Home care agency
Nightingales Homecare
Home care agency in Oldham
Nightingales Homecare
Home care agency in Oldham
What do these badges mean?
- 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).
- Peaceful Neighbourhood — Among the lowest for recorded anti-social behaviour and public disorder of comparable areas (police-recorded crime).
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About
Nightingales Homecare is a home care agency based in Oldham, Greater Manchester. It delivers care and support to people in their own homes, with a particular focus on dementia. The agency supports older people, younger adults, and people with physical disabilities, mental health conditions, sensory impairment, learning disabilities, substance misuse, and eating disorders.
Nightingales Homecare was rated Good by the Care Quality Commission in 2019, achieving Good ratings across all five key questions: Safe, Effective, Caring, Responsive and Well-led.
What inspectors found
CQC: GoodReport published 15 July 2019 · Last inspected 5 July 2019
Inspectors visited Nightingales Homecare, a domiciliary care agency supporting 160 people in their own homes, in July 2019 and rated it Good overall. Staff were described as kind and caring, and people said communication was open and transparent. Staff teams were regular, which helped continuity, and calls were usually on time or staff let people know when they would be late.
- Medicines were managed in line with good practice guidance.
- Risks to people's health, safety and wellbeing were assessed and managed through plans.
- Complaints were investigated and used to improve the service, and people felt confident raising them.
- The management team had the knowledge and experience to run the service safely, and a positive culture was evident.
- Care plans needed to be more person-centred so staff had the information they needed to meet people's preferences. The service arranged to gather this information during the inspection.
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
What's nearby
Straight-line distances.
What’s in the area
Outdoor Spaces
- AllotmentsAmple
- Play SpaceAmple
- Golf CourseSparse
- Public ParkAmple
- Tennis CourtAdequate
- Bowling GreenAmple
- Playing FieldPlentiful
Local Amenities
- Pubs & BarsAmple
- Restaurants & CafesAdequate
- Retail ShoppingAmple
- SupermarketsAmple
- TakeawaysAmple
What home care costs
Estimated typical UK ranges — Nightingales Homecare will give you a written quote after a free needs assessment. Check who pays with the funding calculator.
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Local health safety net
Nightingales Homecare is backed by a local NHS health network. The nearest A&E is Royal Oldham Hospital, 0.6 miles away. The local GP practice is THE ROYTON & CROMPTON FAMILY PRACTICE, 0.6 miles away, rated ‘Good’ by the CQC.
Nearest services from NHS ODS + postcodes.io + CQC, by straight-line distance.
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