Routes Healthcare DCA
Unit 5, Blackpool, FY3 9LT · Blackpool · North West
CQC’s records also hold a deregistered registration with this name at this postcode: Routes Healthcare DCA, Routes Healthcare (North) Limited, deregistered 19 Mar 2014.
What the record says
Rated Good overall, but the rating is 5 years old, and 2 of this operator's 8 rated services are below Good.
- Age of rating
- 5 years old — published 10 Dec 2020, and no newer rating had been published by 1 Sep 2026. A re-inspection could move it in either direction.
- This operator's rated services
- Of Routes Healthcare (North) Limited's 8 rated services, 2 are below Good — not this one. See the operator.
Verbatim CQC ratings, each dated · data as at 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
- Care type
- Care at home (visits) · Nursing agency
- Registered with CQC
- 17 Jan 2014
- Run by
- Routes Healthcare (North) Limited
- Part of
- Routes Healthcare · 11 services
- Phone
- 01253922128
- Website
- www.routeshealthcare.com
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 at home (visits) · Nursing agency
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Data as published by CQC to 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
The five key questions
| Key question | Rating | Published |
|---|---|---|
| Safe | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 10 Dec 2020 |
| Effective | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 13 Feb 2018 |
| Caring | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 13 Feb 2018 |
| Responsive | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 13 Feb 2018 |
| Well-led | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 10 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 published by CQC to 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
Same operator — 9 other locations
Other active services registered to Routes Healthcare (North) Limited. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.
| Name | Overall rating (published) | Local authority |
|---|---|---|
| Just a Little Company | Not yet rated | Derbyshire |
| Routes Healthcare - Kirklees | Good, published 19 Feb 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Calderdale |
| Routes Healthcare Burnley | Good, published 18 Jul 2023rating 3+ yrs old | Lancashire |
| Routes Healthcare Merseyside | Not yet rated | Liverpool |
| Routes Healthcare Preston | Good, published 19 May 2025 | Lancashire |
| Routes Healthcare Rochdale | Requires improvement, published 6 Dec 2023 | Rochdale |
| Routes Healthcare Sunderland | Good, published 4 Jul 2023rating 3+ yrs old | Sunderland |
| Routes Healthcare Tameside | Requires improvement, published 12 Nov 2025 | Tameside |
| Routes Healthcare Wirral | Good, published 5 Jul 2023rating 3+ yrs old | Wirral |
Data as published by CQC to 1 Sep 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?
More on what actually decides a good home-care agency at choosing home care.
- What to ask a home care agencyContinuity of carer, missed visits, who answers at 8pm — the questions that actually decide it.
- 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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Nearest first — a place to look around, not a ranking. Other home-care agencies within 5 miles, registered for at least one of the same groups this service supports. Distance is straight line between registered addresses — for an agency that is its office, not where the care happens, so ask whether they cover the postcode. Not an assessment of anyone’s needs.
- Embrace Home Care Limitedabout 0.1 miles · BlackpoolGood, published 2 Mar 2026
- 1 Homecare Blackpoolabout 0.4 miles · BlackpoolGood, published 21 Aug 2021rating 3+ yrs old
- Alcedo Care Lancaster and Wyreabout 1.1 miles · BlackpoolGood, published 8 Apr 2022rating 3+ yrs old
- Alcedo Care North West Lancashireabout 1.1 miles · BlackpoolGood, published 14 Jul 2023rating 3+ yrs old
- Sector
- Social Care Org
- On CQC’s site
- cqc.org.uk/location/1-1193270629
Every rating on this page is shown verbatim as CQC published it, each with its own publication date. Data as at 1 Sep 2026 — as published by CQC, bulk files of 01 Sep 2026 · source: CQC · data & methods.