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Care home

Northwood Nursing & Residential Care

206 Preston New Road, Blackburn, BB2 6PN · Blackburn with Darwen · North West

27 beds · operated by Northwood Complex Care Ltd, part of Zion Care

CQC overall rating
Good10 Sep 2024

Diligence verdict

Rated Good overall, but Well-led is Requires improvement (10 Sep 2024).

Below Good on
Well-ledRequires improvement10 Sep 2024
Operator's wider portfolio
All 2 of Northwood Complex Care Ltd's rated homes are Good or better. See the operator.

Verbatim CQC ratings, each dated · data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

The five key questions

Key questionRatingPublished
SafeGood10 Sep 2024
EffectiveGood10 Sep 2024
CaringGood10 Sep 2024
ResponsiveGood10 Sep 2024
Well-ledRequires improvement10 Sep 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 — 2 other locations

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

NameOverall rating (published)Local authority
Alpha Home AssistGood20 Mar 2019rating 3+ yrs oldBlackburn with Darwen
SandybrookNot yet ratedBlackburn with Darwen

Data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

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Provenance & registration
Registered with CQC
6 Jul 2017
Beds
27
Sector
Social Care Org
On CQC’s site
cqc.org.uk/location/1-3608385331

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.