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Lake Side Nursing Home

Station Road By Pass, Winsford, CW7 3NG · Cheshire West and Chester · North West

60 beds · operated by SAS Care Group Ltd

CQC overall rating
Requires improvement15 Feb 2023rating 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 3 years old, and 2 of this operator's 2 rated homes are below Good.

Below Good on
EffectiveRequires improvement15 Feb 2023rating 3+ yrs old
Well-ledRequires improvement15 Feb 2023rating 3+ yrs old
Age of rating
3 years old — published 15 Feb 2023. CQC has not re-inspected since; a re-inspection could move it in either direction.
Operator's wider portfolio
2 of 2 of SAS Care Group 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 questionRatingPublished
SafeGoodrating 3+ yrs old15 Feb 2023
EffectiveRequires improvementrating 3+ yrs old15 Feb 2023
CaringGoodrating 3+ yrs old15 Feb 2023
ResponsiveGoodrating 3+ yrs old15 Feb 2023
Well-ledRequires improvementrating 3+ yrs old15 Feb 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

Same operator — 1 other location

Other active services registered to SAS Care Group Ltd. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.

NameOverall rating (published)Local authority
Lake View Nursing HomeRequires improvement8 Mar 2023rating 3+ yrs oldStoke-on-Trent

Data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

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Provenance & registration
Registered with CQC
2 Mar 2026
Beds
60
Sector
Social Care Org
On CQC’s site
cqc.org.uk/location/1-26445623040

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.