St Aidan Lodge Residential Care Home
Front Street, Durham, DH1 5BL · County Durham · North East
Diligence verdict
Rated Good overall, but the rating is 7 years old.
- Age of rating
- 7 years old — published 19 Dec 2018. CQC has not re-inspected since; a re-inspection could move it in either direction.
Verbatim CQC ratings, each dated · data as at 8 Jul 2026 · source: CQC
- Care type
- Care home without nursing
- Beds
- 62
- Registered with CQC
- 10 Dec 2010
- Run by
- Ideal Care (North) Limited
- Phone
- 01913709691
- Website
- www.staidanlodge.com
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
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Care home without 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 | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 19 Dec 2018 |
| Effective | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 19 Dec 2018 |
| Caring | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 19 Dec 2018 |
| Responsive | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 19 Dec 2018 |
| Well-led | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 19 Dec 2018 |
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
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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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- Understand who paysThe means test, what happens to the home, and NHS Continuing Healthcare.
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- Abbotts Court Care HomeDurham · 47 bedsGood, published 28 May 2022rating 3+ yrs old
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- Belmont Grange Nursing and Residential HomeDurham · 30 bedsGood, published 21 Feb 2023rating 3+ yrs old
- Bowburn Care CentreDurham · 80 bedsGood, published 8 Sep 2022rating 3+ yrs old
- Sector
- Social Care Org
- On CQC’s site
- cqc.org.uk/location/1-140255576
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.