Home First - Stoke
Longton Cottage Hospital, Stoke-on-trent, ST3 4QX · Stoke-on-Trent · West Midlands
What the record says
Rated Good overall, but Well-led is Requires improvement (6 Feb 2020), the rating is 6 years old, and 1 of this operator's 6 rated services are below Good.
- Below Good on
- Well-ledRequires improvement, published 6 Feb 2020rating 3+ yrs old
- Age of rating
- 6 years old — published 6 Feb 2020. CQC has not re-inspected since; a re-inspection could move it in either direction.
- Operator's wider portfolio
- 1 of 6 of Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust's rated services are Requires improvement or Inadequate.
Verbatim CQC ratings, each dated · data as at 8 Jul 2026 · source: CQC
- Care type
- Care at home (visits)
- Registered with CQC
- 11 Jun 2018
- Run by
- Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
- Phone
- 01782275041
- Website
- www.sssft.nhs.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 8 Jul 2026 · source: CQC
The five key questions
| Key question | Rating | Published |
|---|---|---|
| Safe | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 6 Feb 2020 |
| Effective | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 6 Feb 2020 |
| Caring | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 6 Feb 2020 |
| Responsive | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 6 Feb 2020 |
| Well-led | Requires improvementrating 3+ yrs old | 6 Feb 2020 |
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 8 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.
| Name | Overall rating (published) | Local authority |
|---|---|---|
| Home First - Cannock | Good, published 8 Aug 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Staffordshire |
| Home First - East Staffs | Good, published 5 Jun 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Staffordshire |
| Home First - Lichfield & Tamworth | Good, published 3 Jul 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Staffordshire |
| Home First - Newcastle | Good, published 10 Jul 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Staffordshire |
| Home First - South Staffordshire | Good, published 17 Jul 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Staffordshire |
| Home First - Stafford | Requires improvement, published 8 Jan 2021rating 3+ yrs old | Staffordshire |
Data as published by CQC to 8 Jul 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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Other services in Stoke-on-trentregistered for at least one of the same groups this service supports, listed with the strongest CQC ratings first. A place to look around — not a recommendation, and not an assessment of anyone’s needs.
- Independent SupportStoke-on-trentOutstanding, published 29 Jun 2019rating 3+ yrs old
- AR1 HomecareStoke-on-trentGood, published 13 Feb 2019rating 3+ yrs old
- Archangel Home Care - Staffordshire BranchStoke-on-trentGood, published 16 Jun 2021rating 3+ yrs old
- Bagnall Heights Domiciliary ServiceStoke-on-trentGood, published 15 May 2019rating 3+ yrs old
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- Sector
- NHS Healthcare Organisation
- On CQC’s site
- cqc.org.uk/location/RREU6
Every rating on this page is shown verbatim as CQC published it, each with its own publication date. Data as at 8 Jul 2026 — as published by CQC, bulk files of 01–08 Jul 2026 · source: CQC · data & methods.