Friars Mead
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Quality care home providing excellent services.
- Care home
- Friars Mead
- Location
- WD4 8DR
- Care types
- Residential
- CQC rating
- Requires Improvement
- Latest CQC inspection
- 8 January 2020
- Beds
- 27
- CQC location ID
- 1-110297850
Rated 4.7/5 from 29 Google reviews.
What families say
Families praise Friars Mead for its warm and welcoming atmosphere, with friendly and caring staff who go out of their way to make residents feel at home. The care home's small size is seen as a strength, creating a sense of community and allowing for a high staff-to-resident ratio, which enables staff to provide…
What the CQC says
Rated Requires improvement by the CQC on 6 February 2026.
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
- Good — 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
- Requires improvement — Is the home well run, open and always improving?
What has changed
- Overall rating unchanged at Requires improvement since January 2019.
- Improved: Safe (Requires improvement → Good), Effective (Requires improvement → Good), Responsive (Requires improvement → Good).
- Still needs work: Well-led — Requires improvement.
Source: Care Quality Commission — read the full CQC report. Last checked by CareFinder on 15 September 2026.
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