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Care home

Lindisfarne Birtley

Durham Road, Chester Le Street, DH3 1LU · Gateshead · North East

66 beds · operated by Gainford Care Homes Limited

CQC overall rating
Good13 Jun 2025

Diligence verdict

Rated Good overall, with every key question Good and none of this operator's 12 rated homes are below Good.

Operator's wider portfolio
All 12 of Gainford Care Homes Limited's rated homes are Good or better.
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 8 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

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.

What it provides

Care home with nursing

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Data as published by CQC to 8 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

The five key questions

Key questionRatingPublished
SafeGood13 Jun 2025
EffectiveGood13 Jun 2025
CaringGood13 Jun 2025
ResponsiveGood13 Jun 2025
Well-ledGood13 Jun 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 8 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

Same operator — 12 other locations

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

NameOverall rating (published)Local authority
Glenbrooke HouseGood25 Jan 2020rating 3+ yrs oldGateshead
Lindisfarne CLS NursingGood15 Oct 2022rating 3+ yrs oldCounty Durham
Lindisfarne CLS ResidentialGood23 May 2023rating 3+ yrs oldCounty Durham
Lindisfarne Care HomeGood16 Feb 2018rating 3+ yrs oldCounty Durham
Lindisfarne CrawcrookGood25 Feb 2026Gateshead
Lindisfarne HartlepoolGood7 Feb 2023rating 3+ yrs oldHartlepool
Lindisfarne HouseGood3 Feb 2022rating 3+ yrs oldNewcastle upon Tyne
Lindisfarne Newton AycliffeGood25 Feb 2025County Durham
Lindisfarne OustonGood16 May 2020rating 3+ yrs oldCounty Durham
Lindisfarne SeahamGood24 Oct 2018rating 3+ yrs oldCounty Durham
Lindisfarne ShottonNot yet ratedCounty Durham
The GroveGood1 Apr 2020rating 3+ yrs oldGateshead

Data as published by CQC to 8 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

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Provenance & registration
Registered with CQC
2 Feb 2011
Beds
66
Sector
Social Care Org
On CQC’s site
cqc.org.uk/location/1-125940690

Every rating on this page is shown verbatim as CQC published it, each with its own publication date. Data as at 8 Jul 2026as published by CQC, bulk files of 01–08 Jul 2026 · source: CQC · data & methods.