Drovers Call Care Home
186 Lea Road, Gainsborough, DN21 1AN · Lincolnshire · East Midlands
52 beds · operated by Knights Care (5) Limited
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 Inadequate overall, and the rating is 2 years old.
- Below Good on
- SafeInadequate23 Dec 2023EffectiveInadequate23 Dec 2023CaringRequires improvement23 Dec 2023ResponsiveRequires improvement23 Dec 2023Well-ledInadequate23 Dec 2023
- Age of rating
- 2 years old — published 23 Dec 2023. CQC has not re-inspected since; a re-inspection could move it in either direction.
Verbatim CQC ratings, each dated · data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC
The five key questions
| Key question | Rating | Published |
|---|---|---|
| Safe | Inadequate | 23 Dec 2023 |
| Effective | Inadequate | 23 Dec 2023 |
| Caring | Requires improvement | 23 Dec 2023 |
| Responsive | Requires improvement | 23 Dec 2023 |
| Well-led | Inadequate | 23 Dec 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
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- 23 Mar 2026
- Beds
- 52
- Sector
- Social Care Org
- On CQC’s site
- cqc.org.uk/location/1-25513508821
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.