Which nursing homes in Oxfordshire are listed here?

Seventy eight nursing homes registered with the Care Quality Commission to provide care in Oxfordshire appear on this page. Each is registered to have qualified nursing staff available, which is what distinguishes them from residential care homes. You can compare them by rating and open any profile to read the inspection report in full. Registration details differ, so check the profile to confirm a home takes the type of nursing your relative needs.

What should I ask when visiting a nursing home in Oxfordshire?

Ask how many registered nurses are on each shift and how the home covers absence at short notice. Find out how long the manager has been in post and how much of the care team is permanent rather than agency. Ask how the home works with local GPs and what happens if someone becomes unwell overnight. It is also reasonable to ask what the last inspection found and what has changed as a result.

How does a nursing home differ from a residential care home?

A residential care home provides accommodation, meals and personal care, with community nursing called in when clinical care is needed. A nursing home is registered to have a qualified nurse on duty at all times, so treatment can be given on site. The homes on this page are registered as nursing homes. If needs are modest now but expected to increase, ask whether a home is registered for both, because that can avoid a second move later.

Will Oxfordshire County Council fund a nursing home placement?

Oxfordshire County Council can fund all or part of a nursing placement once a care needs assessment and a financial assessment have been completed. What it pays depends on assessed need and on capital and income, with national thresholds applied to savings and property. Where needs are primarily health related the NHS may fund the placement instead, and a separate contribution towards nursing costs applies where a registered nurse is required. Ask for written confirmation of what each body will pay.

How do I arrange a care needs assessment in Oxfordshire?

Contact the adult social care team at Oxfordshire County Council and request a care needs assessment, which anyone who appears to need support may have regardless of income. A practitioner will look at what your relative can manage safely and what level of care is required. A financial assessment then establishes whether the council will contribute towards the cost. Ask early, because assessments take time to arrange and the written outcome is useful evidence when approaching homes.

How far ahead should we start looking?

Begin as soon as nursing care looks likely rather than waiting for a crisis, because homes with a strong reputation rarely have an immediate vacancy. Visiting two or three while there is no pressure makes the differences between them much clearer. If a hospital discharge is setting the pace you may have only days, so ask the ward social work team for help and treat the first placement as reviewable. Where a move is months off, keep in touch with your preferred home about vacancies.

Nursing Homes in Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire has 80 CQC registered nursing homes. 55 are rated Good, 9 Outstanding, 9 Requires improvement, and 7 have not yet been rated. 51 of the 80 were last inspected more than three years ago.

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

Oxfordshire at a glance

What the numbers say about care for older people in Oxfordshire.

Oxfordshire County Council pays, residential care: £1,184 a week. Self-funders are typically asked £1,640 to £1,825, median £1,700
Care home beds filled across Oxfordshire: 84%. The 12 month average is 82%.
Care home beds per 1,000 people aged 75+: 80
People aged 75 and over: 76,100. Rising to 93,400 by 2035, up 23%
Care homes, last 12 months: 1 opened, 2 closed. 12 changed owner, covering 671 beds.
Who pays, across Oxfordshire (estimate): 33% council, 55% self. The rest is NHS funded or other.
Living with dementia, aged 65 and over (estimate): 10,000. Rising to 13,200 by 2035, up 32%
People aged 85 and over: 21,400. Rising to 33,100 by 2035, up 55%

Powered by Orrery Intelligence. Market model built 22 October 2026 (ONS 2022 based population projections, CQC register), published care home prices, council planning records.

What nursing care in Oxfordshire involves and what to look for

A nursing home differs from a residential home in one decisive respect: a registered nurse is on duty at all times, so clinical care can be given on site rather than waiting for a visit. That suits someone with a long term condition, complex medication, wounds needing regular attention, or health that is changing week by week. Be specific about the nursing actually required at the first conversation, because not every home takes on every type of clinical need.

Staffing is the thing to examine

Ask how many registered nurses are on duty across a full day and night and how the home covers a nurse who calls in sick. Ask how it works with local GP practices, what happens when someone deteriorates overnight, and how quickly families are told. Watch how staff speak to residents who cannot easily speak back, and whether people are helped to change position and take a drink without having to ask. Ask how the home records preferences about routine, food and religious observance, and who makes sure they are respected.

What the inspection reports show

All seventy eight homes are registered with the Care Quality Commission. Fifty seven are rated Good and nine are rated Outstanding, seven are rated Requires Improvement and five are not yet rated. In a nursing setting the detail matters more than the headline, so read what inspectors said about safety, medicines and whether the service is well led, and note when the visit happened. A home told to improve that has since replaced its management is a different proposition from one with the same grade and no changes at all.

Getting an assessment and funding a nursing placement in Oxfordshire

The care needs assessment

An assessment is free and open to anyone who appears to need care and support, whatever their savings. Oxfordshire County Council is responsible for carrying it out and for deciding what support it will fund, so its adult social care team is the right first contact. Where nursing is involved the assessment should establish whether needs are primarily health related, because that affects who pays. A financial assessment then looks at income, savings and property to work out any contribution.

Fees, funded nursing care and top ups

Nursing fees are generally higher than residential fees and vary with the room and the level of clinical care, so ask for the current weekly figure in writing and for a list of anything charged separately. Where a resident is assessed as needing care from a registered nurse, the NHS pays a contribution towards that nursing element directly to the home, and the home should show you how it appears on the account. Where the council funds a placement it pays up to the amount it considers appropriate for assessed needs, and a third party may be asked to top up for a more expensive home. Check the notice period and what happens to fees during a hospital admission before signing.

80 nursing homes in Oxfordshire (showing 1–50)

Acacia Lodge · Henley-on-thames, Oxfordshire
Cherwood House Care Centre · Bicester, Oxfordshire · CQC Good
St Luke's Hospital · Oxford, Oxfordshire · CQC Good
Stowford House Care Home · Abingdon, Oxfordshire · CQC Good
Brookfield · Oxford, Oxfordshire · CQC Good
Penhurst Gardens Care Home · Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire · CQC Good
Iffley Residential and Nursing Home · Oxford, Oxfordshire · CQC Good
Nursing Home · Wantage, Oxfordshire · CQC Good
Abbeycrest Nursing Home · Reading, Oxfordshire · CQC Good
OSJCT The Meadows · Didcot, Oxfordshire · CQC Good
The Albany Care Home · Oxford, Oxfordshire · CQC Requires improvement
Cotswold Gate Care Home · Burford, Oxfordshire
Hallmark Henley Manor Luxury Care Home · Henley-on-thames, Oxfordshire · CQC Good
Floryn House Care Home · Kidlington, Oxfordshire
Rush Court · Wallingford, Oxfordshire · CQC Good
Lashbrook House Care Home · Henley-on-thames, Oxfordshire · CQC Good
Beech Court Nursing Home · Witney, Oxfordshire · CQC Good
Chawley Grove · Oxford, Oxfordshire · CQC Good
Oxford Manor Care Home · Didcot, Oxfordshire · CQC Good
Hempton Field Care Home · Chinnor, Oxfordshire · CQC Good
Meadowview Nursing Home · Standlake, Oxfordshire · CQC Good
Green Pastures Christian Nursing Home · Banbury, Oxfordshire · CQC Good
Fewcott House Nursing Home · Bicester, Oxfordshire · CQC Good
Heathfield House Nursing Home · Kidlington, Oxfordshire · CQC Good
Agnes Court - Care Home with Nursing Physical Disabilities · Banbury, Oxfordshire · CQC Requires improvement
OSJCT Westgate House · Wallingford, Oxfordshire · CQC Good
Beaumont · Oxford, Oxfordshire · CQC Outstanding
Wytham House · Oxford, Oxfordshire · CQC Good
Heights Nursing Home · Banbury, Oxfordshire · CQC Requires improvement
St Katharine's House · Wantage, Oxfordshire · CQC Good
Green Gates Care Home · Oxford, Oxfordshire · CQC Good
and District Residential and Nursing Home · Watlington, Oxfordshire · CQC Outstanding
Court Care Home · Abingdon, Oxfordshire
The Headington Care Home · Oxford, Oxfordshire · CQC Requires improvement
Elmbrook Court Care Home · Wantage, Oxfordshire
Richmond Village Letcombe Regis · Wantage, Oxfordshire · CQC Good
Coxwell Hall and Mews Nursing Home · Faringdon, Oxfordshire · CQC Good
Wyndham Hall Care Home · Bicester, Oxfordshire · CQC Good
John Masefield House · Abingdon, Oxfordshire · CQC Good
The Old Prebendal House · Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire · CQC Good
OSJCT Henry Cornish Care Centre · Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire · CQC Good
Richmond Village · Witney, Oxfordshire · CQC Requires improvement
Highmarket House · Banbury, Oxfordshire · CQC Requires improvement
OSJCT Meadowcroft · Thame, Oxfordshire · CQC Good
Benson House Care Home · Wallingford, Oxfordshire · CQC Requires improvement
The Triangle Care Home · Oxford, Oxfordshire · CQC Requires improvement
Cedar Court Care Home · Witney, Oxfordshire · CQC Good
The Grange Care Centre · Faringdon, Oxfordshire · CQC Outstanding
Cumnor Hill House · Oxford, Oxfordshire · CQC Good
The Cotswold · Burford, Oxfordshire · CQC Outstanding

What care costs in Oxfordshire, per week

Type of care	What the council pays	What self-funders are typically asked
Residential care Middle half of prices from 13 Oxfordshire homes. Median £1,700.	£1,184	£1,640 to £1,825
Nursing care South East figure, because too few Oxfordshire homes publish this price. 63 homes. Median £1,933.	£1,231	£1,617 to £2,080
Residential dementia care Middle half of prices from 12 Oxfordshire homes. Median £1,894.	Not published separately	£1,760 to £2,007
Nursing dementia care South East figure, because too few Oxfordshire 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

Agnes Court - Care Home with Nursing Physical Disabilities, 7 September 2026, Requires improvement
Hempton Field Care Home, 18 August 2026, Good
Oxford Beaumont, 30 July 2026, Outstanding

Longest since a report

Merryfield House Nursing Home, 9 December 2017, Good
Penhurst Gardens Care Home, 14 December 2017, Good
Green Pastures Christian Nursing Home, 30 March 2018, Good

Frequently asked questions about nursing homes in Oxfordshire

How many nursing homes are there in Oxfordshire?

Oxfordshire has 80 CQC registered nursing homes: 9 Outstanding, 55 Good, 9 Requires improvement, 7 not yet rated. Counts come from the CQC register and are kept up to date as ratings change.

How much does a nursing home cost in Oxfordshire?

Oxfordshire County Council pays an average of £1,184 a week for residential care. Self-funders are typically asked £1,640 to £1,825 a week. Middle half of prices from 13 Oxfordshire homes. Median £1,700. 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 nursing homes in Oxfordshire were inspected most recently?

Agnes Court - Care Home with Nursing Physical Disabilities (7 September 2026), Hempton Field Care Home (18 August 2026) and Oxford Beaumont (30 July 2026) have the most recent CQC reports.

Local care news in Oxfordshire

Abingdon Court Care Home registered as a 64 bed care home in Vale of White Horse (5 November 2026)

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