Oakridge House
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
Not yet rated · on the register 7 years
- Sensory impairments
- Caring for adults under 65 yrs
- Dementia
- +6 more
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
Mental health care in the Buckinghamshire council area
There are 87 mental health care services in the Buckinghamshire council area registered with the Care Quality Commission. 36 carry a published CQC rating, and 31 of those are rated Good or Outstanding. The other 51 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. The council paid providers £23.00 an hour in 2023-24, the 34th highest of 150 councils in England and 9% above the £21.19 median. That is 87 of the 144 home care services across the Buckinghamshire local authority. Your council decides what care you are entitled to and what it pays towards, so this is the area that matters for funding.
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Living Horizon
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
Not yet rated · on the register 13 years
- 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
Charterhouse Solutions Limited Trading As In Home Care Beaconsfield
Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire
Not yet rated · on the register 1 year
- Sensory impairments
- Caring for adults under 65 yrs
- Dementia
- +3 more
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
Collaborative Care Solutions
Slough, Buckinghamshire
Not yet rated · on the register 3 years
- 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
Caremark (Chiltern & Three Rivers)
Chesham, Buckinghamshire
GoodCQC, Jan 2019
- Caring for children (0 - 18yrs)
- Sensory impairments
- Services for everyone
- +5 more
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
Mgek Consortium Group Ltd
Slough, Buckinghamshire
Newly registered, not yet rated
- Caring for adults under 65 yrs
- Learning disabilities
- Mental health conditions
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
Bloomscare Ltd
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
Not yet rated · on the register 1 year
- Caring for children (0 - 18yrs)
- Sensory impairments
- Caring for adults under 65 yrs
- +6 more
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
Nurture Inc Limited
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
Not yet rated · on the register 1 year
- Caring for children (0 - 18yrs)
- Sensory impairments
- Learning disabilities
- +4 more
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
Radfield Home Care Wycombe, Beaconsfield & South Bucks
Bourne End, Buckinghamshire
GoodCQC, Jul 2021
- Sensory impairments
- Caring for adults under 65 yrs
- Dementia
- +3 more
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
Buckingham Home Care Limited
Buckingham, Buckinghamshire
Requires improvementCQC, Jan 2023
- 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
Caremark (Aylesbury & Wycombe)
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
GoodCQC, Feb 2020
- Sensory impairments
- Services for everyone
- Dementia
- +3 more
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
Aston Court
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
Not yet rated · on the register 1 year
- Sensory impairments
- Dementia
- Mental health conditions
- +2 more
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
Angels Care Agency Limited
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
GoodCQC, Feb 2022one area rated lower
- Caring for children (0 - 18yrs)
- Caring for adults under 65 yrs
- Dementia
- +3 more
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
Smart Choice Healthcare Ltd
Leighton Buzzard, Buckinghamshire
GoodCQC, Nov 2022
- Caring for adults under 65 yrs
- Dementia
- Mental health conditions
- +2 more
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
My Liberty Care Ltd
Buckingham, Buckinghamshire
Newly registered, not yet rated
- Sensory impairments
- Caring for adults under 65 yrs
- Dementia
- +3 more
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
Mental health care in Buckinghamshire: questions people ask
- How much does mental health care cost in the Buckinghamshire council area?
- Agencies in the Buckinghamshire council area quote by the hour after an assessment, so there is no single price. 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. Buckinghamshire paid £23.00 an hour for the care it commissioned in 2023-24.
- Will the council pay for mental health care in the Buckinghamshire council area?
- Buckinghamshire 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 £23.00 an hour in 2023-24, the 34th 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 mental health care services in the Buckinghamshire council area are rated best?
- 36 of the 87 services in the Buckinghamshire council area carry a published CQC rating and 31 of those, 86%, are rated Good or Outstanding. That is below the 89% across England. 4 are rated Outstanding, the top grade, among them Right at Home High Wycombe and District, Bluebird Care Burnham, Gerrards Cross & High Wycombe and Westminster Homecare Limited – South Bucks. A rating describes the service on the day it was inspected, so check the report date as well as the word.
- Is the Buckinghamshire council area well served for mental health care?
- 87 of the 144 home care services in the Buckinghamshire council area are registered to support this, 60%, against 59% across England. That is about average. Registration is permission rather than specialisation, so it sets the size of the list rather than its quality.
- How do I choose a mental health care agency in the Buckinghamshire council area?
- 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. 51 of the 87 services in the Buckinghamshire council area 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.