The Mead
7-8 The Mead, Warminster, BA12 8RB · Wiltshire · South West
What the record says
Rated Good overall, but Caring is Requires improvement (22 Mar 2018), the rating is 5 years old, and 6 of this operator's 17 rated services are below Good.
- Below Good on
- CaringRequires improvement, published 22 Mar 2018rating 3+ yrs old
- Age of rating
- 5 years old — published 22 Jul 2021, 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 Rethink Mental Illness's 17 rated services, 6 are 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
- 6
- Registered with CQC
- 1 Dec 2010
- Run by
- Rethink Mental Illness
- Part of
- Rethink · 18 services
- Phone
- 01985215800
- Website
- www.rethink.org
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 | 22 Jul 2021 |
| Effective | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 22 Jul 2021 |
| Caring | Requires improvementrating 3+ yrs old | 22 Mar 2018 |
| Responsive | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 22 Jul 2021 |
| Well-led | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 22 Jul 2021 |
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 — 16 other locations
Other active services registered to Rethink Mental Illness. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.
| Name | Overall rating (published) | Local authority |
|---|---|---|
| 148 Hornsey Lane | Good, published 7 Mar 2023rating 3+ yrs old | Islington |
| Albany House - Stratford-upon-Avon | Good, published 2 Apr 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Warwickshire |
| Bath Road | Good, published 21 Aug 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Swindon |
| Cavendish Lodge | Requires improvement, published 12 Jan 2023rating 3+ yrs old | Warwickshire |
| Derwent Lodge | Requires improvement, published 3 Aug 2026 | Derby |
| Devon Enhanced Recovery Service | Good, published 25 Dec 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Devon |
| Doncaster Crisis Accommodation and Helpline | Good, published 6 Mar 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Doncaster |
| Grove Court | Requires improvement, published 14 Oct 2024 | Staffordshire |
| Lindsay House | Good, published 7 Dec 2019rating 3+ yrs old | West Northamptonshire |
| Redwoods | Good, published 9 May 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Birmingham |
| Romsey / Winchester Avenue | Requires improvement, published 16 May 2023rating 3+ yrs old | Warwickshire |
| Scott & Rosse Place | Not yet rated | Bury |
…and 4 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?
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- Coming out of hospitalIf this follows a hospital stay: the discharge decision, reablement, and what to ask the ward.
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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.
- Ashwood Care Centreabout 0.7 miles · Warminster · 82 bedsGood, published 1 Feb 2019rating 3+ yrs old
- Westbury Lodgeabout 4.2 miles · Westbury · 8 bedsRequires improvement, published 10 Dec 2025
- Sandmarabout 7.7 miles · Trowbridge · 13 bedsGood, published 2 Jul 2021rating 3+ yrs old
- Wingfield Roadabout 7.7 miles · Trowbridge · 5 bedsGood, published 19 May 2018rating 3+ yrs old
- Sector
- Social Care Org
- On CQC’s site
- cqc.org.uk/location/1-130502792
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.