- Hitchin, SG4 9QY
- 35 beds
Highbury Rise
Highbury Rise is a care home in Hitchin, run by Benslow Management Company Limited. CQC rated it Requires improvement overall in January 2026 (last checked 27 January 2026). It has 23 beds. It is registered to support people living with dementia and older people.
- Care home without nursing
6 Highbury Road, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, SG4 9RW
What CQC says
Overall rating
The service is not performing as well as it should.
The same as the rating before it (Requires improvement, 20 October 2023).
Last checked by CQC: 27 January 2026.
The five key questions
CQC rates each service on five questions. Each has its own rating.
Is it safe?
Requires improvementrated 8 months ago (27 January 2026)Is it effective?
Goodrated 8 months ago (27 January 2026)Is it caring?
Goodrated 8 months ago (27 January 2026)Is it responsive to people’s needs?
Goodrated 8 months ago (27 January 2026)Is it well-led?
Requires improvementrated 8 months ago (27 January 2026)
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Understanding this rating
Plain facts about how CQC rates and inspects services, as CQC describes them. This is not advice and not a rating of ours.
What CQC looks at
Safe: Requires improvement
CQC checks whether people are protected from abuse and avoidable harm. It looks at safeguarding, how risks are managed, staffing levels and training, medicines, and keeping the place clean to stop infections.
Questions you could ask
- How are medicines looked after and given on time?
- How do you decide how many staff are on duty, day and night?
- When something goes wrong, what do you do, and how do you tell families?
Well-led: Requires improvement
CQC checks how well the service is run. It looks at the managers and leaders, the culture, how the service checks and improves its own quality, and whether staff feel able to speak up.
Questions you could ask
- Who is the registered manager, and how can families contact them?
- How do you check the quality of care yourselves?
- How can staff raise worries, and how are they supported when they do?
How often CQC looks again
There is no fixed timetable. CQC decides when to look at a service again. It uses the information it holds about the service and how much risk it sees. It may look sooner if it hears of concerns.
Earlier ratings
Overall ratings this service had before, newest first. These are CQC’s own earlier ratings.
- Requires improvement20 October 2023Read the report (opens in a new tab)
- Good20 October 2017Read the report (opens in a new tab)
- Good19 November 2015Read the report (opens in a new tab)
About this service
- Type of care
- Care home without nursing
- Who it supports
- Dementia, Older people
- Number of beds
- 23
- Nursing care
- No, personal care only
- Registered since
- 14 December 2010
- Local council area
- Hertfordshire
Who runs it
- Provider
- Benslow Management Company Limited
- Kind of provider
- Company or organisation
Other services from this provider
- Goodrated 2 months ago
- Requires improvementrated 3 years ago
Rating from November 2022 (more than 2 years ago)
- Little Gaddesden, HP4 1PL
- 23 beds