Advantage Healthcare - Suffolk and Essex
6 The Courtyard Phoenix Square, Colchester, CO4 9PE · Essex · East of England
Community based adult social care services · operated by Advantage Healthcare Limited, part of City and County Healthcare Group
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 Good overall, but the rating is 3 years old, and 1 of this operator's 7 rated homes are below Good.
- Age of rating
- 3 years old — published 14 Jun 2023. CQC has not re-inspected since; a re-inspection could move it in either direction.
- Operator's wider portfolio
- 1 of 7 of Advantage Healthcare Limited'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 question | Rating | Published |
|---|---|---|
| Safe | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 14 Jun 2023 |
| Effective | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 14 Jun 2023 |
| Caring | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 14 Jun 2023 |
| Responsive | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 14 Jun 2023 |
| Well-led | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 14 Jun 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 — 6 other locations
Other active services registered to Advantage Healthcare Limited. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.
| Name | Overall rating (published) | Local authority |
|---|---|---|
| Advantage Healthcare - London and South East | Good7 Nov 2018rating 3+ yrs old | Lewisham |
| Advantage Healthcare - North West & Yorkshire | Good31 Aug 2023 | Trafford |
| Advantage Healthcare - Nottingham | Good10 Apr 2020rating 3+ yrs old | Nottinghamshire |
| Advantage Healthcare - South Coast | Requires improvement12 Apr 2023rating 3+ yrs old | Brighton and Hove |
| Advantage Healthcare - Tees Valley | Good22 Dec 2022rating 3+ yrs old | Stockton-on-Tees |
| Advantage Healthcare West Midlands | Good31 Jul 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Telford and Wrekin |
Data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC
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- Service type
- Community based adult social care services
- Sector
- Social Care Org
- On CQC’s site
- cqc.org.uk/location/1-16430335885
Every rating on this page is shown verbatim as CQC published it, each with its own publication date. Data as at 11 Jul 2026 — as published by CQC, bulk files of 01–08 Jul 2026 · source: CQC · data & methods.