Summerhill
The Dunterns, Alnwick, NE66 1AL · Northumberland · North East
What the record says
Rated Good overall, with every key question Good. None of this operator's 3 rated homes are below Good, including this one.
- This operator's rated services
- Of Raycare Limited's 3 rated homes, none are below Good — including this one. See the operator.
- On the record
- No key question is below Good and the rating is current. This is what a clean CQC record looks like — the checks we can make from the published data raise nothing.
Verbatim CQC ratings, each dated · data as at 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
- Care type
- Care home without nursing
- Beds
- 29
- Registered with CQC
- 20 Jan 2011
- Run by
- Raycare Limited
- Part of
- Carewise Homes · 10 services
- Phone
- 01665602203
- Website
- www.summerhillcare.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 home without 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 | Good | 24 Apr 2025 |
| Effective | Good | 24 Apr 2025 |
| Caring | Good | 24 Apr 2025 |
| Responsive | Good | 24 Apr 2025 |
| Well-led | Good | 24 Apr 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 — 2 other locations
Other active services registered to Raycare Limited. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.
| Name | Overall rating (published) | Local authority |
|---|---|---|
| Alsley Lodge | Outstanding, published 26 Nov 2025 | Lancashire |
| Hillcroft Residential Care Home | Good, published 24 Nov 2023 | Lancashire |
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.
- 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 care homes registered for care without nursing within 25 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.
- Abbeyfield Houseabout 0.5 miles · Alnwick · 25 bedsGood, published 26 Apr 2026
- The Grangeabout 3.9 miles · Alnwick · 27 bedsGood, published 20 Jan 2026
- Heatherdale Residential Homeabout 8.8 miles · Morpeth · 36 bedsGood, published 20 Aug 2025
- Rothbury Cottage Care Ltdabout 10.7 miles · Morpeth · 14 bedsGood, published 17 Feb 2025
- Sector
- Social Care Org
- On CQC’s site
- cqc.org.uk/location/1-125634678
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.