Ash Lodge Care Home with Nursing
Nursing home in Smethwick, Sandwell
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- Green Surroundings — Excellent access to parks, playing fields and other green space nearby (OpenStreetMap).
- Well Served — Excellent everyday amenities nearby — shops, supermarkets, pharmacies, banks, post offices, cafés and places to eat (OpenStreetMap).
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About
Ash Lodge Care Home with Nursing is a 70-bed nursing home in Smethwick, in the Sandwell area of the West Midlands. It supports older people, younger adults, people with physical disabilities, people with mental health needs and people with sensory impairment. The Care Quality Commission rated the home Requires Improvement overall in its 2023 report. It graded the home Good for safety, caring and responsiveness, and Requires Improvement for effectiveness and well-led.
The home describes a settling-in process that invites residents to help make decisions about their move and to visit beforehand. Families can bring personal bedding, blankets and pieces of furniture, and the team works to a regular routine for meals, activities and bedtime, around clinical needs and medicine schedules. Relatives receive an update on the evening of arrival and again the next morning. The building has step-free access, accessible toilets and onsite parking for around 15 vehicles.
What inspectors found
CQC: Requires improvementReport published 11 July 2023 · Last inspected 10 May 2023
Inspectors rated the home Requires Improvement, down from Good at the previous inspection. Staff were described as knowing residents' risks and needs, with safeguarding, medicines handling and staffing judged adequate, and staff reported feeling supported and listened to by managers. Inspectors did find gaps in how the home applied mental capacity principles, with some capacity assessments and best-interest decisions lacking required information.
- Safeguarding systems and processes were in place to protect people from harm
- Medicines were handled safely and taken as prescribed
- Staffing numbers were sufficient to keep risk of harm to a minimum
- Staff felt well supported, valued in their roles and confident that concerns would be acted on
- Mental capacity assessments and best-interest decisions were incomplete for some people, placing them at risk of unlawful deprivation of liberty
Written by AI from the report text and checked against it. Not an official CQC statement. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Read the full report on CQC.
Care provided
Specialist care
Facilities
Food hygiene rating
Very good
Food Standards Agency · inspected October 2025
What's nearby
- Set back from main road noise
- Fire station about 850 m away
Straight-line distances. Road and rail noise from government strategic noise mapping (modelled, not measured). A&E departments from the NHS website. Locations © OpenStreetMap contributors.
What’s in the area
Outdoor Spaces
- AllotmentsPlentiful
- Play SpacePlentiful
- Golf CourseSparse
- Public ParkAmple
- Tennis CourtLimited
- Bowling GreenPlentiful
- Playing FieldAmple
Local Amenities
- Pubs & BarsAmple
- Restaurants & CafesAmple
- Retail ShoppingPlentiful
- SupermarketsAmple
- TakeawaysPlentiful
Local crime statistics
396 recorded crimes in the local area (July 2026)
Top categories:
Source: data.police.uk · within 1 mile
Fees and funding
| Care type | Weekly fee | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing care | Fees on request | — |
- Funding accepted
- Not stated
Fees depend on the room and the care needed, so ask the home for a written quote. Check who pays with the funding calculator, or see what Sandwell council pays.
Care fee trajectory
| Year | Council rate (per week) |
|---|---|
| 2024 | £834 |
| 2025 | £892 |
What Sandwell council pays care homes, and whether it will help with fees
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Local health safety net
Ash Lodge Care Home with Nursing is backed by a local NHS health network. The nearest A&E is Midland Metropolitan University Hospital, 1.4 miles away. The local GP practice is WARLEY ROAD SURGERY, 0.4 miles away, rated ‘Good’ by the CQC.
Nearest services from NHS ODS + postcodes.io + CQC, by straight-line distance.
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Information last reviewed October 2026.
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