Nursing Homes in Blackpool

Blackpool has 16 CQC registered nursing homes. 8 are rated Good, 4 Outstanding, 4 Requires improvement. 10 of the 16 were last inspected more than three years ago.

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

What Nursing Home Care in Blackpool Involves and What to Look For

All sixteen homes gathered here hold registration for nursing, which puts a registered nurse in charge of clinical care on every shift. That is what allows wounds, complex medication regimes and unstable long term conditions to be managed on the premises rather than through repeated hospital involvement. Beyond that shared requirement the homes differ considerably, and with judgements running from Outstanding to Requires Improvement, the comparison is genuinely worth doing properly.

Deciding Whether Nursing Is the Right Level

Not everyone who needs to move needs nursing. Help with washing, dressing, meals and prompting with medication, with no clinical element, often points towards a residential home at a lower cost. Pressure wounds, a feeding tube, unstable diabetes or a diagnosis expected to advance point firmly towards nursing registration. Ask each home directly which needs it can take on and which would prompt a referral elsewhere, since that answer determines whether a placement is likely to hold.

Where the Judgements Fall

Four homes hold an Outstanding rating, which is an unusual concentration in one area: Brooklands Nursing and Care Home, North Shore Nursing Home, Ryecourt Nursing Home and St Stephens Nursing Home. Eight are rated Good, among them Acorn Nursing Home, Amber Court, Belsfield House, Broadway Nursing Home, Gilwood Lodge, The Arc, Farthings Nursing Home and Nightingales Nursing Home. Four require improvement: Bispham Gardens, Glenroyd, New Victoria Nursing Home and Park View Care Home with Nursing. Check the inspection date in each case, and where a home fell short, read whether the concerns touched daily care or sat with governance and records.

Getting an Assessment and Arranging the Funding

A care needs assessment belongs at the start of this process. It is free, it is a right for anyone who appears to need care and support whatever their savings, and it gives an independent view on whether nursing care is warranted. Requests go to Blackpool Council Adult Social Care, the authority responsible for assessing people who live in Blackpool and for arranging funded support where eligibility is established. Leaving the request until a discharge date has been fixed is the step families most often wish they had taken sooner.

How the Cost Is Divided

A financial assessment then measures income, savings and capital against nationally set thresholds to establish what a person contributes and what is met publicly. The health service contribution towards the nursing element of a fee is not means tested and should be claimed even by those funding themselves. Where health needs dominate the picture, continuing healthcare funding can meet the entire cost, so ask to be assessed rather than waiting to be offered.

Pinning Down the Fees

Nursing fees exceed residential rates and vary across the homes here by room, setting and the intensity of care required. Ask for a written schedule, find out what is charged separately, and confirm the notice period before an increase applies. If a third party top up is proposed, establish who is committing to pay it and what happens if circumstances change later on.

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