What should be asked when visiting a care home in Oxted?

Ask about staffing on each shift, overnight included, and how heavily the home depends on agency staff. Find out what happens if a resident's needs move beyond personal care, since none of these homes is registered for nursing. Ask for the fee schedule in writing and for the notice period that applies on both sides. Visit at a mealtime, and ideally more than once at different times of day.

What is the difference between a care home and a nursing home?

A residential care home provides personal care from care staff, covering help with washing, dressing, meals and prompting medication. A nursing home carries a further registration for clinical nursing, with registered nurses on duty at every hour. That allows wound care, tube feeding, catheter management or palliative nursing to be managed without community nurses calling in. All five homes listed for Oxted are residential, so clinical needs may eventually require a move.

Can Surrey County Council fund a care home placement?

Surrey County Council can fund or contribute towards a placement where the needs assessment confirms residential care is appropriate and the financial assessment shows capital below the upper threshold. Above that threshold the fees are met privately, although an assessment of needs is still worth having on record. A deferred payment agreement may be available where the capital is largely held in a property. Where the council rate falls short of a home's fee, ask in writing who would be liable for the difference.

How is a care needs assessment arranged in Oxted?

Contact Surrey County Council and request an adult social care needs assessment, which anyone can ask for, including a relative acting with the person's consent. There is no charge and the outcome is not affected by how much money the person has. An assessor will go through daily living, mobility, medication, continence and night time needs before recommending a level of care. If the person is in hospital, the discharge team usually starts it, though you are entitled to follow it up directly.

How far in advance should a family start looking?

It pays to look while a move is still some way off rather than once the decision has become urgent. Six to eight weeks gives room for repeat visits, a careful read of the reports and a resolved funding position. A hospital discharge rarely allows that long, which is why a shortlist prepared in advance is worth having. If a suitable room comes free sooner, many homes will hold it for a short period against a deposit.

Care Homes in Oxted

Q: Which care homes are listed for Oxted?

Five residential care homes cover Oxted: Wolfe House Care Home, David Gresham House, Ridgeway Manor Residential Care Home, Ormesby House and Champions Place. Wolfe House Care Home, David Gresham House, Ormesby House and Champions Place are each rated Good by the Care Quality Commission. Ridgeway Manor Residential Care Home holds a rating of Requires Improvement. Every profile links through to the inspection report behind its rating.

Oxted has 5 CQC registered care homes. 3 are rated Good, 2 Requires improvement. 3 of the 5 were last inspected more than three years ago.

Source: Care Quality Commission register, kept up to date as ratings change.

Oxted at a glance

What the local numbers say about care for older people in Oxted, to help you judge the options below.

Surrey County Council pays, residential care: £952 a week. Self-funders are typically asked £1,654 to £1,931, median £1,772
Care home beds filled across Surrey: 88%. The 12 month average is 87%.
Care home beds per 1,000 people aged 75+: 91. Surrey average is 90.
People aged 75 and over: 10,600. Rising to 12,100 by 2035, up 15%
Care homes, last 12 months: 0 opened, 1 closed. 2 changed owner, covering 122 beds.
Who pays, across Surrey (estimate): 32% council, 52% self. The rest is NHS funded or other.
Living with dementia, aged 65 and over (estimate): 1,400. Rising to 1,700 by 2035, up 24%
People aged 85 and over: 3,100. Rising to 4,600 by 2035, up 49%

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What residential care in Oxted involves and what to look for

A residential care home is staffed to provide personal care rather than clinical treatment, which is the single most important thing to establish before viewing anywhere. Help with washing, dressing, continence, meals and prompting medication is provided by care staff, with a district nurse visiting where a dressing or an injection is needed. None of the five homes listed here is registered for nursing care, so it is worth asking at the outset how each one handles a resident whose health declines.

Making sense of the inspection results

Wolfe House Care Home, David Gresham House, Ormesby House and Champions Place are each rated Good. Ridgeway Manor Residential Care Home currently holds a rating of Requires Improvement, which reflects one inspection on one set of dates rather than a reason to rule it out. Read which of the five assessed areas fell short, check how recent the report is, and ask the manager what has changed since.

Questions a viewing should answer

Ask how many care staff are on duty by day and overnight, and how much agency cover the home uses. Request the fee schedule in writing, along with whatever would move a resident to a higher band. Call in around a mealtime, because the way people needing help to eat are supported tells you more than any brochure. Ask as well what notice period applies on either side.

Getting an assessment and arranging the funding

The care needs assessment comes before any contract and establishes whether residential care is the right level of support in the first place. It is free, open to anyone who asks, and a relative can request it with the person's consent. Surrey County Council is responsible for carrying out that assessment and the financial assessment that follows it, and where a hospital stay is involved the discharge team will normally start the process off.

How the financial assessment works

Savings, income and usually the value of a property are measured against the national capital thresholds. Capital above the upper threshold means fees are met privately, while below the lower threshold only income is taken into account. A deferred payment arrangement can delay the sale of a property where most of the capital is tied up in it.

What to expect on fees

Residential fees across this part of the South East sit above the national average, and the homes covering Oxted are priced accordingly. Attendance allowance and the daily living part of personal independence payment are not means tested and are frequently overlooked by people paying their own way. Where a council contribution is less than a home's private rate, confirm in writing whether a third party payment is expected.

5 care homes in Oxted

David Gresham House · Oxted, Surrey · CQC Good
Ridgeway Manor Residential Care Home · Oxted, Surrey · CQC Requires improvement
Ormesby House · Oxted, Surrey · CQC Good
Champions Place · Oxted, Surrey · CQC Good
Wolfe House Care Home · Oxted, Surrey · CQC Requires improvement

What care costs in Surrey, per week

Type of care	What the council pays	What self-funders are typically asked
Residential care Middle half of prices from 18 Surrey homes. Median £1,772.	£952	£1,654 to £1,931
Nursing care Middle half of prices from 13 Surrey homes. Median £2,025.	£988	£1,920 to £2,155
Residential dementia care Middle half of prices from 14 Surrey homes. Median £1,842.	Not published separately	£1,725 to £2,020
Nursing dementia care South East figure, because too few Surrey homes publish this price. 37 homes. Median £2,050.	Not published separately	£1,975 to £2,226

Published prices are often starting prices, and come from homes that publish fees, so treat them as a guide. Ask the home for its own price. Powered by Orrery Intelligence.

Inspected most recently

Wolfe House Care Home, 3 June 2026, Requires improvement
Champions Place, 29 January 2026, Good
Ridgeway Manor Residential Care Home, 11 October 2022, Requires improvement

Longest since a report

Ormesby House, 25 October 2019, Good
David Gresham House, 3 April 2020, Good
Ridgeway Manor Residential Care Home, 11 October 2022, Requires improvement

Frequently asked questions about care homes in Oxted

How many care homes are there in Oxted?

Oxted has 5 CQC registered care homes: 3 Good, 2 Requires improvement. Counts come from the CQC register and are kept up to date as ratings change.

How much does a care home cost in Oxted?

Surrey County Council pays an average of £952 a week for residential care. Self-funders are typically asked £1,654 to £1,931 a week. Middle half of prices from 18 Surrey homes. Median £1,772. Published prices are often starting prices, and come from homes that publish fees, so treat them as a guide. Ask the home for its own price.

Which care homes in Oxted were inspected most recently?

Wolfe House Care Home (3 June 2026), Champions Place (29 January 2026) and Ridgeway Manor Residential Care Home (11 October 2022) have the most recent CQC reports.

Local care news in Surrey

New 30 bed care home registered with CQC in Waverley: Bridge House Care Home (5 November 2026)
CQC register adds a new care home in Waverley: Cedar Court Care Home (5 November 2026)

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