St Dominics Residential Home
St Dominics Residential Home is a care home in Colchester, run by St. Dominics Residential Home Limited. CQC rated it Good overall in September 2025 (last checked 22 September 2025). It has 60 beds. It is registered to support people living with dementia, older people and people with a sensory impairment.
- Care home without nursing
London Road, Kelvedon, Colchester, Essex, CO5 9AP
What CQC says
Overall rating
The service is performing well and meeting expectations.
The same as the rating before it (Good, 22 January 2019).
Last checked by CQC: 22 September 2025.
The five key questions
CQC rates each service on five questions. Each has its own rating.
Is it safe?
Requires improvementrated 1 year ago (22 September 2025)Is it effective?
Goodrated 1 year ago (22 September 2025)Is it caring?
Goodrated 1 year ago (22 September 2025)Is it responsive to people’s needs?
Goodrated 1 year ago (22 September 2025)Is it well-led?
Goodrated 1 year ago (22 September 2025)
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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.
CQC rated it Good overall. It rated “Safe” as Requires improvement.
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?
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.
- Good22 January 2019Read the report (opens in a new tab)
- Good7 January 2017Read the report (opens in a new tab)
- Good8 January 2016Read the report (opens in a new tab)
About this service
- Type of care
- Care home without nursing
- Who it supports
- Dementia, Older people, Sensory impairment
- Number of beds
- 60
- Nursing care
- No, personal care only
- Registered since
- 18 January 2011
- Local council area
- Essex
Who runs it
- Provider
- St. Dominics Residential Home Limited
- Kind of provider
- Company or organisation