Lakeside Watermead Care Home
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Lakeside Watermead Care Home is a family-owned, purpose-built facility nestled within 80 acres of parkland beside a tranquil wildlife lake in Watermead…
- Care home
- Lakeside Watermead Care Home
- Location
- Aylesbury, HP19 0WH, Aylesbury, HP19 0WH
- Care types
- Nursing, Residential, Dementia
- CQC rating
- Requires Improvement
- Latest CQC inspection
- 11 October 2019
- Beds
- 49
- Funding accepted
- Self Funding (Private), Local Authority, Local Authority with Top Up, NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC)
- Phone
- 01296 393166
- CQC location ID
- 1-18041846082
Rated 4.4/5 from 13 Google reviews.
What families say
Families have had varied experiences at Lakeside Watermead Care Home, with some reporting concerns about staffing levels and resident care, while others have been very pleased with the friendly and warm-hearted staff. The home's location and environment are widely praised as lovely and welcoming. Some families have…
What the CQC says
Rated Requires improvement by the CQC on 21 May 2025.
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
- Requires improvement — 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 improved from Inadequate to Requires improvement (previously rated March 2019).
- Improved: Safe (Inadequate → Requires improvement), Effective (Inadequate → Good), Caring (Requires improvement → Good), Responsive (Requires improvement → Good), Well-led (Inadequate → Requires improvement).
- Still needs work: Safe — Requires improvement; Well-led — Requires improvement.
Source: Care Quality Commission — read the full CQC report. Last checked by CareFinder on 20 September 2026.
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