Home care agency · Worthing
KMX Nursing Agency
Illustrative photo, not of KMX Nursing Agency- Address
- C P L House, Ivy Arch Road, Worthing, BN14 8BX
- Run by
- KMX Care Limited
- Type of provider
- Independent (private company)
- Service
- Home care agency
- Dementia
- Registered with CQC to support people living with dementia
- Registered with CQC
- July 2018 (8 years)
- Registered manager
- Tatenda Katsamba Dennis Dzvengwe-Chiwuta
- Company check
- Active, trading since 2015 (10 years), accounts up to date (Companies House 09905595)
- Last CQC check
- 22 Aug 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 to provide: Personal care
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Read the full CQC inspection report · CQC location ID 1-5319845181
About this agency
KMX Nursing Agency is a CQC-registered home care agency in Worthing, run by KMX Care 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 (August 2025). It is one of 61 CQC-registered home care agencies that have an office within 7 miles of Worthing; 44 of those are rated Good or Outstanding.
History with CQC
CQC registration dates from July 2018, so the service has been operating for around 8 years under its current registration.
CQC has published 3 overall ratings for it (2019–2025), starting at Requires improvement and improving to Good.
CQC lists 2 reports for this location, the latest dated 8 June 2021.
How it fits locally
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 Agincare UK Worthing, under 0.5 miles away.
7 of the 17 nearest rated agencies have a more recent rating than this one.
It sits in Gaisford ward, classed by ONS as urban (nearer to a major town or city), among the 50% least deprived neighbourhoods in England. NHS services here are planned by NHS Surrey and Sussex ICB.
Ownership and company checks
KMX Nursing Agency is run by Kmx Care Ltd (company 09905595), incorporated in 2015, 2 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 medical nursing home activities.
Safe, effective, caring, responsive, well-led
- Safe72% score135 of 148 in West Sussex
- Effective75% score137 of 148 in West Sussex
- Caring75% score139 of 148 in West Sussex
- Responsive75% score134 of 148 in West Sussex
- Well-led71% score120 of 148 in West Sussex
From CQC's latest report, published 22 August 2025. Under each rating: how many agencies in West Sussex share it.
Budgeting for this agency
We estimate visits from KMX Nursing Agency 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.
For live-in care, expect around £1,450–£1,770 a week in this region.
Council help is possible below £23,250 in savings: ask West Sussex Council for a free care needs assessment.
Percentage scores by area
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, KMX Nursing Agency scores 74%.
Safe 72%
- 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 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 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 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 71%
- 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 sustainability2 · Some shortfalls
- Partnerships and communities3 · Good
- Learning, improvement and innovation3 · Good
4 means exceptional and 1 means significant shortfalls (3 good, 2 some shortfalls). CQC data, assessed 23 July 2025, published 22 August 2025, Open Government Licence. Where no score shows, that statement wasn't part of this assessment and its earlier result still counts.
Earlier inspections
- Sep 2019
- Jun 2021
- Aug 2025
- Today Rating 1 year old
Overall ratings CQC has published for this location, oldest first. The latest rating is an improvement on the one before.
CQC reports
- CQC inspection report 8 June 2021
- CQC inspection report 6 September 2019
Where it is
- Ward
- Gaisford
- Parliamentary constituency
- East Worthing and Shoreham
- NHS integrated care board
- NHS Surrey and Sussex Integrated Care Board
- Setting
- Urban: nearer to a major town or city
- Neighbourhood deprivation
- Among the 50% least deprived areas in England
- Postcode district
- Home care in BN14 (11)
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Ward, NHS area and deprivation from ONS and NHS postcode data (postcodes.io, Open Government Licence). This is the agency's office; care is delivered in people's own homes around it.
Specialisms
Specialisms as registered with CQC.
Key points from CQC's visit
- KMX provides support for people with a learning disability and/or autistic people, some people also live with physical disabilities.
- We found the provider was meeting the values of ‘Right support, right care, right culture.’ Improvements had been made to the accessibility of care related records.
- The provider was now using an electronic care management system which allowed staff to access all appropriate documentation.
- People received care and support that was tailored to their individual needs, enabling them to have choice, control and independence in their daily lives, in line with the principles of Right Support, Right Care, Right Culture.
Inspected 29 April 2021; report published 8 June 2021. Quoted from the CQC report summary, Open Government Licence. Read the full report.
What the ratings tell you
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 119 of the 147 other agencies in West Sussex that CQC has rated.
Under CQC's newer scoring, its strongest area is Caring at 75% and its lowest is Well-led at 71%, averaging 74% overall.
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Where KMX Nursing Agency stands locally
- Rated Good. Across West Sussex, 94% of the 146 rated home care agencies are Good or Outstanding and 5 are Outstanding.
- Its rating (August 2025) is more recent than 77% of agency ratings in West Sussex.
- Registered with CQC in 2018: it has been registered longer than 65% of home care agencies in the area.
- It lists 7 specialisms with CQC; the typical agency in West Sussex lists 6.
Benchmarked against all CQC-registered home care agencies in West Sussex (Oct 2026).
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KMX Nursing Agency questions answered
- Is KMX Nursing Agency rated well for safety?
- By key question, CQC gave: 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 KMX Nursing Agency cost?
- KMX Nursing Agency hasn't shared a price list with us. Visiting care typically costs £28–£38 an hour (typical 2026 prices in West Sussex). Request a written quote and check what is charged on top.
- Who is the registered provider for KMX Nursing Agency?
- On CQC's register the provider is KMX Care Limited.
- What type of care does KMX Nursing Agency provide?
- Its CQC registration covers homecare agencies. Ask KMX Nursing Agency how it would adapt if needs increase.
- When was KMX Nursing Agency last inspected?
- 22 August 2025 is when the current rating was published, 1 year ago. Check what has changed since, such as the manager or staffing.
- Is KMX Nursing Agency registered for dementia care?
- Dementia appears among its CQC specialisms; ask about staff training and how care adapts as dementia progresses.
- Is KMX Nursing Agency a registered provider?
- Registered, yes: location 1-5319845181 on the Care Quality Commission register, listed as a home care agency and was rated Good overall in August 2025.
- What is KMX Nursing Agency's address?
- The agency works from C P L House, Ivy Arch Road, Worthing, BN14 8BX; ask which postcodes its carers cover.
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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.