Boughton Lodge Care Home

105 Boughton Green Road, Kingsthorpe, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN2 7SU

01604720323

Care Type

Residential Care

Assessment date

19 August 2024

Provider

Kingsthorpe Care Limited

Beds

19 beds

About Boughton Lodge Care Home

Boughton Lodge Care Home is a residential care home in West Northamptonshire, providing accommodation and personal care for older people. Details of the most recent CQC inspection are set out below.

Boughton Lodge Care Home provides accommodation and personal care for up to 19 older people. The home previously required improvement, when inspectors found failures in managing risks, medicines, infection control and safeguarding, along with weak governance. Following the latest assessment, the CQC found these issues had been addressed and the home is now rated good overall.

People living at the home said they felt safe and comfortable with staff, who they described as caring and competent. Relatives felt able to raise concerns, and feedback was actively encouraged. Inspectors saw staff offering choice and time to residents, with good access to activities and community contact.

Source: CQC assessment, 8 January 2025

Specialist Care

DementiaOlder people

Fees and availability

We have not verified a current weekly fee for this home. Ask for a written quote based on the room and care needed, including any extra charges.

Check current vacancies, the admission assessment and visiting arrangements directly with the home.

Care and inspection details

Checked against the CQC register on 20 September 2026. This is a check of published information, not a visit to the home.

Registered service: Care home service without nursing
Registered capacity: 19 places — this is not a vacancy count
Registration checked: Registered · NN2 7SU

Registered care categories

Caring for adults over 65 yrs; Dementia.

These describe the registration. The home must assess whether it can meet the individual person's needs and whether a place is available.

CQC ratings in more detail

Overall rating shown by CQC: Good.

Assessment published 8 January 2025. Assessment date recorded: 19 August 2024.

Read CQC's assessment overview

The following is CQC's published account of its assessment, published 8 January 2025. References to “we” mean CQC. It describes findings at that time.

Date of assessment 2 to 24 September 2024. Boughton Lodge Care Home is a care home registered to provide accommodation, personal care and support to older people. The service can provide care and support to up to 19 people. For this assessment, we looked at all the quality statements in the safe, effective and well led key questions. At the last inspection, the service was rated requires improvement. At that time, we found the provider had failed to assess, monitor and mitigate risks to people, to the environment, infection prevention and with the management of medicines. Safeguarding concerns had not always been reported to the appropriate authorities, equipment had not always been maintained and safe recruitment practices had not always been followed. Governance systems did not always assess, monitor and mitigate the risks. At this assessment we found improvements had been made and the provider was no longer in breach of regulations. For this assessment, the service has received a rating of good for all quality statements assessed. The ratings for the quality statements we did not assess remain unchanged. This means the overall rating for the service has changed to good.

Safe: Good
Effective: Good
Caring: Good
Responsive: Good
Well-led: Good

Read Boughton Lodge Care Home's CQC record and reports.

Contains Care Quality Commission information under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Ratings and registration details can change after the date checked.

5 Questions to Ask on Your Visit

When visiting Boughton Lodge Care Home, consider asking...

1.What specific dementia training do staff receive and how recently?
2.How do you support a resident who becomes distressed or confused?
3.How does the home keep a record of a resident's life history and personal preferences?
4.How do you involve families as dementia progresses and communication becomes harder?
5.What happens when a resident's dementia reaches an advanced stage?

5 Things to Look For on Your Visit

When you visit Boughton Lodge Care Home, look out for...

1.Is the environment calm, uncluttered and easy to navigate?
2.Do staff speak to residents with patience and dignity, even if they repeat themselves?
3.Are there memory cues around the home -- photos, familiar objects, clear signage?
4.Do residents seem settled and safe, or agitated and unsupervised?
5.Is there meaningful activity happening, or are residents just sitting quietly with nothing to do?

Could the NHS fund Boughton Lodge Care Home's fees?

The average nursing home costs £1,535 per week. That's £79,820 a year. NHS Continuing Healthcare could cover all of it. No means test, no contribution from you.

Find out if the NHS could fund these fees