Patch preview · from CQC's published register

West Midlands.

Care homes whose record has already moved while the rating has not: registered manager gone, Well-led rated Requires improvement or Inadequate, six years or more since the last published inspection. This is the West Midlands patch as of the latest register read.

Backtested over four years of CQC's own ratings files: 13.2% of the homes flagged on the Well-led test lost their overall rating, against 9% of homes whose Well-led was Good or Outstanding. Seven in eight flagged homes held theirs. The study

Care homes flagged

132

Trouble signals, rating still standing

Flagged across the scan

170

London and the West Midlands, screened together

Figures from the FirstFlag scan of 11 July 2026. Data: Care Quality Commission (OGL v3) and Companies House.

Currently flagged · identity withheld3 of 132

FF-151C99GOOD

27 beds · Care home service without nursing

“For example, medication audits had not identified the issues we identified in the management of ‘as required’ and topical medicines. Reviews of care plans had not identified people’s risk assessment tools were not being reviewed regularly or in response to a deterioration in health or an accident/incident.”
CQC inspector, published report

Well-led rated Requires improvement, published November 2024, while the overall rating still reads Good

Home name

Directors

Switchboard

Published email

FF-D1DB54GOOD

40 beds · Care home service without nursing

“The registered manager carried out routine audits on care plans, incidents and accidents and spot checks on staff performance, where shortfalls were identified, prompt actions were taken to address this. Checks and audits of the environment required strengthening, in order for shortfalls to be identified promptly so actions could be taken to resolve this.”
CQC inspector, published report

Well-led rated Requires improvement, published November 2024, while the overall rating still reads Good

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Directors

Switchboard

Published email

FF-842B3CGOOD

81 beds · Care home service with nursing

“People and the relatives we spoke with did not raise any concerns in relation to being treated equally and fairly.”
CQC inspector, published report

No registered manager recorded against the home's regulated activity
Well-led rated Requires improvement, published August 2024, while the overall rating still reads Good

Home name

Directors

Switchboard

Published email

Real homes, real inspection records, refcoded. A territory licence names every one of them, with directors, the switchboard CQC publishes and, where the home or its operator publishes one, an email.

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Named homes, named directors, the switchboard and a published email where the home has one, five-domain scores, the works. Exactly what a licensed territory receives. Your address also puts your firm on the West Midlands list, so you hear first if the territory comes free.

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