Home care agency · Worcester
Simply The Best Care Ltd
Typical fee here £30–£37 an hour Estimate
Free · 2 minutes · No obligation · 34,334 registered providers compared
Illustrative photo, not of Simply The Best Care Ltd- Address
- County House, St. Marys Street, Worcester, WR1 1HB
- Run by
- Simply The Best Care Ltd
- Type of provider
- Independent (private company)
- Service
- Home care agency
- Dementia
- Registered with CQC to support people living with dementia
- Registered with CQC
- December 2020 (5 years)
- Registered manager
- Manjit Kaur Winkett
- Company check
- Active, trading since 2020 (6 years), accounts up to date (Companies House 12798360)
- Last CQC check
- 23 Jul 2025
- 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 activities: Personal care
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Open CQC's full report · CQC location ID 1-9960242615
About this agency
Simply The Best Care Ltd is a CQC-registered home care agency in Worcester. Its CQC registration covers adults of all ages, including people living with dementia, physical disabilities, learning disabilities, mental health conditions, sight or hearing loss and drug or alcohol problems.
At its most recent rating, CQC judged it Good overall (July 2025). It is one of 35 CQC-registered home care agencies that have an office within 7 miles of Worcester; 25 of those are rated Good or Outstanding.
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 Eclipse HomeCare (Worcester), under 0.5 miles away.
Its rating is more recent than any of the 16 nearest rated agencies.
It sits in Arboretum ward, classed by ONS as urban (nearer to a major town or city), among the 40% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. NHS services here are planned by NHS Herefordshire and Worcestershire ICB.
What CQC's inspectors reported
- The service is registered to provide support to older people, younger people, people with dementia and people with a physical disability.
- Not everyone who used the service received personal care.
- This is help with tasks related to personal hygiene and eating.
Inspected 5 May 2023; report published 10 June 2023. From the regulator's own summary (Open Government Licence). Read the full report.
Budgeting for this agency
We estimate visits from Simply The Best Care Ltd 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.
If savings are under the upper limit (£23,250 in England), Worcestershire Council may pay part of the cost after a free care needs assessment.
History with CQC
CQC registration dates from December 2020, so the service has been operating for around 5 years under its current registration.
CQC has published 3 overall ratings for it (2023–2025), starting at Good and staying Good every time.
Needs it is registered to meet
Registration details from CQC.
CQC ratings, area by area
- Safe72% score79 of 89 in Worcestershire
- Effective75% score85 of 89 in Worcestershire
- Caring75% score76 of 89 in Worcestershire
- Responsive75% score80 of 89 in Worcestershire
- Well-led75% score69 of 89 in Worcestershire
Ratings from CQC's most recent report, published 23 July 2025. Under each rating: how many agencies in Worcestershire share it.
Reading Simply The Best Care Ltd's CQC ratings
All five areas CQC looks at are rated Good for Simply The Best Care Ltd: no single area stands out above or below the rest.
For leadership (Well-led), it shares its Good rating with 68 of the 88 other agencies in Worcestershire that CQC has rated.
Under CQC's newer scoring, its strongest area is Caring at 75% and its lowest is Safe at 72%, averaging 74% overall.
Scores behind the rating
CQC's single assessment framework gives every quality statement a score out of 4, then reports each key question as a percentage. Averaged across the five areas, Simply The Best Care Ltd scores 74%.
Safe 72%
- Learning culture2 · Some shortfalls
- 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 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 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
How to read the numbers: 4 exceptional, 3 good, 2 some shortfalls, 1 significant shortfalls. Published by CQC, assessed 10 July 2025, published 13 March 2025 under the Open Government Licence; a blank score means the statement was carried over unchanged.
Past CQC ratings
- Jun 2023
- Mar 2025
- Today Rating 1 year old
Overall ratings CQC has published for this location, oldest first.
CQC documents
- CQC inspection report 10 June 2023
The neighbourhood
- Ward
- Arboretum
- Parliamentary constituency
- Worcester
- NHS integrated care board
- NHS Herefordshire and Worcestershire Integrated Care Board
- ONS area type
- Urban (nearer to a major town or city)
- Neighbourhood deprivation
- Among the 40% most deprived areas in England
- Postcode district
- Home care in WR1 (10)
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Area details from ONS and NHS postcode data via postcodes.io (Open Government Licence). Care happens at home, not here: this is where the agency is run from.
The registered provider
Simply The Best Care Ltd is run by Simply The Best Care Ltd (company 12798360), incorporated in 2020.
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).
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Simply The Best Care Ltd: common questions
- When was Simply The Best Care Ltd last inspected?
- The rating now shown was published on 23 July 2025, 1 year ago. Ask what has changed since then, for example in management or staffing.
- Is Simply The Best Care Ltd a registered provider?
- Simply The Best Care Ltd is on the CQC register as a home care agency (ID 1-9960242615) and was rated Good overall in July 2025.
- Is Simply The Best Care Ltd registered for dementia care?
- Its registration includes dementia. Useful questions: how many staff hold dementia training, and how is a bad day handled?
- How did Simply The Best Care Ltd score on each CQC key question?
- The five CQC areas: Safe: Good; Effective: Good; Caring: Good; Responsive: Good; Well-led: Good. Read Safe and Well-led first; they say most about reliability.
- Where is Simply The Best Care Ltd based?
- The agency's base is County House, St. Marys Street, Worcester, WR1 1HB. Confirm that its carers travel to your area.
- What are Simply The Best Care Ltd's fees?
- Simply The Best Care Ltd hasn't shared a price list with us. Visiting care typically costs around £32–£34 an hour (typical 2026 prices across England). Get the quote in writing, including any extra charges.
- What type of care does Simply The Best Care Ltd provide?
- Its CQC registration covers homecare agencies. Ask Simply The Best Care Ltd how it would adapt if needs increase.
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