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Care home

Swan House

High Street,, Buckingham, MK18 3DR · Buckinghamshire · South East

32 beds · operated by Agincare (Southwark) Limited, part of Agincare

CQC overall rating
Requires improvement21 Oct 2021rating 3+ yrs old

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 Requires improvement overall, and the rating is 4 years old, and 5 of this operator's 11 rated homes are below Good.

Below Good on
EffectiveRequires improvement13 Dec 2019rating 3+ yrs old
CaringRequires improvement13 Dec 2019rating 3+ yrs old
Well-ledRequires improvement21 Oct 2021rating 3+ yrs old
Age of rating
4 years old — published 21 Oct 2021. CQC has not re-inspected since; a re-inspection could move it in either direction.
Operator's wider portfolio
5 of 11 of Agincare (Southwark) 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 questionRatingPublished
SafeGoodrating 3+ yrs old21 Oct 2021
EffectiveRequires improvementrating 3+ yrs old13 Dec 2019
CaringRequires improvementrating 3+ yrs old13 Dec 2019
ResponsiveGoodrating 3+ yrs old13 Dec 2019
Well-ledRequires improvementrating 3+ yrs old21 Oct 2021

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 — 11 other locations

Other active services registered to Agincare (Southwark) Limited. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.

NameOverall rating (published)Local authority
Bluegrove HouseGood28 Feb 2019rating 3+ yrs oldSouthwark
Greenhive HouseGood22 Jan 2022rating 3+ yrs oldSouthwark
Hazlemere LodgeGood19 Nov 2019rating 3+ yrs oldBuckinghamshire
Rose Court Care HomeRequires improvement12 Aug 2025Southwark
St James CourtGood28 Sep 2017rating 3+ yrs oldBuckinghamshire
Swan CourtRequires improvement24 Jul 2021rating 3+ yrs oldBuckinghamshire
The ChestnutsRequires improvement9 Jul 2019rating 3+ yrs oldBuckinghamshire
The CroftGood5 Mar 2019rating 3+ yrs oldBuckinghamshire
Tower Bridge Care CentreRequires improvement8 Aug 2025Southwark
WatersideGood9 Aug 2019rating 3+ yrs oldSouthwark
Willowmead CourtNot yet ratedBuckinghamshire

Data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

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Provenance & registration
Registered with CQC
14 Oct 2025
Beds
32
Sector
Social Care Org
On CQC’s site
cqc.org.uk/location/1-24863907599

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.