CareSectorWatch
Care home

Kingfishers Nursing Home

Fieldhead Gardens, Bourne End, SL8 5RA · Buckinghamshire · South East

35 beds · operated by JK Healthcare Limited

CQC overall rating
Requires improvement12 Jan 2023rating 3+ yrs old

CQC marks this as an inherited rating — carried over from the location's previous registration (for example after a change of ownership), not from an inspection of the current registration.

Diligence verdict

Rated Requires improvement overall, and the rating is 3 years old, and 2 of this operator's 5 rated homes are below Good.

Below Good on
SafeRequires improvement12 Jan 2023rating 3+ yrs old
Well-ledRequires improvement12 Jan 2023rating 3+ yrs old
Age of rating
3 years old — published 12 Jan 2023. CQC has not re-inspected since; a re-inspection could move it in either direction.
Operator's wider portfolio
2 of 5 of JK Healthcare Limited's rated homes are Requires improvement or Inadequate.

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

The five key questions

Key questionRatingPublished
SafeRequires improvementrating 3+ yrs old12 Jan 2023
EffectiveGoodrating 3+ yrs old4 Jul 2019
CaringGoodrating 3+ yrs old4 Jul 2019
ResponsiveGoodrating 3+ yrs old4 Jul 2019
Well-ledRequires improvementrating 3+ yrs old12 Jan 2023

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 — 4 other locations

Other active services registered to JK Healthcare Limited. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.

NameOverall rating (published)Local authority
AustenwoodGood16 Oct 2018rating 3+ yrs oldBuckinghamshire
Manor Barn Nursing HomeRequires improvement13 May 2025West Sussex
The Anchorage Residential Care HomeGood25 Jul 2019rating 3+ yrs oldWest Sussex
Weald Hall Residential HomeGood18 Oct 2022rating 3+ yrs oldEssex

Data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

Diligence pack

Need this on paper? The single-site diligence pack on Kingfishers Nursing Home adds full rating history, inspection failure themes quoted verbatim, the operator's whole-portfolio record and Companies House linkage — hand-reviewed, every figure dated. £149 · delivered within 48 hours.

See a sample and order →
Provenance & registration
Registered with CQC
2 Jun 2023
Beds
35
Sector
Social Care Org
On CQC’s site
cqc.org.uk/location/1-15770847337

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.