Home care agency · Reading
Proactive Life South
Illustrative photo, not of Proactive Life South- Address
- Lodge Cottage, Bath Road, Hare Hatch, Reading, RG10 9SR
- Run by
- Med Care Home Services Limited (2 services)
- Service
- Home care agency, Supported living
- Registered with CQC
- April 2021 (5 years)
- Part of
- David Irandoust
- Registered manager
- Neha Bharti
- Company check
- Active, trading since 2011 (15 years), accounts up to date (Companies House 07651756)
- Last CQC check
- 14 Jun 2019
- Typical fees Estimated
- £30–£37 an hour for visiting care, weekdays; live-in £1,450–£1,770 a week. Estimated from prices published locally; not a quote. How we estimate
Registered to provide: Personal care
See this service on the CQC website · CQC location ID 1-10775473684
Proactive Life South at a glance
Proactive Life South in Reading is registered with the Care Quality Commission as a home care agency that also provides supported living, run by Med Care Home Services Limited. The service is registered to support adults of all ages and lists dementia, learning disabilities, mental health conditions and sight or hearing loss among its specialisms.
CQC rated it Good overall (June 2019). It is one of 51 CQC-registered home care agencies that have an office within 7 miles of Twyford; 27 of those are rated Good or Outstanding.
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 25 of the 31 other agencies in Wokingham that CQC has rated.
History with CQC
Registered in April 2021, it has 5 years on the CQC register.
Its only published overall rating so far is Good, from June 2019.
The rating is 7 years old. CQC decides when to return based on risk, so age alone is not a warning sign; still, ask who the manager is now.
Note that a different provider ran the service when it was rated; the current one has not been inspected here so far.
Budgeting for this agency
We estimate visits from Proactive Life South 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.
Council help is possible below £23,250 in savings: ask Wokingham Council for a free care needs assessment.
How it fits locally
There are 6 other agencies within 3 miles, 5 of them rated Good or Outstanding; the nearest is All Care Thames Valley, under 0.5 miles away.
15 of the 19 nearest rated agencies have a more recent rating than this one.
It sits in Thames ward, classed by ONS as smaller rural (nearer to a major town or city), among the 20% least deprived neighbourhoods in England. NHS services here are planned by NHS Thames Valley ICB.
Ownership and company checks
Proactive Life South is run by Med Care Home Services Limited (company 07651756), incorporated in 2011, 9 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.
Its registered business activity is social work without accommodation for older and disabled people (which includes home care).
Med Care Home Services Limited runs 2 CQC-registered services across 2 council areas; 2 of the 2 with a rating are Good or Outstanding (100%), against 88% for the same mix of services across England.
It trades under the David Irandoust brand, which covers 13 services run by 10 registered providers.
Ratings over time
- Jun 2019
- Today Rating 7 years old
CQC rating timeline for this address.
Map and area details
- Ward
- Thames
- Council
- Wokingham Borough Council · paying for care
- Parliamentary constituency
- Wokingham
- Integrated care board
- NHS Thames Valley Integrated Care Board
- Setting
- Smaller rural (nearer to a major town or city)
- Neighbourhood deprivation
- Among the 20% least deprived areas in England
- Postcode district
- Home care in RG10 (6)
See the wider area · How to get there · Base map © OpenStreetMap
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 five key questions
- Safe28 of 32 in Wokingham
- Effective27 of 32 in Wokingham
- Caring28 of 32 in Wokingham
- Responsive29 of 32 in Wokingham
- Well-led26 of 32 in Wokingham
Source: CQC, published 14 June 2019. Under each rating: how many agencies in Wokingham share it.
Needs it is registered to meet
From the CQC register; ask how each need is met in practice.
Family reviews
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Proactive Life South against its area
- Rated Good. Across Wokingham, 91% of the 32 rated home care agencies are Good or Outstanding and 3 are Outstanding.
- Its rating (June 2019) is more recent than 28% of agency ratings in Wokingham.
- Registered with CQC in 2021: it has been registered longer than 52% of home care agencies in the area.
- It lists 6 specialisms with CQC; the typical agency in Wokingham lists 5.
Compared with every CQC-registered home care agency in Wokingham. Source: CQC register, Oct 2026.
Other agencies close by
Guides for families
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- 121 Health&Care LimitedMar 2026 · 5.1 miles
Proactive Life South: common questions
- Can Proactive Life South care for someone with dementia?
- Its registration includes dementia. Useful questions: how many staff hold dementia training, and how is a bad day handled?
- When was Proactive Life South last inspected?
- The rating now shown was published on 14 June 2019, 7 years ago. Ask what has changed since then, for example in management or staffing.
- Where is Proactive Life South?
- Lodge Cottage, Bath Road, Hare Hatch, Reading, RG10 9SR. That is the office; visits happen in your own home, so confirm your area is covered.
- Is Proactive Life South regulated by the Care Quality Commission?
- Registered, yes: location 1-10775473684 on the Care Quality Commission register, listed as a home care agency and was rated Good overall in June 2019.
- How much does care from Proactive Life South cost?
- We don't have published prices from Proactive Life South yet. Visiting care typically costs around £32–£34 an hour (typical 2026 prices across England). Get the quote in writing, including any extra charges.
- How did Proactive Life South score on each CQC key question?
- The five CQC areas: Safe: Good; Effective: Good; Caring: Good; Responsive: Good; Well-led: Good. Safe and Well-led tend to say most about day-to-day reliability.
- What kind of care can Proactive Life South offer?
- CQC lists Proactive Life South under: homecare agencies, supported living. Check which of these it is actively providing now.
- Which provider runs Proactive Life South?
- CQC lists Med Care Home Services Limited as the provider responsible for Proactive Life South.
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