Elm View Care Home

Moor Lane, Clevedon, Somerset, BS21 6EU

01275872088

Care Type

Nursing Care

Assessment date

30 July 2024

Provider

Bupa Care Homes (ANS) Limited

Beds

43 beds

Rating history

GoodMay 2016
Requires ImprovementNov 2018
GoodDec 2019
GoodOct 2024

Improved from Requires Improvement to Good in 2019. CQC has rated this home 4 times since 2016.

Source: CQC inspection reports. Contains CQC data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Costs and who runs this home

Run by Bupa Care Homes (ANS) Limited, which runs 28 care homes in England: 26 rated Good and 2 Requires Improvement.

Average care home fees in the South West: £1,170 a week for residential care and £1,472 for nursing care (2024-25 averages). Self-funders usually pay more. See our care home costs guide.

NHS-funded Nursing Care pays £267.68 a week to the home towards registered nursing care for eligible residents (2026/27). A quoted fee may already exclude it.
This home lists dementia care, which usually costs more than standard residential care. See dementia care home costs. NHS Continuing Healthcare may apply where someone's needs are primarily health needs.
How to pay for a care home explains the council means test, what counts as capital and the funding you can ask to be assessed for.

About Elm View Care Home

Elm View Care Home is a nursing home in North Somerset, providing nursing, respite, convalescent and palliative care for older people. Details of the most recent CQC findings are set out below.

Elm View Care Home is a purpose built home providing nursing, respite, convalescent and palliative care for older people, supporting 37 people at the time of assessment. The CQC rated the service Good overall. This followed an earlier finding of a breach in good governance, and inspectors confirmed the provider had since become compliant with the regulations.

People and relatives described staff as caring and said they felt safe and well looked after, with positive feedback and compliments recorded by the service. Some relatives raised concerns about call bell wait times, which could be frustrating, but overall the home was found to be well managed and responsive to people's needs.

Source: CQC assessment, 11 October 2024

Specialist Care

DementiaLearning disabilitiesOlder peoplePhysical disabilitiesSensory impairmentsYounger adults

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 with nursing
Registered capacity: 43 places — this is not a vacancy count
Registration checked: Registered · BS21 6EU

Registered care categories

Caring for adults over 65 yrs; Caring for adults under 65 yrs; Dementia; Learning disabilities; Physical disabilities; Sensory impairment.

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 11 October 2024. Assessment date recorded: 30 July 2024.

Read CQC's assessment overview

The following is CQC's published account of its assessment, published 11 October 2024. References to “we” mean CQC. It describes findings at that time.

Date of assessment: 12 Aug to 30 Aug 2024. Elm View Care Home is a purpose built care home, providing nursing, respite, convalescent and palliative care for older people. At the time of our assessment 37 people lived at the service. We visited the service on 28 August 2024. We spoke with people who use the service, their relatives and staff from 12 August 2024 to 28 August 2024. At our last assessment in February 2024 we identified a breach of the legal regulation good governance. Following our findings the provider submitted an action plan. The purpose of this assessment was to follow up on the action plan and the identified breaches and determine if the service was now compliant with the regulations. This assessment has not changed the overall rating. The service remains good. At this assessment we found the service was now compliant with the regulations.

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

Read Elm View 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 Elm View 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 Elm View 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 Elm View 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