The Lodge - Dementia Care with Nursing
The Lodge - Dementia Care with Nursing is a care home with nursing in Chorley, run by Oakbridge Retirement Villages LLP. CQC rated it Good overall in October 2025 (last checked 15 October 2025). It has 112 beds. It is registered to support people living with dementia, older people and people with mental health needs.
- Care home with nursing
Buckshaw Retirement Village, Oakbridge Drive, Buckshaw Village, Chorley, Lancashire, PR7 7EP
What CQC says
Overall rating
The service is performing well and meeting expectations.
Up from Requires improvement, 7 February 2024.
Last checked by CQC: 15 October 2025.
The five key questions
CQC rates each service on five questions. Each has its own rating.
Is it safe?
Goodrated 11 months ago (15 October 2025)Is it effective?
Goodrated 11 months ago (15 October 2025)Is it caring?
Goodrated 11 months ago (15 October 2025)Is it responsive to people’s needs?
Goodrated 11 months ago (15 October 2025)Is it well-led?
Requires improvementrated 11 months ago (15 October 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 “Well-led” as Requires improvement.
What CQC looks at
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 improvement7 February 2024Read the report (opens in a new tab)
- Requires improvement4 September 2021Read the report (opens in a new tab)
- Good5 December 2018Read the report (opens in a new tab)
- Requires improvement17 June 2017Read the report (opens in a new tab)
- Requires improvement7 August 2015Read the report (opens in a new tab)
About this service
- Type of care
- Care home with nursing
- Who it supports
- Dementia, Older people, Mental health needs
- Number of beds
- 112
- Nursing care
- Yes, nurses are on hand
- Registered since
- 13 December 2010
- Local council area
- Lancashire
Who runs it
- Provider
- Oakbridge Retirement Villages LLP
- Brand
- BRAND Humberside Independent Care Association Limited
- Kind of provider
- Company or organisation