Home care agency · Lincoln
Annicare North
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- 22A The Forum, North Hykeham, Lincoln, LN6 8HW
- Run by
- Annicare North LTD (2 services)
- Service
- Community services - Healthcare, Home care agency, Supported living
- Dementia
- Registered with CQC to support people living with dementia
- Registered with CQC
- November 2021 (4 years)
- Registered manager
- Luke Bankhead
- Company check
- Active, trading since 2018 (8 years), accounts up to date (Companies House 11637799)
- Last CQC check
- 15 Jul 2025
- Typical fees Estimated
- £30–£37 an hour for visiting care, weekdays; live-in £1,450–£1,770 a week. Estimate only, from published local rates. How we estimate
Registered activities: Personal care · Treatment of disease, disorder or injury
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Read the full CQC inspection report · CQC location ID 1-11477276791
About this agency
Annicare North is a CQC-registered home care agency that also provides supported living in Lincoln, run by Annicare North LTD. Its CQC registration covers adults of all ages and children, including people living with dementia, physical disabilities, learning disabilities and mental health conditions.
At its most recent rating, CQC judged it Good overall (July 2025). It is one of 38 CQC-registered home care agencies that have an office within 7 miles of Lincoln; 24 of those are rated Good or Outstanding.
How long it has been running
Annicare North has been registered with CQC since November 2021, about 4 years.
CQC has published 3 overall ratings for it (2019–2025), starting at Good; it has gone up 1 and down 1 time, and is now Good.
The registered provider
Annicare North is run by Annicare North Ltd (company 11637799), incorporated in 2018, 3 years 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.
Annicare North LTD runs 2 CQC-registered services; 2 of the 2 with a rating are Good or Outstanding (100%), against 86% for the same mix of services across England.
All 2 are in Lincolnshire, so it is a local operator rather than a national chain.
Who they support
As listed with the regulator.
What it may cost
We estimate visits from Annicare North 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.
Regional live-in prices sit at roughly £1,450–£1,770 per week.
People with savings under £23,250 may get help from Lincolnshire Council after a needs and financial assessment.
The local picture
Choice is wide here: the 25 nearest other agencies are all within 3 miles, 16 of them rated Good or Outstanding, and the closest is CICA Solutions Office, 0.6 miles away.
It is registered for needs that fewer services nearby cover: learning disabilities (8 of the nearest 25); children (3 of the nearest 25).
2 of the 16 nearest rated agencies have a more recent rating than this one.
It sits in Hykeham Central 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 Lincolnshire ICB.
From the latest CQC inspection
- Annicare North is a homecare service which provides personal care to people in their own homes.
- It provides care to children and adults of all ages some of whom may have a learning disability or be living with dementia or a physical disability.
- The assessment took place between 2 April 2025 and 13 May 2025.
- We used an Expert by Experience to speak with people to gather their views of the care they received.
Inspected 23 May 2023; report published 26 September 2023. Taken from CQC's own findings (Open Government Licence). Read the full report.
CQC's scores in detail
Behind each rating sit scores of 1 to 4 for individual quality statements, which CQC turns into a percentage for the area. Averaged across the five areas, Annicare North scores 69%.
Safe 69%
- Learning culture3 · Good
- Safe systems, pathways and transitions3 · Good
- Safeguarding3 · Good
- Involving people to manage risks2 · Some shortfalls
- Safe environments3 · Good
- Safe and effective staffing3 · Good
- Infection prevention and control3 · Good
- Medicines optimisation2 · Some shortfalls
Effective 71%
- 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 treatment2 · Some shortfalls
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 64%
- Person-centred Care2 · Some shortfalls
- Care provision, Integration and continuity2 · Some shortfalls
- Providing Information2 · Some shortfalls
- Listening to and involving people3 · Good
- Equity in access3 · Good
- Equity in experiences and outcomes3 · Good
- Planning for the future3 · Good
Well-led 68%
- Shared direction and culture2 · Some shortfalls
- Capable, compassionate and inclusive leaders3 · Good
- Freedom to speak up3 · Good
- Workforce equality, diversity and inclusion3 · Good
- Governance, management and sustainability2 · Some shortfalls
- Partnerships and communities3 · Good
- Learning, improvement and innovation3 · Good
Scale: 1 (significant shortfalls) to 4 (exceptional). From CQC, assessed 18 October 2024, published 15 July 2025, Open Government Licence. Statements without a score were not reassessed and their earlier result stands.
How its rating has changed
- Mar 2019
- Sep 2023
- Jul 2025
- Today Rating 1 year old
Every overall rating on record for this location, earliest first. The latest rating is an improvement on the one before.
Published inspection reports
- CQC inspection report 26 September 2023
Finding it
- Ward
- Hykeham Central
- Parliamentary constituency
- Sleaford and North Hykeham
- Local NHS (ICB)
- NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board
- Setting
- Urban; nearer to a major town or city
- Neighbourhood deprivation
- Among the 20% least deprived areas in England
- Postcode district
- Home care in LN6 (22)
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Geography: ONS and NHS lookups (postcodes.io), Open Government Licence. This is the agency's office; care is delivered in people's own homes around it.
Reading Annicare North's CQC 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 62 of the 83 other agencies in Lincolnshire that CQC has rated.
Under CQC's newer scoring, its strongest area is Caring at 75% and its lowest is Responsive at 64%, averaging 69% overall.
How CQC rated each area
- Safe69% score72 of 84 in Lincolnshire
- Effective71% score78 of 84 in Lincolnshire
- Caring75% score71 of 84 in Lincolnshire
- Responsive64% score75 of 84 in Lincolnshire
- Well-led68% score63 of 84 in Lincolnshire
Source: CQC, published 15 July 2025. Under each rating: how many agencies in Lincolnshire share it.
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Where Annicare North stands locally
- Rated Good. Across Lincolnshire, 87% of the 83 rated home care agencies are Good or Outstanding and 5 are Outstanding.
- Its rating (July 2025) is more recent than 80% of agency ratings in Lincolnshire.
- Registered with CQC in 2021: it has been registered longer than 40% of home care agencies in the area.
- It lists 7 specialisms with CQC; the typical agency in Lincolnshire lists 5.
Compared with every CQC-registered home care agency in Lincolnshire. Source: CQC register, Oct 2026.
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Questions about Annicare North
- What are Annicare North's fees?
- No fee list from Annicare North has reached us. Visiting care typically costs around £32–£34 an hour (typical 2026 prices across England). Ask for a written quote that includes weekend and bank holiday rates.
- How is Annicare North rated for safety and leadership?
- CQC rates five key questions. For Annicare North: Safe: Good; Effective: Good; Caring: Good; Responsive: Good; Well-led: Good. Safe and Well-led are the sections most worth your time.
- What type of care does Annicare North provide?
- Annicare North is registered for community services - healthcare, homecare agencies, supported living. Ask which of these it provides at the moment.
- Who is the registered provider for Annicare North?
- On CQC's register the provider is Annicare North LTD.
- Is Annicare North registered for dementia care?
- Yes, it is registered for dementia. Worth asking: how many staff are trained, and how routines are kept consistent.
- How recent is Annicare North's CQC rating?
- Its current CQC rating dates from 15 July 2025, 1 year ago. Ratings can be several years old; ask what has changed since, such as a new manager.
- What is Annicare North's address?
- Its office is at 22A The Forum, North Hykeham, Lincoln, LN6 8HW. Carers travel to people's homes, so check it covers your street.
- Is Annicare North registered with CQC?
- Annicare North is on the CQC register as a home care agency (ID 1-11477276791) and was rated Good overall in July 2025.
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