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

A residential care home provides personal care from care staff, covering help with washing, dressing, meals and prompting medication. A nursing home carries an additional registration for clinical nursing, with registered nurses on duty at all hours. That allows wound care, tube feeding, catheter management or palliative nursing to be managed in house rather than by visiting community nurses. All five homes listed for Reigate are registered for nursing care.

What should be asked on a visit to a nursing home in Reigate?

Ask about nurse numbers on each shift and about turnover within the nursing team, since continuity matters far more to a resident than the furnishings. Where a home holds a lower grade, ask what has changed since the inspection and ask to see any action plan. Request the fee schedule in writing, including whatever would trigger a higher band. Visit twice if you can, at different times of day.

How is a care needs assessment arranged in Reigate?

Ask Surrey County Council for an adult social care needs assessment, which anyone can request, including a relative acting with the person's consent. There is no charge and the outcome does not depend on income or savings. An assessor will consider daily living, mobility, medication, continence and overnight needs before recommending a level of care. If the person is in hospital, the discharge team normally begins the process, though you may follow it up directly.

Will Surrey County Council contribute to nursing home fees?

Surrey County Council can fund or part fund a placement where the needs assessment confirms nursing care is required and the financial assessment shows capital below the upper threshold. Anyone above that threshold meets the fees privately, although the needs assessment is still worth obtaining. NHS funded nursing care contributes a weekly sum towards the nursing element for every nursing home resident regardless of means. Where needs are mainly clinical, NHS continuing healthcare may fund the full placement.

How early should a family begin looking?

Begin as soon as nursing care looks likely rather than waiting for the point at which a decision cannot be delayed. Six to eight weeks allows for repeat visits, a careful read of the inspection reports and a settled funding position. Hospital discharge rarely leaves that long, so a shortlist prepared in advance earns its keep. If a suitable room comes free sooner, many homes will hold it for a short period against a deposit.

Nursing Homes in Reigate

Q: Which nursing homes are listed for Reigate?

Five nursing homes cover Reigate: Wray Common Nursing Home, Reigate Grange, Eversfield, The Reigate Beaumont and Rutland House Nursing Home. Wray Common Nursing Home, Eversfield, The Reigate Beaumont and Rutland House Nursing Home are each rated Good by the Care Quality Commission. Reigate Grange currently holds a rating of Requires Improvement. Each profile links through to the inspection report behind its grade.

Reigate has 5 CQC registered nursing homes. 4 are rated Good, 1 Requires improvement. All 5 were last inspected more than three years ago.

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

Reigate at a glance

What the local numbers say about care for older people in Reigate, 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+: 115. Surrey average is 90.
People aged 75 and over: 15,600. Rising to 18,300 by 2035, up 18%
Care homes, last 12 months: 2 opened, 3 closed. 1 changed owner, covering 53 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): 2,100. Rising to 2,700 by 2035, up 27%
People aged 85 and over: 4,700. Rising to 7,000 by 2035, up 50%

Planned and recent building work within 5 miles

Oakhill House 64 Chart Lane Reigate Surrey. Application for a 10 bed care home through a change of use. Submitted 4 March 2026. Approved with conditions 5 June 2026. (0.7 miles away)

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

Choosing between the nursing homes covering Reigate

Start with the clinical reason for the move, because that is what distinguishes a nursing home from everything else on offer locally. Needs such as wound care, tube feeding, catheter management or palliative nursing are met in house by registered nurses rather than by district nurses calling in. Ask how many qualified nurses are rostered on each shift, and who takes clinical decisions overnight and at weekends.

Where the grades sit

Wray Common Nursing Home, Eversfield, The Reigate Beaumont and Rutland House Nursing Home are each rated Good. Reigate Grange currently holds Requires Improvement, which reflects one inspection on one set of dates rather than a reason to rule it out. Find out which of the five assessed areas fell short, how recent the finding is and what has changed since.

Questions a visit should answer

Ask about turnover among the nursing team, since instability tends to sit behind weaker findings. Find out whether a rise in needs would bring a fee change or a move within the home. Request the fee schedule in writing, including whatever triggers a higher band, and call in near a mealtime to watch how residents needing help to eat are supported.

Arranging the assessment and funding the placement

A care needs assessment is the step that establishes whether nursing rather than residential care is required, and it comes before any contract. It is free, anyone may request it, and a relative can do so with consent. Surrey County Council is responsible for that assessment and the financial assessment that follows, and where a hospital stay is involved the discharge team normally starts the process.

How the means test is applied

Savings, income and, in a permanent placement, usually the value of a property are measured against the national capital thresholds. Capital above the upper threshold means fees are met privately. Below the lower threshold only income is counted, with a weekly personal allowance protected, and a deferred payment arrangement can postpone a sale.

Costs and the NHS contributions to claim

Nursing fees in this part of the country sit above the national average because of the clinical staffing behind them. NHS funded nursing care pays a fixed weekly amount towards the nursing element whatever the resident's means, and NHS continuing healthcare can fund a whole placement where the need is primarily clinical. Both sit outside the council means test and are worth raising at the outset.

5 nursing homes in Reigate

Wray Common Nursing Home · Reigate, Surrey · CQC Good
Grange · Reigate, Surrey · CQC Requires improvement
Eversfield · Reigate, Surrey · CQC Good
Rutland House Nursing Home · Reigate, Surrey · CQC Good
The Beaumont · Reigate, Surrey · CQC Good

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

Rutland House Nursing Home, 18 August 2023, Good
Wray Common Nursing Home, 6 October 2022, Good
Reigate Grange, 31 May 2022, Requires improvement

Longest since a report

Eversfield, 15 May 2018, Good
The Reigate Beaumont, 26 June 2019, Good
Reigate Grange, 31 May 2022, Requires improvement

Frequently asked questions about nursing homes in Reigate

How many nursing homes are there in Reigate?

Reigate has 5 CQC registered nursing homes: 4 Good, 1 Requires improvement. Counts come from the CQC register and are kept up to date as ratings change.

How much does a nursing home cost in Reigate?

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 nursing homes in Reigate were inspected most recently?

Rutland House Nursing Home (18 August 2023), Wray Common Nursing Home (6 October 2022) and Reigate Grange (31 May 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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