (dementia), based on published prices in the region. Over a year that is roughly £60k–£73k.
Ask how often fees rise and whether they go up if care needs increase.
People with savings under £23,250 may get help from Nottinghamshire Council after a needs and financial assessment.
Ownership and company checks
The Orchard Care Home is run by The Orchard Care Home Limited (company 06831627), incorporated in 2009, 1 year before this service registered with CQC.
At Companies House, the company is listed as active, its accounts are filed on time, it has 1 active director and there is no insolvency history.
Its registered business activity is residential care for older and disabled people.
Registered specialisms
Taken from its CQC registration.
Choice nearby
There are 24 other care homes within 3 miles, 18 of them rated Good or Outstanding; the nearest is Shortwood House, under 0.5 miles away.
It is registered for needs that fewer services nearby cover: learning disabilities (8 of the nearest 25).
7 of the 23 nearest rated care homes have a more recent rating than this one.
It sits in Hucknall North 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 Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB.
Within about a 10-minute walk there is a GP surgery (6 min), a pharmacy (6 min), a shop (5 min), a park (7 min), a café (6 min), a bus stop (1 min) and a railway station (2 min), which matters for residents who can go out and for visiting family.
Key points from CQC's visit
- The last assessment of The Orchard was published 7 January 2025 and rated good.
- The overall rating for The Orchard has remained good and the provider was no longer in breach of any regulations.
- Medicines were managed safely; people received their prescribed medicines on time by trained staff.
- People sought assurances from staff that inspectors were who they said they were, this indicated people trusted staff.
Inspected 13 June 2023; report published 3 August 2023. From the regulator's own summary (Open Government Licence). Read the full report.
Track record
CQC registration dates from January 2011, so the service has been operating for around 15 years under its current registration.
CQC has published 6 overall ratings for it (2016–2025), starting at Good; it has gone up 1 and down 2 times, and is now Good.
6 reports have been published for this location, most recently on 3 August 2023.
The five key questions
- Safe75% score203 of 254 in Nottinghamshire
- Effective75% score213 of 254 in Nottinghamshire
- Caring62% score224 of 254 in Nottinghamshire
- Responsive61% score218 of 254 in Nottinghamshire
- Well-led75% score185 of 254 in Nottinghamshire
As rated by CQC, published 6 November 2025. Under each rating: how many care homes in Nottinghamshire share it.
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The Orchard Care Home against its area
- Rated Good. Across Nottinghamshire, 84% of the 254 rated care homes are Good or Outstanding and 24 are Outstanding.
- Its rating (November 2025) is more recent than 75% of care home ratings in Nottinghamshire.
- With 6 beds it is smaller than 81% of care homes in Nottinghamshire, where the typical home has 25.
- Registered with CQC in 2011: it has been registered longer than 80% of care homes in the area.
- It lists 7 specialisms with CQC; the typical care home in Nottinghamshire lists 4.
Benchmarked against all CQC-registered care homes in Nottinghamshire (Oct 2026).
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Questions about The Orchard Care Home
- What is The Orchard Care Home's address?
- It is at 10 Papplewick Lane, Hucknall, Nottingham, NG15 7TJ.
- Is The Orchard Care Home regulated by the Care Quality Commission?
- Registered, yes: location 1-113810532 on the Care Quality Commission register, listed as a care home and was rated Good overall in November 2025.
- What services is The Orchard Care Home registered for?
- The Orchard Care Home is registered with CQC for: residential homes. Ask the provider which needs it can meet now and as needs change.
- Does The Orchard Care Home support people with dementia?
- Its registration includes dementia. Useful questions: how many staff hold dementia training, and how is a bad day handled?
- How recent is The Orchard Care Home's CQC rating?
- The rating now shown was published on 6 November 2025. Ask what has changed since then, for example in management or staffing.
- How big is The Orchard Care Home?
- The Orchard Care Home can take up to 6 residents. Ask what is free now and about en-suite rooms.
- Which provider runs The Orchard Care Home?
- On CQC's register the provider is The Orchard Care Home Limited.
- What are The Orchard Care Home's fees?
- The Orchard Care Home hasn't shared a price list with us. Residential care home typically costs £1,250 a week (average 2026 self-funder fees in East Midlands). Get the quote in writing, including any extra charges.
- How is The Orchard Care 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 are the two to read first in the report.
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