Fordingbridge Care Home

Station Road, Fordingbridge, Hampshire, SP6 1JW

01425333101

Care Type

Nursing Care

Assessment date

28 March 2025

Provider

Sentinel Health Care Limited

Beds

63 beds

About Fordingbridge Care Home

Fordingbridge Care Home is a nursing home in Hampshire, providing personal care and support to older people. The findings below set out what the CQC observed during its most recent assessment.

Fordingbridge Care Home provides personal care and support to older people. The CQC assessed the service after concerns were raised about staff knowledge around falls management and medicines, and found it to be Good overall.

Inspectors found enough staff, robust recruitment, effective infection control and a positive learning culture. However, medicines records lacked personalised detail, care plans were sometimes generic, and mental capacity assessments were not always decision specific. People and relatives spoke warmly of staff, describing them as approachable and a big part of their lives.

Source: CQC assessment, 18 September 2025

Specialist Care

DementiaOlder peoplePhysical disabilitiesYounger 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.

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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: 63 places — this is not a vacancy count
Registration checked: Registered · SP6 1JW

Registered care categories

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

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 18 September 2025. Assessment date recorded: 28 March 2025.

Read CQC's assessment overview

The following is CQC's published account of its assessment, published 18 September 2025. References to “we” mean CQC. It describes findings at that time.

Date of Assessment: 24 April 2025 to 02 May 2025.
This assessment was carried out in response to concerns received about staff knowledge and skills in relation to meeting people’s support needs. This included how falls were managed and medicines management.
The registered manager promoted a positive learning culture and people could raise concerns.
Staff received training in safeguarding. Recent safeguarding referrals had been made appropriately.
There were enough staff to meet people’s needs. Systems and procedures for recruiting new staff were robust. Staff received training and completion of this was monitored.
There were effective processes to prevent and control infection. Regular audits were carried out to oversee the cleanliness and safety of the environment.
People’s medicines were mostly managed safely. However, there was some lack of sufficient individualised and personalised information within people’s medicines records.
People’s needs were assessed face to face prior to moving to the service. Care plans and risk assessments were sometimes generic and did not always contain clear guidance for staff.
People had not always been assessed for their mental capacity to consent to all aspects of their care. Additionally, not all mental capacity assessments we looked at were decision specific.
Systems and processes to assess, monitor and improve the quality and safety of the service were in place and mostly operated effectively. While we found there were areas for improvement within the service, the provider’s continuous improvement plan showed actions were taken when shortfalls in service provision were identified.
The provider had plans for ongoing refurbishment of the environment, and we saw evidence of work completed and in progress.
We received positive feedback from external health and social care professionals about how the service worked in partnership with them.

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

Questions prompted by these ratings

Effective: How are staff training, nutrition and health outcomes checked now?

These are questions for your visit, not a claim about conditions today.

Read Fordingbridge 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 Fordingbridge 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 Fordingbridge 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 Fordingbridge 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.

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