The Birches - Care Home
Grammar School Road, Brigg, DN20 8BB · North Lincolnshire · Yorkshire and The Humber
What the record says
Rated Good overall, but the rating is 6 years old, and 1 of this operator's 18 rated services is below Good.
- Age of rating
- 6 years old — published 6 Sep 2019, and no newer rating had been published by 1 Sep 2026. A re-inspection could move it in either direction.
- This operator's rated services
- Of H I C A's 18 rated services, 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 without nursing
- Beds
- 31
- Registered with CQC
- 29 Nov 2010
- Run by
- H I C A
- Part of
- Humberside Independent Care Association Limited · 21 services
- Phone
- 01652652348
- Website
- www.hicagroup.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 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 | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 6 Sep 2019 |
| Effective | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 6 Sep 2019 |
| Caring | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 6 Sep 2019 |
| Responsive | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 6 Sep 2019 |
| Well-led | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 6 Sep 2019 |
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 — 18 other locations
Other active services registered to H I C A. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.
| Name | Overall rating (published) | Local authority |
|---|---|---|
| Albemarle - Care Home | Good, published 5 Jun 2018rating 3+ yrs old | East Riding of Yorkshire |
| Cranwell Court | Good, published 13 Feb 2025 | North East Lincolnshire |
| Elm Tree Court - Care Home | Good, published 14 Dec 2023 | Kingston upon Hull, City of |
| Fairways Care Home | Good, published 4 Jan 2019rating 3+ yrs old | North East Lincolnshire |
| HICA HomeCare - Doncaster | Good, published 12 Dec 2018rating 3+ yrs old | Doncaster |
| HICA Homecare - Chorley | Good, published 27 Nov 2020rating 3+ yrs old | Lancashire |
| HICA Homecare - Grimsby | Good, published 5 Dec 2023 | North East Lincolnshire |
| HICA Homecare - Hull | Good, published 29 May 2021rating 3+ yrs old | Kingston upon Hull, City of |
| Hampden House | Good, published 16 May 2023rating 3+ yrs old | North Yorkshire |
| Isaac Robinson Court - Care Home | Good, published 22 Jul 2023rating 3+ yrs old | Kingston upon Hull, City of |
| Kirkgate House - Care Home | Good, published 29 Apr 2020rating 3+ yrs old | East Riding of Yorkshire |
| Overton House - Care Home | Good, published 12 May 2018rating 3+ yrs old | East Riding of Yorkshire |
…and 6 more. See the full group view.
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?
More on what to look for and ask on a visit —including what an occupational therapist would check for particular needs — at choosing a care home.
- 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 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.
- Options Watermill Houseabout 2.1 miles · Brigg · 10 bedsOutstanding, published 8 Sep 2018rating 3+ yrs old
- Options Watermill Lodgeabout 2.1 miles · Brigg · 4 bedsOutstanding, published 9 Mar 2018rating 3+ yrs old
- Amber Houseabout 2.5 miles · Brigg · 13 bedsGood, published 16 Nov 2023
- Sunningdale Court-Care Homeabout 6.7 miles · Scunthorpe · 20 bedsRequires improvement, published 11 May 2026
- Sector
- Social Care Org
- On CQC’s site
- cqc.org.uk/location/1-127697467
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.