Covent House
Durham Road, Gateshead, DH3 2PF · Gateshead · North East
What the record says
Rated Good overall, with every key question Good. None of this operator's 10 rated homes are below Good, including this one.
- This operator's rated services
- Of Malhotra Care Homes Limited's 10 rated homes, none are below Good — including this one. See the operator.
- 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
- 63
- Registered with CQC
- 16 Jun 2011
- Run by
- Malhotra Care Homes Limited
- Part of
- Prestwick Care · 16 services
- Phone
- 01914104444
- Website
- www.prestwickcare.co.uk
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 | 10 Oct 2025 |
| Effective | Good | 10 Oct 2025 |
| Caring | Good | 10 Oct 2025 |
| Responsive | Good | 10 Oct 2025 |
| Well-led | Good | 10 Oct 2025 |
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 — 10 other locations
Other active services registered to Malhotra Care Homes Limited. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.
| Name | Overall rating (published) | Local authority |
|---|---|---|
| Abbey Court | Good, published 3 Oct 2023 | Newcastle upon Tyne |
| Addison Court | Good, published 23 May 2025 | Gateshead |
| Bay View House | Not yet rated | North Tyneside |
| Bede House | Outstanding, published 22 Oct 2025 | Sunderland |
| Belle Vue Nursing Home | Good, published 4 Mar 2026 | Newcastle upon Tyne |
| Cestria House Residential Home | Good, published 28 Nov 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Newcastle upon Tyne |
| Heatherfield Care Home | Good, published 12 Jul 2023rating 3+ yrs old | North Tyneside |
| Hillcrest | Good, published 28 Nov 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Northumberland |
| Melton House | Outstanding, published 28 Nov 2025 | Newcastle upon Tyne |
| Parklands Nursing Home | Good, published 27 Apr 2018rating 3+ yrs old | County Durham |
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?
More on what to look for and ask on a visit —including what an occupational therapist would check for particular needs — at choosing a care home.
- 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.
- Lindisfarne Birtleyabout 0.4 miles · Chester Le Street · 66 bedsGood, published 13 Jun 2025
- Lindisfarne Oustonabout 1.4 miles · Chester Le Street · 57 bedsGood, published 16 May 2020rating 3+ yrs old
- Donwell Houseabout 2.3 miles · Washington · 63 bedsGood, published 27 Aug 2020rating 3+ yrs old
- Picktree Court Care Homeabout 2.4 miles · Chester le Street · 88 bedsGood, published 11 Nov 2022rating 3+ yrs old
- Sector
- Social Care Org
- On CQC’s site
- cqc.org.uk/location/1-240735527
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.