Helping Hands Cosham
44b, Portsmouth, PO6 3AG · Portsmouth · South East
What the record says
Rated Good overall, but the rating is 4 years old, and 3 of this operator's 134 rated services are below Good.
- Age of rating
- 4 years old — published 27 Aug 2022, and no newer rating had been published by 1 Sep 2026. A re-inspection could move it in either direction.
- This operator's rated services
- Of Midshires Care Limited's 134 rated services, 3 are below Good — not this one. See the operator.
Verbatim CQC ratings, each dated · data as at 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
- Care type
- Care at home (visits)
- Registered with CQC
- 29 Jun 2020
- Run by
- Midshires Care Limited
- Part of
- Midshires Care Ltd · 151 services
- Phone
- 02392009344
- Website
- www.helpinghands.co.uk
Contact details as recorded by CQC — we don’t hold fees, vacancies or waiting lists, so those are worth asking about directly.
Who this service supports
The groups this service is registered with CQC to support. Registration says who a service may care for — it is not a quality judgement, and it is not a recommendation.
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Care at home (visits)
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Data as published by CQC to 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
The five key questions
| Key question | Rating | Published |
|---|---|---|
| Safe | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 27 Aug 2022 |
| Effective | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 27 Aug 2022 |
| Caring | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 27 Aug 2022 |
| Responsive | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 27 Aug 2022 |
| Well-led | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 27 Aug 2022 |
Ratings verbatim as published by CQC. Key questions can carry different dates when CQC re-inspects only part of a service.
Data as published by CQC to 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
Same operator — 149 other locations
Other active services registered to Midshires Care Limited. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.
| Name | Overall rating (published) | Local authority |
|---|---|---|
| Helping Hands Accrington | Good, published 6 Jan 2025 | Lancashire |
| Helping Hands Aintree | Good, published 6 Jun 2023rating 3+ yrs old | Liverpool |
| Helping Hands Arnold | Good, published 12 Aug 2022rating 3+ yrs old | Nottinghamshire |
| Helping Hands Aylesbury | Requires improvement, published 23 Mar 2026 | Buckinghamshire |
| Helping Hands Barnet | Good, published 30 Jan 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Enfield |
| Helping Hands Barnsley | Good, published 11 Jun 2022rating 3+ yrs old | Barnsley |
| Helping Hands Basildon | Good, published 27 Mar 2020rating 3+ yrs old | Essex |
| Helping Hands Basingstoke | Good, published 3 Nov 2022rating 3+ yrs old | Hampshire |
| Helping Hands Bath | Good, published 29 Apr 2022rating 3+ yrs old | Bath and North East Somerset |
| Helping Hands Bedford | Not yet rated | Bedford |
| Helping Hands Beverley | Good, published 28 Jun 2023rating 3+ yrs old | East Riding of Yorkshire |
| Helping Hands Birmingham | Good, published 21 May 2021rating 3+ yrs old | Birmingham |
…and 137 more. See the full group view.
Data as published by CQC to 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
CQC publishes registrations and ratings. It holds nothing at all about fees, current vacancies, staffing levels, or the building itself — there is no field anywhere for door widths, hoists, wet rooms or ground-floor rooms. So no site, including this one, can tell you those. They are worth asking directly — the number is above.
- What are the fees, and what do they not include?
- Do you have a vacancy now, and would you hold a room?
- How many staff are on at night, and how are transfers staffed?
- What change in someone’s needs would mean they had to move, and can I see that in the contract?
More on what actually decides a good home-care agency at choosing home care.
- What to ask a home care agencyContinuity of carer, missed visits, who answers at 8pm — the questions that actually decide it.
- Coming out of hospitalIf this follows a hospital stay: the discharge decision, reablement, and what to ask the ward.
- Ask the council for a needs assessmentFree, whatever the savings, and the formal route to arranged care and funding.
- Understand who paysThe means test, what happens to the home, and NHS Continuing Healthcare.
- How to read this ratingWhat the words mean, the five key questions, and why the date matters.
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Nearest first — a place to look around, not a ranking. Other home-care agencies within 5 miles, registered for at least one of the same groups this service supports. Distance is straight line between registered addresses — for an agency that is its office, not where the care happens, so ask whether they cover the postcode. Not an assessment of anyone’s needs.
- 1 Noble Healthcare Ltdabout 0.1 miles · PortsmouthNot yet rated
- Admiral Care Limitedabout 0.1 miles · PortsmouthInadequate, published 21 May 2026
- We Care 24x7 Limitedabout 0.1 miles · PortsmouthNot yet rated
- Universal Care Agency Ltdabout 0.5 miles · PortsmouthGood, published 11 Jun 2025
- Sector
- Social Care Org
- On CQC’s site
- cqc.org.uk/location/1-9043349591
Every rating on this page is shown verbatim as CQC published it, each with its own publication date. Data as at 1 Sep 2026 — as published by CQC, bulk files of 01 Sep 2026 · source: CQC · data & methods.