Swale House Ness M Care Services Cambridgeshire

Costs to expect

We estimate visits from Swale House Ness M Care Services Cambridgeshire 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 Peterborough Council for a free care needs assessment.

Choice nearby

Choice is wide here: the 25 nearest other agencies are all within 3 miles, 12 of them rated Good or Outstanding, and the closest is Deafblind UK, under 0.5 miles away.

2 of the 13 nearest rated agencies have a more recent rating than this one.

It sits in Gunthorpe ward, classed by ONS as urban (nearer to a major town or city), among the 20% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. NHS services here are planned by NHS Central East ICB.

Strengths and weak spots in the ratings

Area by area, Safe and Well-led are rated below Good; 3 other areas are Good.

Across Peterborough, 7 of 53 rated agencies are Requires improvement for Safe (13%), while 6 of 53 rated agencies are Requires improvement for Well-led (11%).

The Safe and Well-led findings are the part of the report to read closely; ask the manager what has been put right.

Track record

Swale House Ness M Care Services Cambridgeshire has been registered with CQC since May 2023, about 3 years.

CQC has published 4 overall ratings for it (2016–2022), starting at Good; it has gone up 1 and down 2 times, and is now Requires improvement.

The rating is 3 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.

Who runs it

Swale House Ness M Care Services Cambridgeshire is run by Ness M Care Services Ltd (company 07025728), incorporated in 2009, 13 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 residential care for older and disabled people.

Ness M Care Services Ltd runs 4 CQC-registered services across 3 council areas; 1 of the 2 with a rating are Good or Outstanding (50%), against 88% for the same mix of services across England.