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SeeAbility - Heather House Nursing Home

SeeAbility - Heather House Nursing Home is a care home with nursing in Tadley, run by The Royal School for the Blind. CQC rated it Requires improvement overall in June 2026 (last checked 8 June 2026). It has 16 beds. It is registered to support people with a physical disability, people with a sensory impairment, people with a learning disability or autism and younger adults.

  • Care home with nursing

Heather House, Heather Drive, Tadley, Hampshire, RG26 4QR

What CQC says

Overall rating

Requires improvementrated 4 months ago (8 June 2026)

The service is not performing as well as it should.

Down from Good, 26 April 2018.

Last checked by CQC: 8 June 2026.

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The five key questions

CQC rates each service on five questions. Each has its own rating.

  • Is it safe?

    Requires improvementrated 4 months ago (8 June 2026)

  • Is it effective?

    Goodrated 4 months ago (8 June 2026)

  • Is it caring?

    Goodrated 4 months ago (8 June 2026)

  • Is it responsive to people’s needs?

    Goodrated 4 months ago (8 June 2026)

  • Is it well-led?

    Requires improvementrated 4 months ago (8 June 2026)

Not sure what the ratings mean? Read how CQC ratings work.

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.

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More about how CQC works, with sources

Earlier ratings

Overall ratings this service had before, newest first. These are CQC’s own earlier ratings.

About this service

Type of care
Care home with nursing
Who it supports
Physical disability, Sensory impairment, Learning disability or autism, Younger adults, Children and young people
Number of beds
16
Nursing care
Yes, nurses are on hand
Registered since
15 December 2010
Local council area
Hampshire

Who runs it

Provider
The Royal School for the Blind
Brand
BRAND SeeAbility
Kind of provider
Company or organisation

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