Bluebell House Residential and Nursing Home
126 Barkham Road, Wokingham, RG41 2RP · Wokingham · South East
What the record says
Rated Good overall, with every key question Good. None of this operator's 12 rated services are below Good, including this one.
- This operator's rated services
- Of Optalis Limited's 12 rated services, none are below Good — including this one.
- On the record
- No key question is below Good and the rating is current. This is what a clean CQC record looks like — the checks we can make from the published data raise nothing.
Verbatim CQC ratings, each dated · data as at 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
- Care type
- Care home with nursing
- Beds
- 50
- Registered with CQC
- 18 Sep 2023
- Run by
- Optalis Limited
- Phone
- 01179770233
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 with 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 | 3 Jul 2026 |
| Effective | Good | 3 Jul 2026 |
| Caring | Good | 3 Jul 2026 |
| Responsive | Good | 3 Jul 2026 |
| Well-led | Good | 3 Jul 2026 |
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 — 13 other locations
Other active services registered to Optalis Limited. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.
| Name | Overall rating (published) | Local authority |
|---|---|---|
| 16 Homeside Close | Good, published 4 Dec 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Windsor and Maidenhead |
| 5 Winston Court | Good, published 5 Dec 2018rating 3+ yrs old | Windsor and Maidenhead |
| 9 Allenby Road | Good, published 3 Apr 2020rating 3+ yrs old | Windsor and Maidenhead |
| Hollies | Good, published 6 Jun 2019rating 3+ yrs old | West Berkshire |
| Lady Elizabeth House | Good, published 31 Jan 2023rating 3+ yrs old | Windsor and Maidenhead |
| Loddon Court | Good, published 30 Nov 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Wokingham |
| Optalis - Community Living Services | Not yet rated | Wokingham |
| Optalis Extra Care Berkshire | Good, published 1 Aug 2018rating 3+ yrs old | Wokingham |
| Optalis ILS -WAM domiciliary care office | Not yet rated | Windsor and Maidenhead |
| Optalis Independent Living services - Maidenhead | Good, published 17 Nov 2021rating 3+ yrs old | Windsor and Maidenhead |
| Optalis Supporting People Services | Good, published 10 May 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Wokingham |
| Short Term Support and Rehabilitation Team | Good, published 8 Jan 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Windsor and Maidenhead |
…and 1 more.
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.
- Ask the council for a needs assessmentFree, whatever the savings, and the formal route to arranged care and funding.
- 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 with 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.
- West Oakabout 0.4 miles · Wokingham · 63 bedsOutstanding, published 8 Dec 2018rating 3+ yrs old
- Glebelands Houseabout 1 mile · Wokingham · 44 bedsGood, published 11 Jul 2018rating 3+ yrs old
- Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh Courtabout 1.9 miles · Wokingham · 45 bedsGood, published 21 Nov 2017rating 3+ yrs old
- Austen Houseabout 2.9 miles · Reading · 79 bedsRequires improvement, published 4 Oct 2022rating 3+ yrs old
- Sector
- Social Care Org
- On CQC’s site
- cqc.org.uk/location/1-16613023555
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.