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Care home

The Links

1 Golf Links Road, Broadstone, BH18 8BE · Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole · South West

68 beds · operated by Bupa Care Homes (PT Links) Limited, part of BUPA Group

CQC overall rating
Outstanding3 Nov 2023

Diligence verdict

Rated Outstanding overall, but the rating is 2 years old.

Age of rating
2 years old — published 3 Nov 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 questionRatingPublished
SafeGood3 Nov 2023
EffectiveGoodrating 3+ yrs old10 Oct 2018
CaringGoodrating 3+ yrs old10 Oct 2018
ResponsiveOutstanding3 Nov 2023
Well-ledOutstanding3 Nov 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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Provenance & registration
Registered with CQC
26 Oct 2012
Beds
68
Sector
Social Care Org
On CQC’s site
cqc.org.uk/location/1-503803856

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.