Shearwater Care Home
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Shearwater Care Home is located in Portsmouth, Hampshire, with the postcode PO4 8QW. It offers residential care services to its residents. The care home has…
- Care home
- Shearwater Care Home
- Location
- Portsmouth, Hampshire, Portsmouth, PO4 8QW
- Care types
- Residential, Dementia
- CQC rating
- Good
- Latest CQC inspection
- 19 March 2021
- Beds
- 60
- Funding accepted
- Self Funding (Private), Local Authority, Local Authority with Top Up, NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC)
- CQC location ID
- 1-122824326
Rated 4/5 from 9 Google reviews.
What families say
Families praise the staff at Shearwater Care Home for being lovely, helpful, and caring. The home is also described as quiet and clean with a friendly atmosphere. However, some families have raised concerns about understaffing, which is a recurring theme across the reviews.
What the CQC says
Rated Good by the CQC on 26 June 2019.
Good — the service is performing well and meeting CQC’s expectations. 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
- Good — Is the home well run, open and always improving?
What has changed
- Overall rating improved from Requires improvement to Good (previously rated July 2018).
- Improved: Safe (Requires improvement → Good), Effective (Requires improvement → Good), Well-led (Requires improvement → Good).
Source: Care Quality Commission — read the full CQC report. Last checked by CareFinder on 13 September 2026.
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