Care home

St Paul's Residential Home

Care home in Gloucester, Gloucestershire

St Paul's Residential Home

Care home in Gloucester, Gloucestershire

CQC Requires improvement32 beds
NeighbourhoodCultural HubGreen SurroundingsWell ServedPeaceful Neighbourhood
What do these badges mean?
  • Cultural Hub — An excellent range of libraries, museums, galleries, theatres and community venues within easy reach (OpenStreetMap).
  • 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).
Address127 Stroud Road, Gloucester, GL1 5JL
Beds32

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About

St Paul's Residential Home is a 32-bed care home in Gloucester, Gloucestershire. It provides residential care for older adults. The home was rated Requires Improvement by the Care Quality Commission in 2023. The CQC found that safety and leadership required improvement, while the home was rated Good for effectiveness, caring and responsiveness to residents' needs.

What inspectors found

CQC: Requires improvement

Report published 14 June 2023 · Last inspected 4 May 2023

Inspectors found the home has improved since its last inspection, with stronger quality checks on safety and clearer feedback systems. Residents and relatives said they feel safe and value the staff, and leadership was described as having improved noticeably. Some processes, including medicines recording, repositioning records and recruitment, still need more time to become fully embedded in everyday practice.

Strengths noted
  • Risks to people are now assessed, managed safely and checked regularly
  • Safeguarding systems are in place to protect people from abuse
  • Residents and relatives feel safe and speak positively about staff
  • Leadership is seen by people, relatives, staff and professionals as having improved significantly
Areas to improve
  • Medicines recording, repositioning records and recruitment processes need more time to be fully put into practice
  • A continued breach relating to good governance was identified, and a recommendation was made about staff recruitment

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.

Food hygiene rating

Very good

Food Standards Agency · inspected August 2026

What's nearby

GP surgery150 m
A&E: Gloucestershire Royal Hospital1.0 miles
  • Near a main road

Straight-line distances. Road and rail noise from government strategic noise mapping (modelled, not measured). A&E departments from the NHS website.

What’s in the area

Outdoor Spaces

  • AllotmentsAmple
  • Play SpaceAmple
  • Golf CourseLimited
  • Public ParkPlentiful
  • Tennis CourtAmple
  • Bowling GreenAmple
  • Playing FieldPlentiful

Local Amenities

  • Pubs & BarsPlentiful
  • Restaurants & CafesPlentiful
  • Retail ShoppingPlentiful
  • SupermarketsPlentiful
  • TakeawaysPlentiful

Local crime statistics

1 recorded crimes in the local area (June 2026)

Top categories:

Other theft100%

Source: data.police.uk · within 1 mile

Fees and funding

Care typeWeekly feeSource
Residential careFees 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 Gloucestershire council pays.

Care fee trajectory

Indicative weekly fee by year, against what Gloucestershire pays care homes.
YearCouncil rate (per week)
2024£887
2025£923

What Gloucestershire council pays care homes, and whether it will help with fees

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Local health safety net

St Paul's Residential Home is backed by a local NHS health network. The nearest A&E is Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, 1 miles away. The local GP practice is PARTNERS IN HEALTH, PAVILION FAMILY DRS, 0.1 miles away.

Nearest hospital · A&E
Gloucestershire Royal Hospital · 1 mi
Nearest GP
PARTNERS IN HEALTH, PAVILION FAMILY DRS · 0.1 mi

Nearest services from NHS ODS + postcodes.io + CQC, by straight-line distance.

Community & connection in Gloucester

Local clubs, charities and support groups that help older residents stay active and connected.

Charity

The Mothers' Union - Gloucester Diocese

Help is given by members to the Prison Play Area at Leyhill Prison; to the Mother and Baby Unit at Eastwood Park Prison; to Parenting Courses and to a Child Contact Centre at Cheltenham and at…

0.2 miles away · Source: Charity Commission (249912)
Charity

Black Elders Day Centre of Gloucester

The Black Elders Day Centre operates within the County of Gloucestershire and delivers Day Care to African Caribbean Elders, (but not exclusively) aged 50 and over. Specially to the frail, elderly…

0.5 miles away · Source: Charity Commission (900388)
Charity

Charlies Community Support

To promote the relief of people who have, or who have had cancer, and their families and carers across Gloucestershire, by the provision of a range of person-centre holistic therapies and support…

0.6 miles away · Source: Charity Commission (1205184)
Charity

Age Concern Gloucestershire

The objectives of Age Concern Gloucestershire are to promote the well being of all older people and help make later life a fulfilling and enjoyable experience. The Charity delivers its charitable…

1.9 miles away · Source: Charity Commission (1111773)
Charity

Churchdown (Glos) Age Concern

1 To run a luncheon club, twice a month. 2 To own and operate a fully accessible mini-bus, to support (1) above and other organisations in Churchdown & surrounding districts.

3.7 miles away · Source: Charity Commission (282454)
Charity

Gloucestershire Older Persons Association

Support for:older persons forums & seniors networks.older peoples resource hubs.local authorities, nhs trusts & other bodies are increasingly required & want to consult with older people. through…

6.8 miles away · Source: Charity Commission (1124977)

Information last reviewed October 2026.

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