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The Headington Care Home

Roosevelt Drive, Oxford, OX3 7XR · Oxfordshire · South East

60 beds · operated by GCH (Alder) Ltd, part of Gold Care Homes

CQC overall rating
Requires improvement24 Jun 2026

Diligence verdict

Rated Requires improvement overall, and 3 of this operator's 7 rated homes are below Good.

Below Good on
SafeRequires improvement24 Jun 2026
EffectiveRequires improvement24 Jun 2026
Well-ledRequires improvement24 Jun 2026
Operator's wider portfolio
3 of 7 of GCH (Alder) Ltd'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 questionRatingPublished
SafeRequires improvement24 Jun 2026
EffectiveRequires improvement24 Jun 2026
CaringGood24 Jun 2026
ResponsiveGood24 Jun 2026
Well-ledRequires improvement24 Jun 2026

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 GCH (Alder) Ltd. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.

NameOverall rating (published)Local authority
Charlton Park Care HomeGood10 Mar 2021rating 3+ yrs oldGreenwich
Emberbrook Care HomeGood8 Dec 2022rating 3+ yrs oldSurrey
Hungerford Care HomeRequires improvement5 Dec 2023West Berkshire
Kingfisher House Care HomeGood4 Apr 2018rating 3+ yrs oldSuffolk
Kingston Care HomeRequires improvement1 Sep 2022rating 3+ yrs oldKingston upon Thames
Lansdowne Care HomeGood8 Mar 2023rating 3+ yrs oldBarnet

Data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

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Provenance & registration
Registered with CQC
25 Apr 2025
Beds
60
Sector
Social Care Org
On CQC’s site
cqc.org.uk/location/1-21860816799

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.