Home Care in St. Neots
St. Neots has 6 CQC registered home care agencies. 1 is rated Good, 1 Requires improvement, and 4 have not yet been rated. 2 of the 6 were last inspected more than three years ago.
Source: Care Quality Commission register, kept up to date as ratings change.
St. Neots at a glance
What the local numbers say about home care in St. Neots, to help you judge the options below.
- Hourly care visits, East of England: £26.00 to £34.30 an hour. Middle half of prices from 15 agencies.
- People aged 75 and over: 20,900. Rising to 24,600 by 2035, up 17%
- Living with dementia, aged 65 and over (estimate): 2,700. Rising to 3,400 by 2035, up 29%
- People aged 85 and over: 5,300. Rising to 8,500 by 2035, up 60%
- Dementia diagnosis rate: 60%. The NHS ambition is 67%. Cambridgeshire as a whole is 60%.
- Agencies in the borough, last 12 months: 1 opened, 1 closed. 36 registered today.
- Choice of agencies: 52 within 10 miles. In a typical neighbourhood. The nearest is about 1 miles away (1.0 miles).
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What care at home in St. Neots involves and what to look for
Home care is a schedule before it is anything else, and the schedule is where arrangements succeed or fall apart. Carers come for an agreed length of time at agreed hours, help with washing, dressing, medication, meals or getting to bed, and then leave. Whether that works depends far less on an agency's brochure than on whether the same few people turn up when they said they would.
Judging providers when most carry no rating
With four of six providers unrated, the usual approach of sorting by judgement does very little work here. An absent rating generally means an agency registered recently and has not yet had a first full inspection, which is not a mark against it. For those providers, verify what you can yourself: who owns the agency, how long the registered manager has been in post, what training new carers complete before working unsupervised, how supervision is carried out in the home, and whether references from current clients are offered without being pressed for. Gella Care, Clarity Care Providers, Good Company Care, Paxigate Healthcare and Cherish Social Care are among those listed.
The questions that actually predict reliability
Ask how many different carers would come in a fortnight and whether a regular one is realistic at the times you need. Ask what happens when a carer is off sick, how late a visit can run before anyone is informed, and who telephones the family when a call is missed altogether. Establish the minimum visit length, whether travel time is taken out of the booked time, and how medication is recorded. Then ask who would come out at short notice if something went wrong, and whether that number reaches a person or a message.
Getting an assessment and sorting out funding
Having needs looked at properly
Anyone who appears to need care and support has a right to an assessment of those needs, whatever their finances. For people living in St. Neots this is arranged through Cambridgeshire County Council, which is responsible for adult social care assessment and for funded support. The assessment covers washing and dressing, medication, meals, moving around the house and the help a family is already giving unpaid. Where that unpaid help is substantial, ask for a carer's assessment in the carer's own name at the same time.
What the hours come to
Agencies set their own hourly rates and charge more for evenings, weekends and bank holidays, so ask for the written schedule of charges rather than a single figure. Because the total follows the hours delivered, a package can be built up gradually, but it can also creep upwards without anyone deciding that it should. Where the council contributes after a financial assessment, it may commission the hours itself or offer a direct payment so the family chooses the agency. Ask which applies, since it determines who you deal with when something needs changing.
6 home care in St. Neots
- Gella Care Services · 8 Eaton Ford Green, St. Neots, Cambridgeshire, PE19 7AF
Home care · Run by Gella Care Services Ltd
We at Gella Care are proud to offer compassionate home care across St. Neots and the surrounding Cambridgeshire community, bringing professional support directly to the people and places our clients know and love best. Based in the PE...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Learning Disability / Autism, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Younger Adults - Clarity Care Providers · Bellingham House, St. Neots, Cambridgeshire, PE19 1BG
Home care · Run by Clarity Care Providers Ltd
We at Clarity Care Providers are proud to offer compassionate home care across St. Neots and the wider Cambridgeshire community, supporting people to live well and safely in the place they know best, their own home. Operating throughout...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Learning Disability / Autism, Mental Health, Physical Disability - Good Company Care · Office 18, St. Neots, Cambridgeshire, PE19 5ZA
Home care · Run by Good Company Care Limited
We at Good Company Care are proud to be a trusted home care agency supporting families across St. Neots and the wider Cambridgeshire community. Our approach centres on bringing compassionate, personalised care directly into the homes of...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Younger Adults - Paxigate Healthcare · Unit CB3, St. Neots, Cambridgeshire, PE19 6EN
Home care · CQC Requires improvement · Run by Paxigate Healthcare Limited
We at Paxigate Healthcare are proud to provide compassionate home care across St. Neots and the surrounding Cambridgeshire communities, supporting people to live safely and comfortably in the place they know best: their own home. Based in...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Learning Disability / Autism, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Younger Adults - Mears Care - St Neots · 3a Little End Road, St. Neots, Cambridgeshire, PE19 8JH
Home care · CQC Good · Run by Mears Extra Care Limited
Mears Care in St Neots is a home care agency supporting adults in their own homes across the area. The people we work with are a wide mix: older people and younger adults, people living with dementia, adults with a learning disability and...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Learning Disability / Autism, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment, Younger Adults, Eating Disorders, Alcohol / Drug Misuse - Cherish Social Care Cambridge · Cherish Social Care Ltd, St. Neots, Bedford, PE19 6WA
Home care · Run by Cherish Social Care Ltd
Cherish Social Care provides support at home to adults in St Neots and the surrounding area. The people we visit include older people who need help to carry on living in their own houses, adults living with dementia, people with a learning...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Learning Disability / Autism, Physical Disability, Younger Adults
What home care costs
| Type of care | What it costs |
|---|---|
| Hourly care visits, East of England Middle half of prices from 15 agencies. Median £31.88. Shown for East of England because too few Cambridgeshire agencies publish a rate. | £26.00 to £34.30 an hour |
| What Cambridgeshire pays Average hourly rate, October 2026. | £24.32 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
- Paxigate Healthcare Limited, 25 November 2022, Requires improvement
- Mears Care - St Neots, 11 February 2022, Good
Longest since a report
- Mears Care - St Neots, 11 February 2022, Good
- Paxigate Healthcare Limited, 25 November 2022, Requires improvement
Frequently asked questions about home care in St. Neots
How many home care agencies are there in St. Neots?
St. Neots has 6 CQC registered home care agencies: 1 Good, 1 Requires improvement, 4 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 St. Neots?
Hourly care visits, East of England: £26.00 to £34.30 an hour. Middle half of prices from 15 agencies. Median £31.88. Shown for East of England because too few Cambridgeshire 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 St. Neots were inspected most recently?
Paxigate Healthcare Limited (25 November 2022) and Mears Care - St Neots (11 February 2022) have the most recent CQC reports.