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Rated:InadequateNursing

West Ridings Care Home

Off Lingwell Gate Lane, Lofthouse, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF3 3JX
01924826806
Care Type

Nursing Care

Assessment date

26 September 2025

Provider

Advinia Care Homes Limited

Beds

180 beds

About West Ridings Care Home

West Ridings Care Home is a nursing home in Wakefield, providing care for adults with a range of needs including mental health conditions, physical disabilities and dementia. Details of the most recent CQC assessment are set out below.

West Ridings Care Home provides nursing and personal care for up to 180 people, including those with mental health conditions, physical disabilities and dementia. At the time of the assessment, 75 people were living there across three operating units. The CQC rated the service inadequate overall and it remains in special measures, with continuing breaches around safe care, staffing and management oversight.

Inspectors found risks and medication were not always managed safely, care plans were sometimes inaccurate or not followed, and staffing levels left people waiting too long for help. Some people and relatives described kind staff, but overall the service was not consistently caring or well organised, and recent management changes had been poorly communicated to people and their families.

Source: CQC assessment, 31 December 2025

Specialist Care

DementiaMental healthOlder 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 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
180 places — this is not a vacancy count
Registration checked
Registered · WF3 3JX

Registered care categories

Caring for adults over 65 yrs; Caring for adults under 65 yrs; Dementia; Mental health conditions; 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: Inadequate.

Assessment published 31 December 2025. Assessment date recorded: 26 September 2025.

Read CQC's assessment overview

The following is CQC's published account of its assessment, published 31 December 2025. References to “we” mean CQC. It describes findings at that time.

Date of Assessment: 6, 13 and 15 October 2025. West Ridings Care Home is a care home that can accommodate up to 180 people who require support with nursing or personal care needs, mental health conditions and physical disabilities, some of whom were living with dementia. At the time of our assessment there were 75 people using the service. The service had 6 separate units, and care was provided in 3 of those units.

The provider was previously in breach of legal regulations related to person centred care, safe care and treatment, staffing and good governance. At this assessment we continued to find those regulations were being breached.

This assessment was prompted by continued concerns which we had received about the service in relation to safeguarding incidents, clinical risks, people’s care not being well managed and management of the service.

We continued to find serious issues with the lack of effective management and oversight at the service. There was a new management team in place and some of the issues identified at the previous assessment, where enforcement action had been taken, continued to be observed at this assessment.

People did not always receive safe care. Risks to people's care were not always managed well or had not been properly identified and acted upon. People's medication was not always managed safely.

The provider did not always ensure people received person-centred care and treatment. Some people's care plans were inaccurate, lacked information about people's needs or were not being followed. There were activities happening at the service, but the provision wasn't always consistent or dementia friendly.

Quality assurance processes had not always been effective in identifying the issues found at this assessment and in driving improvements.

This service remains in special measures. The purpose of special measures is to ensure that services providing inadequate care make significant improvements. Special measures provide a framework within which we use our enforcement powers in response to inadequate care and provide a timeframe within which providers must improve the quality of the care they provide.

In instances where CQC have decided to take civil or criminal enforcement action against a provider, we will publish this information on our website after any representations and/ or appeals have been concluded.

Safe
Inadequate
Effective
Requires Improvement
Caring
Requires Improvement
Responsive
Requires Improvement
Well-led
Inadequate

Questions prompted by these ratings

  • Safe: What changes have been made to medicines, staffing and safeguarding since this rating?
  • Effective: How are staff training, nutrition and health outcomes checked now?
  • Caring: How do staff protect privacy, dignity and each person’s choices?
  • Responsive: How are care plans, activities and complaints adapted to each resident?
  • Well-led: What has changed in management, checks and oversight since this rating?

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

Read West Ridings 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 West Ridings Care Home, consider asking...

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

5 Things to Look For on Your Visit

When you visit West Ridings Care Home, look out for...

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

Could the NHS fund West Ridings 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.

Location

Off Lingwell Gate Lane, Lofthouse, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF3 3JX

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West Ridings Care Home

CQC overall rating

Inadequate

Assessment date: 26 September 2025

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