Fern Lodge
108 Broad Road, Braintree, CM7 9RX · Essex · East of England
CQC’s records also hold a deregistered registration with this name at this postcode: Fern Lodge, Provide Community Interest Company, deregistered 24 Nov 2023; Fern Lodge, Braintree Health Care Limited, deregistered 11 Aug 2021.
What the record says
Rated Good overall, but Well-led is Requires improvement (20 May 2025), and 2 of this operator's 6 rated services are below Good.
- Below Good on
- Well-ledRequires improvement, published 20 May 2025
- This operator's rated services
- Of Provide Care Solutions Limited's 6 rated services, 2 are below Good — not this one.
Verbatim CQC ratings, each dated · data as at 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
- Care type
- Care home without nursing
- Beds
- 8
- Registered with CQC
- 20 Jul 2023
- Run by
- Provide Care Solutions Limited
- Phone
- 03003032642
- Website
- www.provide.org.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 | Good | 20 May 2025 |
| Effective | Good | 20 May 2025 |
| Caring | Good | 20 May 2025 |
| Responsive | Good | 20 May 2025 |
| Well-led | Requires improvement | 20 May 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 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
Same operator — 6 other locations
Other active services registered to Provide Care Solutions Limited. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.
| Name | Overall rating (published) | Local authority |
|---|---|---|
| Provide Care Solutions Limited | Not yet rated | Essex |
| React Homecare – Derbyshire | Requires improvement, published 28 May 2022rating 3+ yrs old | Derbyshire |
| React Homecare – North Yorkshire | Good, published 11 Oct 2022rating 3+ yrs old | North Yorkshire |
| React Homecare – Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire South | Good, published 13 Jan 2021rating 3+ yrs old | Nottinghamshire |
| React Homecare – South Yorkshire | Good, published 23 Mar 2023rating 3+ yrs old | Doncaster |
| React Homecare – Staffordshire and Cheshire East | Requires improvement, published 21 May 2021rating 3+ yrs old | Cheshire East |
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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- 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.
- Larchwood Care Homeabout 0 miles · Braintree · 64 bedsGood, published 13 May 2025
- Braintree Mews Care Homeabout 0.6 miles · Braintree · 75 bedsGood, published 27 Aug 2024
- Braintree Mews Care Homeabout 0.6 miles · Braintree · 75 bedsNot yet rated
- Millard Houseabout 0.7 miles · Braintree · 43 bedsGood, published 13 Mar 2019rating 3+ yrs old
- Sector
- Social Care Org
- On CQC’s site
- cqc.org.uk/location/1-16310357719
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.