Goodrated 1 year ago
- Welwyn Garden City, AL7 2FF
- 75 beds
The Mead
The Mead is a care home in Borehamwood, run by Quantum Care Limited. CQC rated it Requires improvement overall in June 2026 (last checked 22 June 2026). It has 60 beds. It is registered to support people living with dementia, older people, people with a physical disability and younger adults.
- Care home without nursing
Castleford Close, Allerton Road, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, WD6 4AL
What CQC says
Overall rating
Requires improvementrated 3 months ago (22 June 2026)
The service is not performing as well as it should.
Down from Good, 7 December 2017.
Last checked by CQC: 22 June 2026.
The five key questions
CQC rates each service on five questions. Each has its own rating.
Is it safe?
Requires improvementrated 3 months ago (22 June 2026)Is it effective?
Goodrated 3 months ago (22 June 2026)Is it caring?
Goodrated 3 months ago (22 June 2026)Is it responsive to people’s needs?
Goodrated 3 months ago (22 June 2026)Is it well-led?
Requires improvementrated 3 months ago (22 June 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.
- Good7 December 2017Read the report (opens in a new tab)
- Good27 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, Physical disability, Younger adults
- Number of beds
- 60
- Nursing care
- No, personal care only
- Registered since
- 6 January 2011
- Local council area
- Hertfordshire
Who runs it
- Provider
- Quantum Care Limited
- Brand
- BRAND Quantum Care Limited
- Kind of provider
- Company or organisation
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Rating from December 2023 (more than 2 years ago)
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