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Care home

The Wells Nursing Home

Henton, Wells, BA5 1PD · Somerset · South West

40 beds · operated by Avon Care Homes Limited, part of Avon Care Homes

CQC overall rating
Requires improvement19 Dec 2025

Diligence verdict

Rated Requires improvement overall, and 1 of this operator's 2 rated homes are below Good.

Below Good on
SafeRequires improvement19 Dec 2025
Well-ledRequires improvement19 Dec 2025
Operator's wider portfolio
1 of 2 of Avon Care Homes Limited's rated homes are Requires improvement or Inadequate. See the operator.

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

The five key questions

Key questionRatingPublished
SafeRequires improvement19 Dec 2025
EffectiveGood19 Dec 2025
CaringGood19 Dec 2025
ResponsiveGood19 Dec 2025
Well-ledRequires improvement19 Dec 2025

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 — 1 other location

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

NameOverall rating (published)Local authority
Bybrook House Nursing HomeGood22 May 2026Wiltshire

Data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

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Provenance & registration
Registered with CQC
1 Dec 2010
Beds
40
Sector
Social Care Org
On CQC’s site
cqc.org.uk/location/1-125038226

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.