Milford Lodge Care Home
Priory End, Hitchin, SG4 9AL · Hertfordshire · East of England
What the record says
Rated Good overall, but Well-led is Requires improvement (26 Jul 2019), the rating is 7 years old, and 5 of this operator's 19 rated homes are below Good.
- Below Good on
- Well-ledRequires improvement, published 26 Jul 2019rating 3+ yrs old
- Age of rating
- 7 years old — published 26 Jul 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 Colleycare Limited's 19 rated homes, 5 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
- 60
- Registered with CQC
- 30 May 2014
- Run by
- Colleycare Limited
- Part of
- B & M Care · 28 services
- Phone
- 01462432524
- Website
- www.bmcare.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 | 26 Jul 2019 |
| Effective | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 26 Jul 2019 |
| Caring | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 26 Jul 2019 |
| Responsive | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 26 Jul 2019 |
| Well-led | Requires improvementrating 3+ yrs old | 26 Jul 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 Colleycare Limited. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.
| Name | Overall rating (published) | Local authority |
|---|---|---|
| Ashlyns Care Home | Good, published 19 Sep 2018rating 3+ yrs old | Hertfordshire |
| Bury Lodge Care Home | Requires improvement, published 4 Apr 2020rating 3+ yrs old | Buckinghamshire |
| Dalton Lodge | Good, published 31 Dec 2025 | Waltham Forest |
| Lakeside Residential Home | Requires improvement, published 11 Aug 2023rating 3+ yrs old | Reading |
| Osbourne Court | Good, published 24 Jun 2025 | Hertfordshire |
| Ryeview Manor Care Home | Good, published 14 Mar 2020rating 3+ yrs old | Buckinghamshire |
| St Andrews Care Home | Good, published 14 May 2021rating 3+ yrs old | Hertfordshire |
| St Anns Care Home | Good, published 3 Oct 2023 | North Northamptonshire |
| St Brendan's Care Home | Good, published 18 Mar 2022rating 3+ yrs old | Bracknell Forest |
| St Joseph's Care Home | Good, published 18 Oct 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Hertfordshire |
| St Lauras | Good, published 13 Jan 2022rating 3+ yrs old | Hertfordshire |
| St Leonards Care Home | Requires improvement, published 31 May 2023rating 3+ yrs old | Buckinghamshire |
…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?
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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 registered for care without 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.
- Elmsideabout 0.6 miles · Hitchin · 69 bedsGood, published 3 Mar 2026
- Highbury Riseabout 0.6 miles · Hitchin · 23 bedsRequires improvement, published 27 Jan 2026
- Sloe Hill Residential Homeabout 0.6 miles · Hitchin · 25 bedsGood, published 15 May 2025
- Foxholes Care Homeabout 0.8 miles · Hitchin · 110 bedsGood, published 19 Dec 2024
- Sector
- Social Care Org
- On CQC’s site
- cqc.org.uk/location/1-1419049052
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.