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Community based adult social care services

Hospice at Home

ST LUKE'S HOSPICE, Fobbing Farm, Basildon, SS16 5NJ · Essex · East of England

Community based adult social care services · operated by SPDNS Nurse Care Community Interest Company

CQC overall rating
Good17 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 Good overall, but Effective is Requires improvement (17 Jan 2023), and the rating is 3 years old.

Below Good on
EffectiveRequires improvement17 Jan 2023rating 3+ yrs old
Age of rating
3 years old — published 17 Jan 2023. CQC has not re-inspected since; a re-inspection could move it in either direction.
Operator's wider portfolio
All 2 of SPDNS Nurse Care Community Interest Company's rated homes are Good or better.

Verbatim CQC ratings, each dated · data as at 8 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

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.

What it provides

Care at home (visits)

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Data as published by CQC to 8 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

The five key questions

Key questionRatingPublished
SafeGoodrating 3+ yrs old17 Jan 2023
EffectiveRequires improvementrating 3+ yrs old17 Jan 2023
CaringGoodrating 3+ yrs old17 Jan 2023
ResponsiveGoodrating 3+ yrs old17 Jan 2023
Well-ledGoodrating 3+ yrs old17 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 published by CQC to 8 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

Same operator — 1 other location

Other active services registered to SPDNS Nurse Care Community Interest Company. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.

NameOverall rating (published)Local authority
SPDNS Nurse Care Community Interest Company (CIC)Good12 Mar 2020rating 3+ yrs oldSouthend-on-Sea

Data as published by CQC to 8 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

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Provenance & registration
Registered with CQC
3 Oct 2023
Service type
Community based adult social care services
Sector
Social Care Org
On CQC’s site
cqc.org.uk/location/1-17708902164

Every rating on this page is shown verbatim as CQC published it, each with its own publication date. Data as at 8 Jul 2026as published by CQC, bulk files of 01–08 Jul 2026 · source: CQC · data & methods.