Essex Care Consortium - Colchester
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Essex Care Consortium - Colchester is a residential care facility located in Birch, Colchester, Essex. It offers accommodations and regulated care services to…
- Care home
- Essex Care Consortium - Colchester
- Location
- Maldon Road, Birch, Colchester, Essex, CO2 0NU, Colchester, CO2 0NU
- Care types
- Residential, Dementia
- CQC rating
- Requires Improvement
- Latest CQC inspection
- 22 November 2023
- Beds
- 20
- Funding accepted
- Self Funding (Private), Local Authority, Local Authority with Top Up, NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC)
- Phone
- 01206 330308
- CQC location ID
- 1-111168933
Rated 3.4/5 from 13 Google reviews.
What families say
Families generally report that Essex Care Consortium - Colchester provides good care and has happy clients, with some describing the services as professional and well-run. However, a recurring concern is the condition of the road leading to the care home, which is described as poor. Some families have expressed a…
What the CQC says
Rated Requires improvement by the CQC on 19 September 2024.
Requires improvement — the service is not performing as well as it should and CQC has told it how to improve. What this rating means
The five key questions
- Safe
- Inadequate — Are people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?
- Effective
- Good — Does the care achieve good outcomes and follow best practice?
- Caring
- Good — Are staff kind, respectful and compassionate?
- Responsive
- Good — Is care organised around each person’s needs?
- Well-led
- Inadequate — Is the home well run, open and always improving?
What has changed
- Still needs work: Safe — Inadequate; Well-led — Inadequate.
Source: Care Quality Commission — read the full CQC report. Last checked by CareFinder on 9 September 2026.
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