Handford House Care Home
27a Cumberland Street, Ipswich, IP1 3PA · Suffolk · East of England
What the record says
Rated Good overall, but Well-led is Requires improvement (4 Aug 2025).
- Below Good on
- Well-ledRequires improvement, published 4 Aug 2025
- Operator's wider portfolio
- All 12 of Healthcare Homes (LSC) Limited's rated homes are Good or better. See the operator.
Verbatim CQC ratings, each dated · data as at 8 Jul 2026 · source: CQC
- Care type
- Care home with nursing
- Beds
- 52
- Registered with CQC
- 28 Mar 2014
- Run by
- Healthcare Homes (LSC) Limited
- Part of
- Healthcare Homes · 56 services
- Phone
- 01473231111
- Website
- www.healthcarehomes.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 8 Jul 2026 · source: CQC
The five key questions
| Key question | Rating | Published |
|---|---|---|
| Safe | Good | 4 Aug 2025 |
| Effective | Good | 4 Aug 2025 |
| Caring | Good | 4 Aug 2025 |
| Responsive | Good | 4 Aug 2025 |
| Well-led | Requires improvement | 4 Aug 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 Healthcare Homes (LSC) Limited. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.
| Name | Overall rating (published) | Local authority |
|---|---|---|
| Ashley Court | Good, published 6 May 2026 | Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole |
| Ashley Gardens Care Centre | Good, published 23 May 2024 | Kent |
| Avon Lodge Care Home | Good, published 5 Aug 2022rating 3+ yrs old | South Gloucestershire |
| Bedhampton Nursing Home and Specialist Care Unit | Good, published 13 May 2024 | Hampshire |
| Blandford Grange Care Home | Good, published 2 Oct 2025 | Dorset |
| Cedar Court Care Home | Good, published 6 May 2022rating 3+ yrs old | Oxfordshire |
| Foxearth Lodge Nursing Home | Good, published 25 Mar 2023rating 3+ yrs old | Suffolk |
| Kingsley Court Care Home | Good, published 6 Aug 2021rating 3+ yrs old | Hillingdon |
| Sandown Park Care Home | Outstanding, published 4 Mar 2018rating 3+ yrs old | Windsor and Maidenhead |
| Sovereign Lodge Care Centre | Good, published 19 Dec 2019rating 3+ yrs old | East Sussex |
| Tenchley Manor Nursing Home | Good, published 27 Oct 2022rating 3+ yrs old | West Sussex |
| The Chase Care Centre | Good, published 9 Sep 2021rating 3+ yrs old | Hertfordshire |
Data as published by CQC to 8 Jul 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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Other services in Ipswichregistered for at least one of the same groups this service supports, listed with the strongest CQC ratings first. A place to look around — not a recommendation, and not an assessment of anyone’s needs.
- Asterbury PlaceIpswich · 80 bedsOutstanding, published 4 Apr 2019rating 3+ yrs old
- Montrose HouseIpswich · 10 bedsOutstanding, published 31 May 2018rating 3+ yrs old
- Park ManorIpswich · 21 bedsOutstanding, published 20 Dec 2019rating 3+ yrs old
- Prince of Wales HouseIpswich · 49 bedsOutstanding, published 28 Nov 2023
- Sector
- Social Care Org
- On CQC’s site
- cqc.org.uk/location/1-1317119509
Every rating on this page is shown verbatim as CQC published it, each with its own publication date. Data as at 8 Jul 2026 — as published by CQC, bulk files of 01–08 Jul 2026 · source: CQC · data & methods.