Grace Court Care Centre
Prescot Road, St. Helens, WA10 3UU · St. Helens · North West
30 beds · operated by Abbendon Healthcare Ltd
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 3 years old, and 1 of this operator's 3 rated homes are below Good.
- Below Good on
- SafeRequires improvement15 Jul 2022rating 3+ yrs oldEffectiveRequires improvement17 May 2022rating 3+ yrs oldResponsiveRequires improvement17 May 2022rating 3+ yrs oldWell-ledRequires improvement15 Jul 2022rating 3+ yrs old
- Age of rating
- 3 years old — published 15 Jul 2022. CQC has not re-inspected since; a re-inspection could move it in either direction.
- Operator's wider portfolio
- 1 of 3 of Abbendon Healthcare Ltd's rated homes are Requires improvement or Inadequate.
Verbatim CQC ratings, each dated · data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC
The five key questions
| Key question | Rating | Published |
|---|---|---|
| Safe | Requires improvementrating 3+ yrs old | 15 Jul 2022 |
| Effective | Requires improvementrating 3+ yrs old | 17 May 2022 |
| Caring | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 28 Dec 2019 |
| Responsive | Requires improvementrating 3+ yrs old | 17 May 2022 |
| Well-led | Requires improvementrating 3+ yrs old | 15 Jul 2022 |
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 — 2 other locations
Other active services registered to Abbendon Healthcare Ltd. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.
| Name | Overall rating (published) | Local authority |
|---|---|---|
| Abbendon Nursing Home | Good29 Feb 2024 | Sefton |
| Bankfield | Good9 Jun 2026 | Bury |
Data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC
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- 21 Jan 2026
- Beds
- 30
- Sector
- Social Care Org
- On CQC’s site
- cqc.org.uk/location/1-25880062760
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.