Oak Lodge
Lordsleaze Lane, Chard, TA20 2HN · Somerset · South West
What the record says
Rated Good overall, but the rating is 3 years old, and 5 of this operator's 11 rated homes are below Good.
- Age of rating
- 3 years old — published 15 Sep 2022. CQC has not re-inspected since; a re-inspection could move it in either direction.
- Operator's wider portfolio
- 5 of 11 of Harbour Healthcare Ltd's rated homes are Requires improvement or Inadequate. See the operator.
Verbatim CQC ratings, each dated · data as at 8 Jul 2026 · source: CQC
- Care type
- Care home with nursing
- Beds
- 47
- Registered with CQC
- 1 Jul 2021
- Run by
- Harbour Healthcare Ltd
- Part of
- Harbour Healthcare · 38 services
- Phone
- 0146067258
Contact details as recorded by CQC — we don’t hold fees, vacancies or waiting lists, so those are worth asking about directly.
Who this service supports
The groups this service is registered with CQC to support. Registration says who a service may care for — it is not a quality judgement, and it is not a recommendation.
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Care home with nursing
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Data as published by CQC to 8 Jul 2026 · source: CQC
The five key questions
| Key question | Rating | Published |
|---|---|---|
| Safe | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 15 Sep 2022 |
| Effective | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 15 Sep 2022 |
| Caring | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 15 Sep 2022 |
| Responsive | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 15 Sep 2022 |
| Well-led | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 15 Sep 2022 |
Ratings verbatim as published by CQC. Key questions can carry different dates when CQC re-inspects only part of a service.
Data as published by CQC to 8 Jul 2026 · source: CQC
Same operator — 11 other locations
Other active services registered to Harbour Healthcare Ltd. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.
| Name | Overall rating (published) | Local authority |
|---|---|---|
| Bentley Manor | Good, published 20 Feb 2024 | Cheshire East |
| Clement Court | Requires improvement, published 27 Apr 2026 | Stoke-on-Trent |
| Devonshire House and Lodge | Good, published 23 Oct 2024 | Devon |
| Elburton Heights | Good, published 17 Mar 2023rating 3+ yrs old | Plymouth |
| Fleetwood Heights | Requires improvement, published 11 Feb 2026 | Calderdale |
| Gotton Manor | Good, published 13 May 2022rating 3+ yrs old | Somerset |
| Hilltop Court Nursing Home | Requires improvement, published 27 Mar 2025 | Stockport |
| Peel Moat | Requires improvement, published 23 Mar 2024 | Stockport |
| Regency Hall | Requires improvement, published 10 Jun 2026 | Derbyshire |
| The Old Vicarage Nursing and Residential Care Centre | Good, published 13 May 2026 | Warrington |
| Treetops Court Care Home | Good, published 4 Jun 2026 | Staffordshire |
Data as published by CQC to 8 Jul 2026 · source: CQC
CQC publishes registrations and ratings. It holds nothing at all about fees, current vacancies, staffing levels, or the building itself — there is no field anywhere for door widths, hoists, wet rooms or ground-floor rooms. So no site, including this one, can tell you those. They are worth asking directly — the number is above.
- What are the fees, and what do they not include?
- Do you have a vacancy now, and would you hold a room?
- How many staff are on at night, and how are transfers staffed?
- What change in someone’s needs would mean they had to move, and can I see that in the contract?
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- Take the visit checklistWhat to look for and the questions to ask when you visit — the things a rating cannot tell you.
- Coming out of hospitalIf this follows a hospital stay: the discharge decision, reablement, and what to ask the ward.
- Ask the council for a needs assessmentFree, whatever the savings, and the formal route to arranged care and funding.
- Understand who paysThe means test, what happens to the home, and NHS Continuing Healthcare.
- How to read this ratingWhat the words mean, the five key questions, and why the date matters.
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Other services in Chardregistered for at least one of the same groups this service supports, listed with the strongest CQC ratings first. A place to look around — not a recommendation, and not an assessment of anyone’s needs.
- Eleighwater HouseChard · 8 bedsGood, published 11 Mar 2024
- SunnymeadeChard · 50 bedsGood, published 22 Sep 2021rating 3+ yrs old
- Sunnyside Care HomeChard · 14 bedsGood, published 20 Oct 2017rating 3+ yrs old
- Yew Tree Cottage Residential HomeChard · 7 bedsGood, published 20 May 2026
- Sector
- Social Care Org
- On CQC’s site
- cqc.org.uk/location/1-10852363984
Every rating on this page is shown verbatim as CQC published it, each with its own publication date. Data as at 8 Jul 2026 — as published by CQC, bulk files of 01–08 Jul 2026 · source: CQC · data & methods.