Routes Healthcare Sunderland
Suite 001 Ground Floor, Doxford Works, Sunderland, SR3 3XW · Sunderland · North East
Community based adult social care services · operated by Routes Healthcare (North) Limited, part of Routes Healthcare
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 2 of this operator's 8 rated homes are below Good.
- Age of rating
- 3 years old — published 4 Jul 2023. CQC has not re-inspected since; a re-inspection could move it in either direction.
- Operator's wider portfolio
- 2 of 8 of Routes Healthcare (North) 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 | 4 Jul 2023 |
| Effective | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 4 Jul 2023 |
| Caring | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 15 Jul 2022 |
| Responsive | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 15 Jul 2022 |
| Well-led | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 4 Jul 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 — 9 other locations
Other active services registered to Routes Healthcare (North) Limited. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.
| Name | Overall rating (published) | Local authority |
|---|---|---|
| Just a Little Company | Not yet rated | Derbyshire |
| Routes Healthcare - Kirklees | Good19 Feb 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Calderdale |
| Routes Healthcare Burnley | Good18 Jul 2023 | Lancashire |
| Routes Healthcare DCA | Good10 Dec 2020rating 3+ yrs old | Blackpool |
| Routes Healthcare Merseyside | Not yet rated | Liverpool |
| Routes Healthcare Preston | Good19 May 2025 | Lancashire |
| Routes Healthcare Rochdale | Requires improvement6 Dec 2023 | Rochdale |
| Routes Healthcare Tameside | Requires improvement12 Nov 2025 | Tameside |
| Routes Healthcare Wirral | Good5 Jul 2023rating 3+ yrs old | Wirral |
Data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC
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- 9 Apr 2025
- Service type
- Community based adult social care services
- Sector
- Social Care Org
- On CQC’s site
- cqc.org.uk/location/1-22320675322
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.