Can Leicester City Council fund a nursing home placement?

It can, where a care needs assessment confirms nursing care is required and a financial assessment places the person within the nationally set thresholds. Need is weighed before money, so the needs assessment always comes first. Where the person's needs stem mainly from health rather than social care, continuing healthcare funding from the health service may meet the entire cost. Anyone paying privately should still claim the contribution towards the nursing element of the fee.

How is a care needs assessment arranged in Leicester?

Approach the adult social care team at Leicester City Council and request one, for yourself or on behalf of a relative who consents. There is no charge and anyone who appears to need care and support has a legal right to an assessment whatever their savings. The assessor will look at health conditions, mobility, daily tasks and existing support before recommending a level of care. Hospital ward teams can also make the referral ahead of discharge.

How soon should the search in Leicester begin?

Sooner than most families expect, because assessments and funding decisions take weeks rather than days. The better regarded homes tend to be the ones with waiting lists, so a late start narrows the choice considerably. An early start allows repeat visits and a proper comparison of the inspection reports. If a discharge is being arranged, ask the ward for time rather than agreeing to the first available place.

Which nursing homes are registered in Leicester?

Fourteen match this search and all of them appear on this page. They include Everdale Grange, Watermead Rose Care Home, London Road Specialist Nursing Home, Greenacre Park, Scraptoft Court Care Home, Barclay House and Aaron Court. Each entry links to a profile with registration details and the latest Care Quality Commission judgement. The list follows the live register and changes as homes open, close or vary their registration.

What should I ask when visiting a nursing home in Leicester?

Ask how many registered nurses are on duty overnight and how the home covers sickness and leave. Request the most recent inspection report and ask the manager to explain anything inspectors raised and what has changed since. Watch whether residents look occupied and are spoken to warmly rather than simply supervised. Ask what would happen if health declined, so you know whether the placement could continue.

What separates a nursing home from a residential care home?

A residential care home provides personal care from trained care staff, covering washing, dressing, meals, medication and company. A nursing home provides that same support and keeps registered nurses on duty at all hours, so clinical care happens on the premises. That matters for anyone with wounds needing dressing, complex medication or a condition expected to progress. All fourteen providers listed here hold registration for nursing care.

Nursing Homes in Leicester

Leicester has 14 CQC registered nursing homes. 11 are rated Good, 3 Requires improvement. 9 of the 14 were last inspected more than three years ago.

Source: Care Quality Commission register, kept up to date as ratings change.

Leicester at a glance

What the numbers say about care for older people in Leicester.

Leicester City Council pays, residential care: £1,044 a week. Self-funders are typically asked £1,233 to £1,449, median £1,356
Care home beds filled across Leicester: 88%. The 12 month average is 88%.
Care home beds per 1,000 people aged 75+: 125
People aged 75 and over: 20,800. Rising to 25,900 by 2035, up 25%
Care homes, last 12 months: 4 opened, 0 closed. 5 changed owner, covering 203 beds.
Who pays, across Leicester (estimate): 44% council, 22% self. The rest is NHS funded or other.
Living with dementia, aged 65 and over (estimate): 2,800. Rising to 3,500 by 2035, up 24%
People aged 85 and over: 5,700. Rising to 7,600 by 2035, up 34%

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Planning and Paying for Nursing Care in Leicester

Cost and eligibility usually settle a shortlist before preference gets a look in, so those questions deserve dealing with first. The route opens with a care needs assessment, which is free, available to anyone who appears to need care and support whatever their savings, and designed to establish what level of care is genuinely required. It sometimes finds that a residential home or support at home would answer the need as well as a nursing placement would.

Requesting an Assessment

Requests go to Leicester City Council Adult Social Care, the authority responsible for assessing people who live in Leicester and for arranging funded support where someone qualifies. The assessor considers health conditions, mobility, daily routines and whatever help family already provides, then records a recommendation in writing. Ask sooner than feels necessary, because an assessment arranged against a discharge deadline leaves very little room to compare one home with another properly.

Means Testing and Additional Funding

A financial assessment then measures income, savings and capital against nationally set thresholds to fix the split between personal contribution and public funding. The health service contribution towards the nursing portion of a fee is not means tested, so it should be claimed even by those arranging their own placement. Where health needs are substantial and continuing, continuing healthcare funding may cover the whole cost, and asking to be assessed for it is reasonable rather than presumptuous.

Cost Context

Nursing fees run above residential rates because qualified nurses must be rostered at all times, and they differ across the homes listed here according to room type, setting within Leicester and the intensity of care needed. Ask for the figure in writing, establish what falls outside it, and confirm the notice period before any rise takes effect. Ask too how fees are treated if a resident spends time in hospital.

Choosing a Nursing Home in Leicester and What to Check

Eleven homes here hold a Good rating, among them Everdale Grange, Oakdale Care, Watermead Rose Care Home, London Road Specialist Nursing Home, Greenacre Park, Harley Grange Nursing Home, Scraptoft Court Care Home, Barclay House, Toller Road, Aaron Court and Harley House Care Home. Western Park View Nursing Home, Dane View Care Home With Nursing and Hayes Park Nursing Home require improvement.

How Much Weight a Judgement Deserves

Treat a rating as a place to start reading rather than a conclusion. Check the inspection date, since homes change managers and owners between visits. Where a home requires improvement, the report will show whether the concerns touched safety and dignity or sat with governance and paperwork, and those deserve very different weight. Ask the manager directly what has changed since and how the improvement is being monitored.

Questions Worth Putting Directly

Ask how many registered nurses cover the night shift and how often agency staff fill gaps. Ask how dementia is supported where that applies, and whether the home can care for someone approaching the end of life without a further move. Visit twice if you can, once by arrangement and once informally near a mealtime.

14 nursing homes in Leicester

Aaron Court · 17 Ramsey Way, Leicester, Leicester, LE5 1SJ
Nursing home · CQC Good · Nursing on site · Run by Abbey Healthcare (Aaron Court) Limited
Aaron Court is a nursing home in Leicester. Qualified nurses are on duty here at all hours, and that is what allows us to support people whose needs a residential home could not safely meet. We care for older adults, including many living...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Learning Disability / Autism, Physical Disability, Younger Adults, Respite Care
Everdale Grange · 78-80 Lutterworth Road, Leicester, Leicester, LE2 8PG
Nursing home · CQC Good · Nursing on site · Run by Langdale House Limited
We at Everdale Grange are proud to offer compassionate nursing home care in the heart of Leicester, providing a welcoming sanctuary where residents receive expert clinical support alongside warm, person centred attention every single day....
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment, Younger Adults, Respite Care
Oakdale Care · Radstone Walk, Leicester, Leicester, LE5 4UH
Nursing home · CQC Good · Nursing on site · Run by Oakdale Care Limited
At Oakdale Care, we provide nursing home support for adults in the heart of Leicester, and we take real pride in the community we have built here. Our most recent Care Quality Commission rating is "good", which reflects the effort our...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment, Younger Adults, Respite Care
Watermead Rose Care Home · 514 Melton Road, Leicester, Leicester, LE4 7SP
Nursing home · CQC Good · Nursing on site · Run by Macc Care (Watermead) Limited
We at Watermead Rose Care Home are delighted to welcome you to our nursing home in Leicester, where compassionate nursing care and specialist dementia support come together in a warm, homely setting. Nestled within the LE postcode area of...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Physical Disability, Younger Adults, Respite Care
London Road Specialist Nursing Home · 362 London Road, Leicester, Leicester, LE2 2PU
Nursing home · CQC Good · Nursing on site · Run by Mauricare (London Road) Ltd
London Road Specialist Nursing Home is in Leicester. Having qualified nurses on duty means we can care for people whose health needs go beyond what a residential home can safely manage, and it usually means somebody can stay with us as...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment, Younger Adults, Respite Care
Greenacre Park · 2 Elmdon Drive, Leicester, Leicester, LE5 0BN
Nursing home · CQC Good · Nursing on site · Run by Greenacre Park Health Care Limited
Greenacre Park is a nursing home in Leicester. Because we have qualified nurses on duty, we can look after people whose health needs are beyond what a residential home can safely manage, and we can usually carry on caring for somebody as...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Younger Adults, Respite Care
Western Park View Nursing Home · 390 Hinckley Road, Leicester, Leicester, LE3 0WA
Nursing home · CQC Requires improvement · Nursing on site · Run by Western Park Leicester Limited
We are Western Park View Nursing Home in Leicester. We care for older people who need qualified nursing alongside support with daily living, including people with physical disabilities. Respite stays are available. Our most recent overall...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Physical Disability, Respite Care
Harley Grange Nursing Home · 25 Elms Road, Leicester, Leicester, LE2 3JD
Nursing home · CQC Good · Nursing on site · Run by HC-One Limited
Harley Grange Nursing Home is in Leicester. We care for adults who need registered nursing alongside help with daily living, including older people, people living with dementia, adults with a learning disability, autistic adults, people...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Learning Disability / Autism, Physical Disability, Younger Adults, Respite Care
Scraptoft Court Care Home · 273A Scraptoft Lane, Leicester, Leicester, LE5 2HT
Nursing home · CQC Good · Nursing on site · Run by MyMil Limited
Scraptoft Court Care Home is a nursing home in Leicester. We care for older people whose health needs go beyond residential care, for younger adults living with conditions that require qualified nursing, for people with physical...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Younger Adults, Respite Care
Dane View Care Home With Nursing · 165 Glenfield Road, Leicester, Leicester, LE3 6DP
Nursing home · CQC Requires improvement · Nursing on site · Run by Alexandra Care (Leicester) Limited
Dane View is a care home with nursing in Leicester. We care for older people and younger adults whose needs include nursing, including many living with dementia, adults with learning disabilities and autistic adults, people managing mental...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Learning Disability / Autism, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment, Younger Adults, Respite Care
Barclay House · 165 Barclay Street, Leicester, Leicester, LE3 0JE
Nursing home · CQC Good · Nursing on site · Run by Plans4Rehab Limited
Barclay House is a nursing home in Leicester. We provide nursing care for older people and younger adults, including people with a physical disability and people managing a mental health condition, and we offer respite stays alongside...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Younger Adults, Respite Care
Hayes Park Nursing Home · 2 Cropthorne Avenue, Leicester, Leicester, LE5 4QJ
Nursing home · CQC Requires improvement · Nursing on site · Run by Huskards New Care Ltd
Hayes Park Nursing Home is in Leicester. We care for adults who need registered nursing alongside help with daily living, including older people, people living with dementia, people with physical disabilities and younger adults whose...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Physical Disability, Younger Adults, Respite Care
Harley House Care Home · 10-12 Elms Road, Leicester, Leicester, LE2 3JE
Nursing home · CQC Good · Nursing on site · Run by Harley House Care Home Limited
Harley House Care Home is a nursing home in Leicester providing nursing care for older people, including those with physical disabilities and complex health needs. Respite stays are available alongside permanent places. Our most recent...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Physical Disability, Respite Care
Toller Road · 13 Toller Road, Leicester, Leicester, LE2 3HP
Nursing home · CQC Good · Nursing on site · Run by Cygnet (OE) Limited
We are a nursing home on Toller Road in Leicester, supporting adults whose needs include nursing care. Those living here include older people, adults with learning disabilities and autistic adults, and people managing mental health...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Learning Disability / Autism, Mental Health, Younger Adults, Respite Care

What care costs in Leicester, per week

Type of care	What the council pays	What self-funders are typically asked
Residential care East Midlands figure, because too few Leicester homes publish this price. 34 homes. Median £1,356.	£1,044	£1,233 to £1,449
Nursing care England figure, because too few Leicester homes publish this price. 140 homes. Median £1,916.	£1,195	£1,600 to £2,071
Residential dementia care East Midlands figure, because too few Leicester homes publish this price. 20 homes. Median £1,350.	Not published separately	£1,278 to £1,475
Nursing dementia care England figure, because too few Leicester homes publish this price. 75 homes. Median £2,050.	Not published separately	£1,890 to £2,221

Published prices are often starting prices, and come from homes that publish fees, so treat them as a guide. Ask the home for its own price. Powered by Orrery Intelligence.

Inspected most recently

Greenacre Park, 26 September 2025, Good
Hayes Park Nursing Home, 2 July 2025, Requires improvement
Watermead Rose Care Home, 18 June 2025, Good

Longest since a report

Barclay House, 8 August 2019, Good
Harley Grange Nursing Home, 6 September 2019, Good
Toller Road, 25 April 2020, Good

Frequently asked questions about nursing homes in Leicester

How many nursing homes are there in Leicester?

Leicester has 14 CQC registered nursing homes: 11 Good, 3 Requires improvement. Counts come from the CQC register and are kept up to date as ratings change.

How much does a nursing home cost in Leicester?

Leicester City Council pays an average of £1,044 a week for residential care. Self-funders are typically asked £1,233 to £1,449 a week. East Midlands figure, because too few Leicester homes publish this price. 34 homes. Median £1,356. Published prices are often starting prices, and come from homes that publish fees, so treat them as a guide. Ask the home for its own price.

Which nursing homes in Leicester were inspected most recently?

Greenacre Park (26 September 2025), Hayes Park Nursing Home (2 July 2025) and Watermead Rose Care Home (18 June 2025) have the most recent CQC reports.

Nursing Homes near Leicester

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