Bright Meadows
Breightmet Fold Lane, Bolton, BL2 6PP · Bolton · North West
What the record says
Rated Good overall, but Safe is Requires improvement (29 Dec 2025), and 1 of this operator's 4 rated homes is below Good.
- Below Good on
- SafeRequires improvement, published 29 Dec 2025
- This operator's rated services
- Of Harbour Healthcare 1 Ltd's 4 rated homes, 1 is below Good — not 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
- 121
- Registered with CQC
- 15 Mar 2022
- Run by
- Harbour Healthcare 1 Ltd
- Part of
- Harbour Healthcare · 38 services
- Phone
- 01204392005
- Website
- www.harbourhealthcare.co.uk
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 | 29 Dec 2025 |
| Effective | Good | 29 Dec 2025 |
| Caring | Good | 2 Sep 2023 |
| Responsive | Good | 2 Sep 2023 |
| Well-led | Good | 29 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 — 3 other locations
Other active services registered to Harbour Healthcare 1 Ltd. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.
| Name | Overall rating (published) | Local authority |
|---|---|---|
| Allerton Lodge | Requires improvement, published 9 Jun 2022rating 3+ yrs old | Liverpool |
| Belle Vue Care Home | Good, published 24 Aug 2023rating 3+ yrs old | Torbay |
| Woodlands Care Home | Good, published 28 Jan 2026 | Bolton |
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 5 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.
- Laburnum Lodgeabout 0 miles · Bolton · 32 bedsGood, published 7 Apr 2018rating 3+ yrs old
- Shannon Court Care Centreabout 1.3 miles · Bolton · 78 bedsGood, published 8 Mar 2023rating 3+ yrs old
- Morden Grangeabout 1.4 miles · Bolton · 8 bedsGood, published 20 Apr 2018rating 3+ yrs old
- Radcliffe Houseabout 1.9 miles · Manchester · 2 bedsGood, published 15 Jun 2026
- Sector
- Social Care Org
- On CQC’s site
- cqc.org.uk/location/1-12594814418
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.