Lavender Fields - Care Home with Nursing
No 1 Lavender Fields, Hitchin, SG5 2JB · Hertfordshire · East of England
What the record says
Rated Requires improvement overall, and the rating is 4 years old, and 12 of this operator's 46 rated services are below Good.
- Below Good on
- EffectiveRequires improvement, published 26 Mar 2022rating 3+ yrs oldWell-ledRequires improvement, published 26 Mar 2022rating 3+ yrs old
- Age of rating
- 4 years old — published 26 Mar 2022. CQC has not re-inspected since; a re-inspection could move it in either direction.
- Operator's wider portfolio
- 12 of 46 of Leonard Cheshire Disability's rated services 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
- 10
- Registered with CQC
- 12 Jan 2011
- Run by
- Leonard Cheshire Disability
- Part of
- Leonard Cheshire Disability · 49 services
- Phone
- 01462454508
- Website
- www.leonardcheshire.org
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 | 26 Mar 2022 |
| Effective | Requires improvementrating 3+ yrs old | 26 Mar 2022 |
| Caring | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 16 Nov 2018 |
| Responsive | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 16 Nov 2018 |
| Well-led | Requires improvementrating 3+ yrs old | 26 Mar 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 — 48 other locations
Other active services registered to Leonard Cheshire Disability. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.
| Name | Overall rating (published) | Local authority |
|---|---|---|
| Agnes Court - Care Home with Nursing Physical Disabilities | Good, published 16 Mar 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Oxfordshire |
| Appley Cliff - Care Home Physical Disabilities | Good, published 3 Sep 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Isle of Wight |
| Appley Community Support | Good, published 17 May 2022rating 3+ yrs old | Isle of Wight |
| Athol House - Care Home Physical Disabilities | Good, published 3 Aug 2023 | Southwark |
| Avila House | Good, published 29 Oct 2025 | West Sussex |
| Bells Piece - Care Home Learning Disabilities | Requires improvement, published 20 Mar 2026 | Surrey |
| Bells Piece Supported Living Service | Good, published 31 Aug 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Surrey |
| Birnbeck House - Care Home Learning Disabilities | Not yet rated | North Somerset |
| Bradbury House - Care Home with Nursing Physical Disabilities | Good, published 11 Jun 2026 | County Durham |
| Bradbury Wing - Care Home with Nursing Physical Disabilities | Good, published 2 Jun 2026 | Newcastle upon Tyne |
| Cheltenham Supported Living | Good, published 8 Nov 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Gloucestershire |
| Chipstead Lake - Care Home Physical Disabilities | Requires improvement, published 23 Dec 2024 | Kent |
…and 36 more. See the full group view.
Data as published by CQC to 8 Jul 2026 · source: CQC
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- 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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- Coming out of hospitalIf this follows a hospital stay: the discharge decision, reablement, and what to ask the ward.
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- Understand who paysThe means test, what happens to the home, and NHS Continuing Healthcare.
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Other services in Hitchinregistered 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.
- 17 Walsworth RoadHitchin · 6 bedsGood, published 20 Dec 2019rating 3+ yrs old
- Ashwood PlaceHitchin · 8 bedsGood, published 13 Nov 2019rating 3+ yrs old
- Benslow Nursing HomeHitchin · 35 bedsGood, published 4 Jun 2019rating 3+ yrs old
- ElmsideHitchin · 69 bedsGood, published 3 Mar 2026
- Sector
- Social Care Org
- On CQC’s site
- cqc.org.uk/location/1-120087133
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.