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Community based adult social care services

Home First - Stafford

Greyfriars - Stafford Therapy Centre, Stafford, ST16 2ST · Staffordshire · West Midlands

Community based adult social care services · operated by Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

CQC overall rating
Requires improvement8 Jan 2021rating 3+ yrs old

Diligence verdict

Rated Requires improvement overall, and the rating is 5 years old, and 1 of this operator's 7 rated homes are below Good.

Below Good on
CaringRequires improvement7 Aug 2019rating 3+ yrs old
ResponsiveRequires improvement7 Aug 2019rating 3+ yrs old
Age of rating
5 years old — published 8 Jan 2021. CQC has not re-inspected since; a re-inspection could move it in either direction.
Operator's wider portfolio
1 of 7 of Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust'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 old8 Jan 2021
EffectiveGoodrating 3+ yrs old7 Aug 2019
CaringRequires improvementrating 3+ yrs old7 Aug 2019
ResponsiveRequires improvementrating 3+ yrs old7 Aug 2019
Well-ledGoodrating 3+ yrs old8 Jan 2021

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 — 6 other locations

Other active services registered to Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.

NameOverall rating (published)Local authority
Home First - CannockGood8 Aug 2019rating 3+ yrs oldStaffordshire
Home First - East StaffsGood5 Jun 2019rating 3+ yrs oldStaffordshire
Home First - Lichfield & TamworthGood3 Jul 2019rating 3+ yrs oldStaffordshire
Home First - NewcastleGood10 Jul 2019rating 3+ yrs oldStaffordshire
Home First - South StaffordshireGood17 Jul 2019rating 3+ yrs oldStaffordshire
Home First - StokeGood6 Feb 2020rating 3+ yrs oldStoke-on-Trent

Data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

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Provenance & registration
Registered with CQC
11 Jun 2018
Service type
Community based adult social care services
Sector
NHS Healthcare Organisation
On CQC’s site
cqc.org.uk/location/RREU2

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.