Home care agency · Cambridge
A Quality Care Service Limited
Typical fee here £30–£37 an hour Estimate
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- 5 Woburn Place, Duxford, Cambridge, CB22 4QJ
- Run by
- A Quality Care Service Limited
- Type of provider
- Independent (private company)
- Service
- Home care agency
- Dementia
- Registered with CQC to support people living with dementia
- Registered with CQC
- February 2019 (7 years)
- Registered manager
- Geraldine Rita Cairns
- Company check
- Active, trading since 2018 (7 years), accounts up to date (Companies House 11705965)
- Last CQC check
- 8 Apr 2020
- Typical fees Estimated
- £30–£37 an hour for visiting care, weekdays; live-in £1,450–£1,770 a week. An estimate based on local published fees. Ask for a written quote. How we estimate
CQC regulated activities: Personal care
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Open CQC's full report · CQC location ID 1-6521134593
The service in brief
A Quality Care Service Limited is a CQC-registered home care agency in Cambridge. Its CQC registration covers adults of all ages, including people living with dementia, physical disabilities and mental health conditions.
At its most recent rating, CQC judged it Good overall (April 2020). It is one of 24 CQC-registered home care agencies that have an office within 7 miles of Sawston; 14 of those are rated Good or Outstanding.
Around Cambridge
There is 1 other agency within 3 miles, 1 of them rated Good or Outstanding; the nearest is Bircham House, 2.5 miles away.
6 of the 14 nearest rated agencies have a more recent rating than this one.
It sits in Whittlesford ward, classed by ONS as smaller rural (nearer to a major town or city), among the 30% least deprived neighbourhoods in England. NHS services here are planned by NHS Central East ICB.
Likely fees
We estimate visits from A Quality Care Service Limited at £30–£37 an hour (visiting care, weekdays), based on published prices in the region. As an example, an hour each morning and a 30-minute evening call comes to about £350 a week.
A live-in carer typically costs £1,450–£1,770 a week locally.
People with savings under £23,250 may get help from Cambridgeshire Council after a needs and financial assessment.
A Quality Care Service Limited over the years
Registered in February 2019, it has 7 years on the CQC register.
One overall rating to date: Good, published April 2020.
No new overall rating has been published for 6 years. CQC re-inspects based on risk, so an old rating is not a bad sign in itself, but staff and management may have changed.
Who the service is registered for
Registration details from CQC.
The company behind A Quality Care Service Limited
A Quality Care Service Limited is run by A Quality Care Service Limited (company 11705965), incorporated in 2018.
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 other human health activities.
How its rating has changed
- Apr 2020
- Today Rating 6 years old
Published CQC ratings in date order.
Inspection reports to read
- CQC inspection report 8 April 2020
The neighbourhood
- Ward
- Whittlesford
- Parliamentary constituency
- South Cambridgeshire
- NHS planning area
- NHS Central East Integrated Care Board
- Type of area
- Smaller rural: nearer to a major town or city
- Neighbourhood deprivation
- Among the 30% least deprived areas in England
- Postcode district
- Home care in CB22 (6)
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Area details from ONS and NHS postcode data via postcodes.io (Open Government Licence). This is the agency's office; care is delivered in people's own homes around it.
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 70 of the 88 other agencies in Cambridgeshire that CQC has rated.
How CQC rated each area
- Safe78 of 89 in Cambridgeshire
- Effective85 of 89 in Cambridgeshire
- Caring84 of 89 in Cambridgeshire
- Responsive82 of 89 in Cambridgeshire
- Well-led71 of 89 in Cambridgeshire
Ratings from CQC's most recent report, published 8 April 2020. Under each rating: how many agencies in Cambridgeshire share it.
What CQC's inspectors reported
- The provider had systems in place to manage risks and keep people safe from avoidable harm.
- Staff followed good practice guidance to prevent the spread of infection and gave people their medicines safely.
- Staff were kind and caring and made sure people's privacy and dignity was respected.
- People, and their relatives were involved in making decisions on the care they wanted.
Inspected 24 March 2020; report published 8 April 2020. Quoted from the CQC report summary, Open Government Licence. Read the full report.
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A Quality Care Service Limited in local context
- Rated Good. Across Cambridgeshire, 90% of the 89 rated home care agencies are Good or Outstanding and 3 are Outstanding.
- Its rating (April 2020) is more recent than 47% of agency ratings in Cambridgeshire.
- Registered with CQC in 2019: it has been registered longer than 62% of home care agencies in the area.
- It lists 5 specialisms with CQC; the typical agency in Cambridgeshire lists 6.
Benchmarked against all CQC-registered home care agencies in Cambridgeshire (Oct 2026).
Nearby options
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Quick answers about A Quality Care Service Limited
- How is A Quality Care Service Limited rated for safety and leadership?
- The five CQC areas: Safe: Good; Effective: Good; Caring: Good; Responsive: Good; Well-led: Good. Safe and Well-led are the sections most worth your time.
- Can A Quality Care Service Limited care for someone with dementia?
- Yes. Dementia is one of the specialisms on its CQC registration. Ask how many carers or staff have dementia training.
- Is A Quality Care Service Limited regulated by the Care Quality Commission?
- Registered, yes: location 1-6521134593 on the Care Quality Commission register, listed as a home care agency and was rated Good overall in April 2020.
- When did CQC last rate A Quality Care Service Limited?
- The rating now shown was published on 8 April 2020, 6 years ago. Ask what has changed since then, for example in management or staffing.
- What kind of care can A Quality Care Service Limited offer?
- Registration for A Quality Care Service Limited covers: homecare agencies. Check which of these it offers today.
- How much does A Quality Care Service Limited charge?
- No fee list from A Quality Care Service Limited has reached us. Visiting care typically costs around £32–£34 an hour (typical 2026 prices across England). Ask for written prices covering weekends, bank holidays and any travel or set-up charges.
- Where is A Quality Care Service Limited?
- The agency works from 5 Woburn Place, Duxford, Cambridge, CB22 4QJ; ask which postcodes its carers cover.
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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.