Potens Dorset Domicilary Care Agency
73 Clarendon Road, Broadstone, BH18 9HT · Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole · South West
What the record says
Rated Good overall, but the rating is 3 years old, and 1 of this operator's 28 rated services is below Good.
- Age of rating
- 3 years old — published 21 Dec 2022, and no newer rating had been published by 1 Sep 2026. A re-inspection could move it in either direction.
- This operator's rated services
- Of Potensial Limited's 28 rated services, 1 is below Good — not this one. See the operator.
Verbatim CQC ratings, each dated · data as at 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
- Care type
- Care at home (visits)
- Registered with CQC
- 9 Feb 2016
- Run by
- Potensial Limited
- Part of
- Potensial Limited · 49 services
- Phone
- 01202875404
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 at home (visits)
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Data as published by CQC to 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
The five key questions
| Key question | Rating | Published |
|---|---|---|
| Safe | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 21 Dec 2022 |
| Effective | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 25 Aug 2017 |
| Caring | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 25 Aug 2017 |
| Responsive | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 21 Dec 2022 |
| Well-led | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 21 Dec 2022 |
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 — 27 other locations
Other active services registered to Potensial Limited. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.
| Name | Overall rating (published) | Local authority |
|---|---|---|
| 16 Crompton Street | Good, published 29 Mar 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Liverpool |
| 185 Watling St Road | Good, published 19 Feb 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Lancashire |
| 44 Newbold Road | Good, published 22 Jul 2026 | Derbyshire |
| Avondale Lodge | Good, published 23 Jan 2020rating 3+ yrs old | Redcar and Cleveland |
| Beaufort House | Good, published 31 Dec 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Redcar and Cleveland |
| Heath Lodge | Good, published 10 Jan 2020rating 3+ yrs old | Warrington |
| Heathfield Gardens | Good, published 9 Jun 2018rating 3+ yrs old | Derbyshire |
| Kensington Hall | Good, published 27 Jan 2026 | County Durham |
| Larwood House | Good, published 5 Oct 2018rating 3+ yrs old | Nottinghamshire |
| Mansard House | Outstanding, published 24 Apr 2018rating 3+ yrs old | Lancashire |
| Merseyside Supported Living and Outreach | Good, published 16 Jan 2020rating 3+ yrs old | Wirral |
| Middleton Lodge | Good, published 8 Aug 2024 | Darlington |
…and 15 more. See the full group view.
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 actually decides a good home-care agency at choosing home care.
- What to ask a home care agencyContinuity of carer, missed visits, who answers at 8pm — the questions that actually decide it.
- 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 home-care agencies within 5 miles, registered for at least one of the same groups this service supports. Distance is straight line between registered addresses — for an agency that is its office, not where the care happens, so ask whether they cover the postcode. Not an assessment of anyone’s needs.
- Advance Dorsetabout 0.4 miles · BroadstoneGood, published 22 Feb 2019rating 3+ yrs old
- Corfe Care Ltdabout 0.4 miles · BroadstoneGood, published 20 Apr 2022rating 3+ yrs old
- Dorset Supported Livingabout 1.3 miles · PooleGood, published 24 Nov 2018rating 3+ yrs old
- Edith Healthcare Ringwoodabout 1.3 miles · PooleGood, published 14 Aug 2024
- Sector
- Social Care Org
- On CQC’s site
- cqc.org.uk/location/1-2465235849
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.