Marches Home Care Services
Leominster, Herefordshire, County of
GoodCQC, Apr 2019
- Sensory impairments
- Caring for adults under 65 yrs
- Dementia
- +4 more
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
Elderly care in Leominster
There are 6 elderly care services in Leominster registered with the Care Quality Commission. 5 carry a published CQC rating, and 5 of those are rated Good or Outstanding. The other 1 are unrated, which usually means they have not been inspected since registering rather than that anything is wrong. Privately arranged care is quoted by the hour, and the Homecare Association puts the minimum a provider must charge in 2026-27 at £34.42, or about £481.88 a week for two half-hour visits a day. Adult social care in Leominster is arranged by County of Herefordshire, which paid providers £24.35 an hour in 2023-24, the 21st highest of 150 councils in England and 15% above the £21.19 median. That is 6 of the 8 home care services in Leominster. Registration sets what a service is allowed to provide. It does not say how well it does it, so read the inspection report and ring two or three before you decide.
What home care costs in Leominster
None of the 6 services in Leominster have published their rates here yet. Ring two or three and ask. Most will quote over the phone.
For comparison, the Homecare Association puts the minimum sustainable price at £34.42 an hour for 2026-27. That covers careworker pay at the statutory minimum for all working time including travel, mileage, wage-related costs, and the minimum cost of running a compliant care business.
Herefordshire, County of paid independent agencies a median of £24.35 an hour for the home care it commissioned in 2023-24, against the £34.42 the Homecare Association says it costs to deliver in 2026-27. What every council pays →
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Abel Care and Support Ltd
Leominster, Herefordshire, County of
OutstandingCQC, Feb 2024one area rated lower
- Sensory impairments
- Caring for adults under 65 yrs
- Learning disabilities
- +1 more
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
Agincare UK Leominster
Leominster, Herefordshire, County of
Not yet rated · on the register 14 years
- Caring for adults over 65 yrs
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
Services for Independent Living
Leominster, Herefordshire, County of
GoodCQC, Apr 2024
- Caring for children (0 - 18yrs)
- Sensory impairments
- Caring for adults under 65 yrs
- +5 more
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
Kelsam Support Services Ltd
Leominster, Herefordshire, County of
GoodCQC, Sept 2021
- Sensory impairments
- Caring for adults under 65 yrs
- Learning disabilities
- +3 more
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
Mortimer Homecare Limited
Leominster, Herefordshire, County of
GoodCQC, Sept 2019one area rated lower
- Sensory impairments
- Caring for adults under 65 yrs
- Dementia
- +2 more
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
Elderly care in Leominster: questions people ask
- How much does elderly care cost in Leominster?
- None of the 6 services in Leominster publish a price, so you get a figure by ringing them: most quote by the hour after an assessment. The Homecare Association calculates that a provider needs to charge at least £34.42 an hour in 2026-27 to pay careworkers the statutory minimum for all their working time and run a compliant business. Two half-hour visits a day at that rate is roughly £481.88 a week. County of Herefordshire paid £24.35 an hour for the care it commissioned in 2023-24.
- Will the council pay for elderly care in Leominster?
- County of Herefordshire can arrange and fund care after a needs assessment, which is free and which anyone can request. What you contribute depends on a separate financial assessment. It paid providers an average of £24.35 an hour in 2023-24, the 21st highest of 150 councils in England. The Homecare Association's minimum sustainable price is £34.42 for 2026-27. Those are different years, so treat the pair as context rather than a like-for-like gap. What a council pays shapes which agencies will take council-funded work at all.
- Which elderly care services in Leominster are rated best?
- 5 of the 6 services in Leominster carry a published CQC rating and 5 of those, 100%, are rated Good or Outstanding. 1 is rated Outstanding, the top grade: Abel Care and Support Ltd. A rating describes the service on the day it was inspected, so check the report date as well as the word.
- How do I choose a elderly care agency in Leominster?
- Start with what the regulator publishes, then ask what it cannot tell you: who would actually visit, whether it is the same carer each time, what happens when that person is ill, and how long a call really lasts. 1 of the 6 services in Leominster carry no published verdict at all, so for those the questions are the only evidence you have. Every service here comes from the public register, and contacting one costs nothing: we take no fee and no commission.