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Orchard House Care Home

107 Money Bank, Wisbech, PE13 2JF · Cambridgeshire · East of England

67 beds · operated by RCH Care Homes Limited

CQC overall rating
Requires improvement4 Dec 2020rating 3+ yrs old

Diligence verdict

Rated Requires improvement overall, and the rating is 5 years old, and 2 of this operator's 9 rated homes are below Good.

Below Good on
SafeRequires improvement4 Dec 2020rating 3+ yrs old
EffectiveRequires improvement19 Nov 2019rating 3+ yrs old
CaringRequires improvement19 Nov 2019rating 3+ yrs old
ResponsiveRequires improvement19 Nov 2019rating 3+ yrs old
Well-ledRequires improvement4 Dec 2020rating 3+ yrs old
Age of rating
5 years old — published 4 Dec 2020. CQC has not re-inspected since; a re-inspection could move it in either direction.
Operator's wider portfolio
2 of 9 of RCH Care Homes Limited's rated homes are Requires improvement or Inadequate.

Verbatim CQC ratings, each dated · data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

The five key questions

Key questionRatingPublished
SafeRequires improvementrating 3+ yrs old4 Dec 2020
EffectiveRequires improvementrating 3+ yrs old19 Nov 2019
CaringRequires improvementrating 3+ yrs old19 Nov 2019
ResponsiveRequires improvementrating 3+ yrs old19 Nov 2019
Well-ledRequires improvementrating 3+ yrs old4 Dec 2020

Ratings verbatim as published by CQC. Key questions can carry different dates when CQC re-inspects only part of a service.

Data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

Same operator — 8 other locations

Other active services registered to RCH Care Homes Limited. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.

NameOverall rating (published)Local authority
Brentwood Care CentreGood3 Jun 2026Essex
Maidstone Care CentreRequires improvement3 Mar 2026Kent
Manton Heights Care CentreGood16 Jun 2026Bedford
Park View Care CentreGood19 May 2026Kent
Queens Court Care HomeGood24 Oct 2020rating 3+ yrs oldEssex
Romford Nursing Care CentreGood12 Nov 2021rating 3+ yrs oldHavering
Withens Nursing HomeGood21 Oct 2021rating 3+ yrs oldKent
Woodlands Care CentreGood21 May 2019rating 3+ yrs oldCambridgeshire

Data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

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Provenance & registration
Registered with CQC
31 Jan 2011
Beds
67
Sector
Social Care Org
On CQC’s site
cqc.org.uk/location/1-118135549

Every rating on this page is shown verbatim as CQC published it, each with its own publication date. Data as at 11 Jul 2026as published by CQC, bulk files of 01–08 Jul 2026 · source: CQC · data & methods.