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Brackenlea Care Home, Winchester — care home record & Homesplace Grade · Homesplace

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Brackenlea Care Home

Residential homes · 25 beds · Pearson Lane, Winchester SO21 2AG

✓ Verified record · data of 14 June 2026Part of Brookvale HealthcareUnclaimed · auto generated from official sources

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Homesplace Grade · stable

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Is Brackenlea Care Home any good?

On the evidence, Brackenlea Care Home has a record with one watch point. It was rated Requires improvement at its latest inspection (16 Sep 2025). The watch point: safe is rated requires improvement at the current inspection. Worth asking about on a visit.

CQC inspection · 16 Sep 2025CQC register · manager history

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Safe is rated Requires improvement at the current inspection.

Safe is one of the two most heavily weighted key questions in the Homesplace Grade. Rated at the inspection published 16 September 2025.

The evidence

Official CQC rating

published 16 Sep 2025

Requires improvementoverall

Safe: ● Requires improvement
Effective: ● Good
Caring: ● Good
Responsive: ● Good
Well led: ● Requires improvement

Rating trajectory

all inspections on record

Rated Requires improvement at every inspection on record.

Requires improvement

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Sep 2025

Leadership stability

No manager changes in five years. Stable leadership supports quality, which is why we track it.

B. Rice · current registered manager
since Oct 2015 · 10 yrs 7 mo

Enforcement and breaches

✓No enforcement action on record

Checked against the CQC enforcement register · 14 June 2026

Capacity and specialisms

25 beds
Residential homes
Caring for adults over 65 yrs
Dementia
Mental health conditions
Physical disabilities

CQC register · 14 June 2026

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