Outstanding home care in Totnes
2 home care services in Totnes are rated Outstanding by the Care Quality Commission. That is 2 of the 4 with a published rating, too few for a fair comparison with the national figure. They are New Key and CareYourWay Homecare Ltd. All of them have at least one of the five key questions rated lower than the overall rating, which the headline hides. The oldest of these ratings was published in March 2019 and 1 is more than five years old, so check when the service was last inspected. 2 home care services in Totnes have no rating yet, usually because they have not been inspected since registering. That is not a low rating.
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Outstanding home care in Totnes: questions people ask
- Which home care services in Totnes are rated Outstanding?
- 2 home care services are rated Outstanding by the Care Quality Commission: New Key and CareYourWay Homecare Ltd.
- Is an Outstanding rating from the CQC enough to go on?
- It is a sound starting point, but look underneath it. The CQC rates five key questions (safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led) and the overall rating can be Outstanding with one of them lower. That applies to 2 of the 2 services on this page. Read the part of the report that matters most to you, and check how old it is.
- What does it mean if a home care service in Totnes has no rating?
- 2 home care services in Totnes have not been rated by the Care Quality Commission. A new service waits for its first inspection, so an absent rating is not a mark against it. Ask the service when it registered and whether an inspection is due.