The Wells Nursing Home
Henton, Wells, BA5 1PD · Somerset · South West
What the record says
Rated Requires improvement overall.
- Below Good on
- SafeRequires improvement, published 19 Dec 2025Well-ledRequires improvement, published 19 Dec 2025
- This operator's rated services
- Of Avon Care Homes Limited's 2 rated homes, 1 is below Good — this one. See the operator.
Verbatim CQC ratings, each dated · data as at 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
- Care type
- Care home with nursing
- Beds
- 40
- Registered with CQC
- 1 Dec 2010
- Run by
- Avon Care Homes Limited
- Part of
- Avon Care Homes · 5 services
- Phone
- 01749673865
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 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
The five key questions
| Key question | Rating | Published |
|---|---|---|
| Safe | Requires improvement | 19 Dec 2025 |
| Effective | Good | 19 Dec 2025 |
| Caring | Good | 19 Dec 2025 |
| Responsive | Good | 19 Dec 2025 |
| Well-led | Requires improvement | 19 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 published by CQC to 1 Sep 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.
| Name | Overall rating (published) | Local authority |
|---|---|---|
| Bybrook House Nursing Home | Good, published 22 May 2026 | Wiltshire |
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?
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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.
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- 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 care homes with nursing within 10 miles, registered for at least one of the same groups this service supports. Distance is straight line between registered addresses. Not an assessment of anyone’s needs.
- Glastonbury Care Homeabout 4 miles · Glastonbury · 64 bedsGood, published 17 Jan 2019rating 3+ yrs old
- St Benedicts Nursing Home Limitedabout 4.1 miles · Glastonbury · 60 bedsGood, published 16 Jul 2019rating 3+ yrs old
- Torrwood Care Centreabout 4.8 miles · Wells · 82 bedsGood, published 2 Sep 2021rating 3+ yrs old
- Arthurs Court Care Homeabout 5.8 miles · Street · 40 bedsGood, published 20 Jun 2018rating 3+ yrs oldinherited from a previous registration
- 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 1 Sep 2026 — as published by CQC, bulk files of 01 Sep 2026 · source: CQC · data & methods.