Warberries Nursing Home

Lower Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon, TQ1 1QS

01803294563

Care Type

Nursing Care

Assessment date

26 June 2024

Provider

Margaret Rose Care Limited

Beds

49 beds

About Warberries Nursing Home

Warberries Nursing Home is a nursing home in Torbay, offering nursing and personal care for older people, including those living with dementia. Further details from the CQC's most recent inspection are set out below.

Warberries Nursing Home provides nursing and personal care for up to 49 people, including older people and those living with dementia. The CQC found the service had improved since its last inspection and was no longer in breach of regulations, with an overall rating of Good. Inspectors noted some further work was needed on the detail in care and medicines records.

People and relatives spoke positively about feeling safe and well cared for, describing staff and managers as approachable. Staff were recruited safely, trained appropriately, and worked well with health professionals. Most people felt there were enough staff to meet their needs, and the home was found to be clean with medicines managed appropriately.

Source: CQC assessment, 13 January 2025

Specialist Care

DementiaLearning disabilitiesMental healthOlder 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 21 September 2026. This is a check of published information, not a visit to the home.

Registered service: Care home service with nursing
Registered capacity: 49 places — this is not a vacancy count
Registration checked: Registered · TQ1 1QS

Registered care categories

Caring for adults over 65 yrs; Caring for adults under 65 yrs; Dementia; Learning disabilities; Mental health conditions; 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 13 January 2025. Assessment date recorded: 26 June 2024.

Read CQC's assessment overview

The following is CQC's published account of its assessment, published 13 January 2025. References to “we” mean CQC. It describes findings at that time.

Warberries Nursing Home provides accommodation for persons who require nursing or personal care for up to 49 people. The service provides support to older people including people living with dementia. At the time of this assessment there were 38 people living at the service. We carried out an unannounced onsite visit on the 21 August and returned announced on the 27 August 2024. Our off-site assessment activity concluded 10 September 2024. We carried out this assessment to follow up on improvements we asked the provider to complete at their last inspection in November 2023. At this assessment we assessed a total of 21 quality statements from the safe, effective, and well led key questions and found that the service had improved and was no longer in breach of regulations. However, there was some further improvement needed in relation to the level of detail in care/monitoring records and medicines records. The scores for the quality statements we assessed have been combined with scores based on the key question ratings from the last inspection. The overall rating of this service has changed to good.

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

Questions prompted by these ratings

Responsive: How are care plans, activities and complaints adapted to each resident?

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

Read Warberries Nursing 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 Warberries Nursing 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 Warberries Nursing 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 Warberries Nursing 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