Home First - Stoke
Longton Cottage Hospital, Stoke-on-trent, ST3 4QX · Stoke-on-Trent · West Midlands
Community based adult social care services · operated by Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Diligence verdict
Rated Good overall, but Well-led is Requires improvement (6 Feb 2020), the rating is 6 years old, and 1 of this operator's 7 rated homes are below Good.
- Below Good on
- Well-ledRequires improvement6 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 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 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 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.
| Name | Overall rating (published) | Local authority |
|---|---|---|
| Home First - Cannock | Good8 Aug 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Staffordshire |
| Home First - East Staffs | Good5 Jun 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Staffordshire |
| Home First - Lichfield & Tamworth | Good3 Jul 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Staffordshire |
| Home First - Newcastle | Good10 Jul 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Staffordshire |
| Home First - South Staffordshire | Good17 Jul 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Staffordshire |
| Home First - Stafford | Requires improvement8 Jan 2021rating 3+ yrs old | Staffordshire |
Data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC
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- 11 Jun 2018
- Service type
- Community based adult social care services
- 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 11 Jul 2026 — as published by CQC, bulk files of 01–08 Jul 2026 · source: CQC · data & methods.