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St Stephen's Care Home

St Stephens Terrace, Worcester, WR3 7HU · Worcestershire · West Midlands

51 beds · operated by GCH (Midlands) Ltd, part of Gold Care Homes

CQC overall rating
Requires improvement11 Dec 2024

Diligence verdict

Rated Requires improvement overall, and 1 of this operator's 4 rated homes are below Good.

Below Good on
SafeRequires improvement11 Dec 2024
Well-ledRequires improvement11 Dec 2024
Operator's wider portfolio
1 of 4 of GCH (Midlands) Ltd'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
SafeRequires improvement11 Dec 2024
EffectiveGood11 Dec 2024
CaringGood11 Dec 2024
ResponsiveGood11 Dec 2024
Well-ledRequires improvement11 Dec 2024

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 — 3 other locations

Other active services registered to GCH (Midlands) Ltd. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.

NameOverall rating (published)Local authority
Bletchley House Residential Care and Nursing HomeGood29 Dec 2025Milton Keynes
Lucton HouseGood22 Nov 2018rating 3+ yrs oldBirmingham
Manor HouseOutstanding22 Dec 2017rating 3+ yrs oldBirmingham

Data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

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Provenance & registration
Registered with CQC
11 May 2017
Beds
51
Sector
Social Care Org
On CQC’s site
cqc.org.uk/location/1-3583146841

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.