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Care home

Avondale Care Home

Gatehouse Road, Aylesbury, HP19 8EH · Buckinghamshire · South East

90 beds · operated by Porthaven Care Homes LLP, part of Porthaven Care Homes

CQC overall rating
Requires improvement6 Feb 2020rating 3+ yrs old

Diligence verdict

Rated Requires improvement overall, and the rating is 6 years old, and 1 of this operator's 3 rated homes are below Good.

Below Good on
SafeRequires improvement6 Feb 2020rating 3+ yrs old
Age of rating
6 years old — published 6 Feb 2020. CQC has not re-inspected since; a re-inspection could move it in either direction.
Operator's wider portfolio
1 of 3 of Porthaven Care Homes LLP's rated homes are Requires improvement or Inadequate. See the operator.

Verbatim CQC ratings, each dated · data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

The five key questions

Key questionRatingPublished
SafeRequires improvementrating 3+ yrs old6 Feb 2020
EffectiveGoodrating 3+ yrs old6 Feb 2020
CaringGoodrating 3+ yrs old6 Feb 2020
ResponsiveGoodrating 3+ yrs old6 Feb 2020
Well-ledGoodrating 3+ yrs old6 Feb 2020

Ratings verbatim as published by CQC. Key questions can carry different dates when CQC re-inspects only part of a service.

Data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

Same operator — 2 other locations

Other active services registered to Porthaven Care Homes LLP. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.

NameOverall rating (published)Local authority
Astbury Mere Care HomeGood2 Dec 2022rating 3+ yrs oldCheshire East
Prestbury House Care HomeGood15 Jan 2025Cheshire East

Data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

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Provenance & registration
Registered with CQC
8 Apr 2011
Beds
90
Sector
Social Care Org
On CQC’s site
cqc.org.uk/location/1-156003765

Every rating on this page is shown verbatim as CQC published it, each with its own publication date. Data as at 11 Jul 2026as published by CQC, bulk files of 01–08 Jul 2026 · source: CQC · data & methods.