Home Care in Rushden
Rushden has 11 CQC registered home care agencies. 3 are rated Good, 1 Requires improvement, and 7 have not yet been rated. 3 of the 11 were last inspected more than three years ago.
Source: Care Quality Commission register, kept up to date as ratings change.
Rushden at a glance
What the local numbers say about home care in Rushden, to help you judge the options below.
- Hourly care visits, East Midlands: £30.58 to £32.23 an hour. Middle half of prices from 7 agencies.
- People aged 75 and over: 35,200. Rising to 41,200 by 2035, up 17%
- Living with dementia, aged 65 and over (estimate): 4,500. Rising to 5,700 by 2035, up 28%
- People aged 85 and over: 8,400. Rising to 13,400 by 2035, up 59%
- Dementia diagnosis rate: 71%. The NHS ambition is 67%.
- Agencies in the borough, last 12 months: 2 opened, 9 closed. 135 registered today.
- Choice of agencies: 121 within 10 miles. In a typical neighbourhood. The nearest is under a mile away (0.5 miles).
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What Care at Home in Rushden Involves and What to Look For
Help delivered at home is built around planned visits rather than a move, and that shapes how it is chosen and paid for. A package might be a single morning call to help someone wash and dress, or several visits a day covering meals, medication and settling at night. Getting the shape of it right matters more than the name above the door, particularly where published judgements are scarce.
What a registered agency provides
All eleven providers here are registered to deliver personal care in someone's own home: help with washing, dressing, moving about, meals and medication, along with company and a regular check that all is well. Clinical work requiring a qualified nurse, such as complex wound care, falls outside that registration and is arranged separately through health services. Raise needs of that kind at the first conversation rather than once a package has started.
What to do when most agencies carry no rating
Ask when the agency registered and whether an inspection has been scheduled. Ask how long it has been operating locally, how many people it currently supports, and whether it can provide references. Where a report does exist, open it in full, since each inspection answers five questions about whether a service is safe, effective, caring, responsive and well led. Where an agency has been told it requires improvement, the report states exactly what inspectors found and when, so ask what has changed since and ask to see the evidence.
Questions that reveal how an agency runs
Ask how many different carers are likely to visit in a typical week, because continuity matters more than almost anything else. Ask what happens when a regular carer is unwell, how you will be told if a visit is running late, and who answers the telephone out of hours. Check the minimum visit length, how medication support is recorded, and how the care plan is reviewed as needs change. An agency that cannot answer these plainly is telling you something useful in itself.
Getting an Assessment and Funding Care in Rushden
Charges follow the hours booked rather than arriving as a single weekly figure, which keeps a package flexible but makes the running total harder to predict. Settling which funding route applies early makes the rest far easier to manage.
Asking for a care needs assessment
Any adult who appears to need care and support can request a care needs assessment, and a relative providing care can ask for a separate carer's assessment of their own. Both are arranged through North Northamptonshire Council adult social care, the authority responsible for assessing need and for arranging funded support where someone qualifies. The assessment produces a written statement of need rather than a recommendation of any particular agency.
Who pays, and what to check on charges
Where eligible needs are identified, a financial assessment considers income and capital. Savings above the upper threshold mean the care is funded privately; below it, the authority contributes and the person pays an assessed share. Some households take a direct payment and arrange support themselves. The authority can also say which agencies it commissions from, which is useful information where ratings are scarce, and it is worth asking each agency for its charges in writing including evening, weekend and bank holiday rates.
11 home care in Rushden
- Profad Care Agency · 1A Queen Street, Rushden, North Northamptonshire, NN10 0AA
Home care · CQC Requires improvement · Run by Profad Care Agency Limited
Profad Care Agency provides support at home for people in Rushden and across North Northamptonshire. The people we visit include older people, many of them living with dementia, as well as younger adults, people with a learning disability...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Learning Disability / Autism, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment, Younger Adults - Serve · 8 West Street, Rushden, North Northamptonshire, NN10 0RT
Home care · CQC Good · Run by Serve
We provide care at home in Rushden and the surrounding parts of North Northamptonshire. We support older people, younger adults, people with physical disabilities and people living with sight or hearing loss. Most people who contact us...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment, Younger Adults - 4 Futures · 49 Purvis Road, Rushden, North Northamptonshire, NN10 9QA
Home care · CQC Good · Run by Mrs Charlotte Pow
We are 4 Futures, a home care agency based in Rushden and working with people throughout North Northamptonshire. Everything we do happens in the place our clients know best, which is their own home, and that shapes how we work. We fit...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Learning Disability / Autism, Younger Adults - Daisy Living Services · 83 Linden Avenue, Rushden, North Northamptonshire, NN10 8EU
Home care · Run by Daisy Living Services Ltd
We at Daisy Living Services are proud to offer compassionate home care across Rushden and the wider North Northamptonshire area, supporting older people, younger adults, and those living with complex needs to remain safe and comfortable in...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Physical Disability, Younger Adults - BreeCare · 1 Midland Road, Rushden, North Northamptonshire, NN10 9UJ
Home care · Run by BreeCare Limited
Here at BreeCare, we provide home care support to people living in Rushden and the wider North Northamptonshire area. Our work takes place where it matters most, in people's own homes, where they feel comfortable, safe and in control of...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Learning Disability / Autism, Younger Adults - Yourlife · Townsend, Rushden, North Northamptonshire, NN10 0FR
Home care · Run by Yourlife Management Services Limited
Yourlife in Rushden provides care and support to people in their own homes in the town and the surrounding area. We are here so that people can stay in the place they know, with their own things around them, and receive help at times that...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment, Younger Adults - Angels-Touch Care · 33 Blackwell Close, Rushden, North Northamptonshire, NN10 8PJ
Home care · Run by Angels-Touch Care Ltd
We provide care at home in Rushden and the surrounding part of Northamptonshire. The people we support include older people and younger adults, people living with dementia, adults with learning disabilities, autistic people, people with...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Learning Disability / Autism, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment, Younger Adults - Tose-Vision Healthcare · 35 Sunningdale Drive, Rushden, North Northamptonshire, NN10 0YJ
Home care · Run by Tose-Vision Healthcare Limited
We are a home care agency working with people in and around Rushden in their own homes. Our purpose is straightforward, which is to make it possible for somebody to stay where they want to be for as long as that is sensible and safe. Most...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Younger Adults - Higham Carers · Higham Carers Ltd - 27 Fitzwilliam Leys, Rushden, North Northamptonshire, NN10 8LY
Home care · Run by Higham Carers Ltd
We are Higham Carers, based in Rushden and supporting adults in their own homes across this part of Northamptonshire. We support older people and people living with dementia, people with physical disabilities, people with a visual or...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment, Younger Adults - Connecting Hands Healthcare Services · 4 Shirley Road, Rushden, North Northamptonshire, NN10 6BY
Home care · CQC Good · Run by BTTLR LIMITED
Connecting Hands Healthcare provides support in people's own homes and in the community, working from Rushden across North Northamptonshire. Our work is with adults who have learning disabilities and with autistic adults. We support people...
Specialisms: Learning Disability / Autism - Rachen Healthcare · 19 Hillary Road, Rushden, North Northamptonshire, NN10 9NZ
Home care · Run by Rachen healthcare Ltd
Rachen Healthcare provides care and support in people's own homes in Rushden and the surrounding area. We are here for people who want to carry on living in their own place and need some help to make that safe and manageable. Most of our...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Younger Adults
What home care costs
| Type of care | What it costs |
|---|---|
| Hourly care visits, East Midlands Middle half of prices from 7 agencies. Median £31.00. Shown for East Midlands because too few North Northamptonshire agencies publish a rate. | £30.58 to £32.23 an hour |
| What North Northamptonshire pays Average hourly rate, October 2026. | £23.31 an hour |
| Homecare Association minimum price 2026 to 2027. The Association's estimate of the lowest price that covers the cost of delivering care. It is not a legal minimum. | £34.42 an hour |
| Live in care, England Middle half of prices from 62 agencies. Median £1,455. | £1,250 to £1,668 a week |
Published prices come from agencies that publish rates, so treat them as a guide. Ask the agency for its own price. Powered by Orrery Intelligence.
Inspected most recently
- Profad Care Agency Limited, 18 February 2026, Requires improvement
- 4 Futures, 24 January 2020, Good
- Serve, 24 December 2019, Good
Longest since a report
- BTTLR Limited t/a Connecting Hands Healthcare Services, 19 December 2018, Good
- Serve, 24 December 2019, Good
- 4 Futures, 24 January 2020, Good
Frequently asked questions about home care in Rushden
How many home care agencies are there in Rushden?
Rushden has 11 CQC registered home care agencies: 3 Good, 1 Requires improvement, 7 not yet rated. Counts come from the CQC register and are kept up to date as ratings change.
How much does home care cost in Rushden?
Hourly care visits, East Midlands: £30.58 to £32.23 an hour. Middle half of prices from 7 agencies. Median £31.00. Shown for East Midlands because too few North Northamptonshire agencies publish a rate. Published prices come from agencies that publish rates, so treat them as a guide. Ask the agency for its own price.
Which home care agencies in Rushden were inspected most recently?
Profad Care Agency Limited (18 February 2026), 4 Futures (24 January 2020) and Serve (24 December 2019) have the most recent CQC reports.