Kingfisher House Care Home
St. Fabians Close, Newmarket, CB8 0EJ · Suffolk · East of England
91 beds · operated by GCH (Alder) Ltd, part of Gold Care Homes
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 Well-led is Requires improvement (4 Apr 2018), the rating is 8 years old, and 3 of this operator's 7 rated homes are below Good.
- Below Good on
- Well-ledRequires improvement4 Apr 2018rating 3+ yrs old
- Age of rating
- 8 years old — published 4 Apr 2018. CQC has not re-inspected since; a re-inspection could move it in either direction.
- 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 question | Rating | Published |
|---|---|---|
| Safe | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 4 Apr 2018 |
| Effective | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 4 Apr 2018 |
| Caring | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 4 Apr 2018 |
| Responsive | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 4 Apr 2018 |
| Well-led | Requires improvementrating 3+ yrs old | 4 Apr 2018 |
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.
| Name | Overall rating (published) | Local authority |
|---|---|---|
| Charlton Park Care Home | Good10 Mar 2021rating 3+ yrs old | Greenwich |
| Emberbrook Care Home | Good8 Dec 2022rating 3+ yrs old | Surrey |
| Hungerford Care Home | Requires improvement5 Dec 2023 | West Berkshire |
| Kingston Care Home | Requires improvement1 Sep 2022rating 3+ yrs old | Kingston upon Thames |
| Lansdowne Care Home | Good8 Mar 2023rating 3+ yrs old | Barnet |
| The Headington Care Home | Requires improvement24 Jun 2026 | Oxfordshire |
Data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC
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- On CQC’s site
- cqc.org.uk/location/1-21872704851
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.