Hale Place Care Solutions

79 Old Road, East Peckham, Tonbridge TN12 5EN
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9.9 57 Reviews
  • Hale Place Care Solutions, Tonbridge
Hale Place has received exemplary inspection reports and highest ratings since 1988 and was rated 'Outstanding' by the CQC in May 2015 and 2017. Hale Place won the coveted National Care Awards ‘Care Home of the Year’ 2022.

This multi-award-winning provider has been featured on BBC and ITV programmes as a leading dementia care provider providing homely environments where people flourish.

Care Provided by Hale Place Care Solutions

  • Primary Care Categories
  • Dementia
  • Mental Health Condition
  • Older Person Care
  • Respite Care
  • Care Types Provided
  • Dementia Residential Care
  • For a maximum of 13 Service Users
  • Privately Owned
  • Care Offered
  • Alcohol Dependence (past or present)
  • Alzheimer's
  • Bipolar/Manic Depression
  • Challenging Behaviour/Psychosis
  • COPD/Pulmonary Disease
  • Epilepsy
  • Head/Brain Injury
  • Hearing Impairment
  • Huntington's Disease
  • Korsakoff Syndrome
  • Parkinson's Disease
  • Speech Impairment
  • Stroke
  • Other Care Provided
  • Day Care
  • End of Life Care
  • Own GP if required
  • Palliative Care
  • Separate Specialist Dementia Care Unit

Good to Know

  • Owner
  • Hale Place Care Homes Ltd
  • Person in charge
  • Danielle Cave (Registered Manager)
  • Admission Criteria
    • Private funding referrals only
    • Ages 55+
  • Room Information
    • Single Rooms (9)
    • Couples/Companion Rooms (2)
  • Care Home Design/Build
    • Purpose Built: No
    • Last Refurbishment: 2022
    • Number of floors: 1

Funding & Fees Guide for Hale Place Care Solutions

  • Funding Types Accepted
  • Self funding (Private)
  • Local Authority with Top-Up
  • Local Authority
  • NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC) Funding
  • Weekly Charges per Person
    • Self-Funded Residential Dementia Care £1,650 – £1,650
    • RESPITE Self-Funded Residential Dementia Care £1,650 – £1,650
  • Fully inclusive, including hairdressing, outings and events. Absolutely no additional costs.


  • (these prices are only a guideline, please contact Hale Place Care Solutions to find out the exact price for your requirements)

Facilities

  • Close to Local shops
  • Gardens
  • Minibus or other transport
  • Near Public Transport
  • Own Furniture if required
  • Pet Friendly (or by arrangement)
  • Phone Point in own room
  • Residents Internet Access
  • Smoking not permitted
  • Stairlift
  • Television point in own room
  • Wheelchair Access
  • Visiting
  • To avoid unnecessary disturbance to people living at Hale Place, the home respectfully request visitors book an appointment to view.


  • Parking
  • On site and road parking available.


Hale Place Care Solutions Reviews (57)

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Hale Place Care Solutions has a Review Score of 9.9 (9.949) out of 10, based on 13 reviews in the last 2 years. Over all time Hale Place Care Solutions has 57 reviews.

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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

This really is the most wonderful care home imaginable for my father. He is treated with utmost dignity and care and respect. So reassuring to know he's at Hale Place Care Solutions.

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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

Hale Place is the most caring wonderful place for your loved one to be in. Very much home from home. The carers are permanent staff and familiar friendly reassuring faces to the residents. It really is one of a kind.

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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

What a wonderful place to live! The staff are caring, permanent and well trained. The home is very well run and we have had no hesitation in recommending it to anyone who asks. We consider ourselves extremely lucky to have found somewhere for Mum to live that treats residents and family as individuals.
Mum is contented and well looked after and we are delighted to see this every time we visit.

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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

When my mother reached the point where she could no longer live at home Hale Place was the only care home that offered an experience that was unlike others we viewed. Mum has been a resident for almost a year now and is very happy and well cared for.

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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

We had to make the difficult decision to move Mum into a care home in April and we are so pleased to have found Hale Place, as soon as we visited we knew this was the right place for Mum. It is a small, clean and friendly care home with a homely feel, run by a team of staff that clearly have a special
understanding of how to care for people with dementia.
Mum has her own room with an en-suite and we were able to put some personal items in her room to help her feel at home. We were very anxious about how Mum would react on moving in day but with the support of the very professional and caring staff, everything went smoothly. Mum was made to feel very welcome and has settled in well and is very happy. She especially enjoys time spent with the animals.
When we visit we always receive a warm welcome from the staff and they are always available to support us and answer any concerns we might have. We are happy knowing that Mum is safe and well cared for and highly recommend Hale Place.

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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

I have been visiting a very dear friend of mine at Hale Place Care Home for the past two years. On all of my visits I have received a very warm welcome and my friend, who is now almost 95, has expressed to me how much she enjoys being at Hale Place. She has a room with an ensuite WC and I have observed
how competent, caring and helpful all the staff are. Since the pandemic occurred Hale Place has provided a small conservatory type hub for one visitor meetings, which is adjacent to a small garden with two rabbits and two chickens and a wonderful lodge building in the grounds which is so family-friendly and allows up to six visitors. I would deem the facilities second to none. The atmosphere is so warm and friendly and reassuring. There are plans for outdoor activities in the gardens once the weather becomes warmer. My visit yesterday to her, with a longstanding friend of hers, was a real joy. I couldn't recommend Hale Place more highly to anyone needing a home from home care.

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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

After the tricky year we have all experienced with Covid, I was delighted when I went in to visit my nan to see the vast amount of changes, made to allow safe visiting for us all by building two brand new visiting areas, especially the new activities lodge that the manager has told me that we can use
to throw a birthday party when Covid restrictions apply. Also the addition of the pets corner, my nan has always loved animals.
I couldn't have felt more safe and happy to be back at Hale Place. Whilst other businesses may have been struggling, Hale Place has most definitely been thriving! I could not recommend this home enough.

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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

My relative has been at Hale Place Care Solutions for some time now and with the Covid restriction over the last year I had found it very difficult, but, with the daily updates from Hale Place management it really helped to ease the stress of not seeing them. The home has gone above and beyond to make
sure our relatives are safe and well looked after.

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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

In recent times the whole care sector have been in turmoil. That being said all the management team and staff at Hale Place have gone above and beyond all of our expectations. We have been receiving weekly reports and updates on all that’s happening regarding the efforts to prevent an outbreak of COVID
-19. The office staff have been assisting zoom calls between me and mum which has been the highlight for me and my family throughout the pandemic.
A massive hats off to all.

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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

This was a very difficult decision to move Mum to a care home in the current pandemic. We were extremely concerned with not being able to properly view the home, but we really shouldn't have worried. Although mum has only been in Hale Place for a few weeks, the improvement in her is beyond words. She
seems very settled and happy. The staff and managers are wonderful and nothing is a problem. They are all very caring and professional. They have many activities, which mum loves, particularly the singing and dancing and we cannot wait for when we are all free and Mum can go on the outings with them all, she will love it. We, as a family, would 100% recommend Hale Place. So happy we found them.

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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

I know that mum is very well cared for and looked after.
It is very reassuring knowing that she is safe and well cared for at Hale Place.

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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

My husband arrived at Hale Place Nursing Home, East Peckham on the 10th May 2019. All the staff have made him very welcome, he now is part of a very happy family. When I visit, I am always greeted with a smiling face. The nursing home is spotlessly clean and tidy. They have regular entertainment who
visit, also many trips out in their minibus. One memorable occasion was a visit to Hever Castle, the invitation was for all at Hale Place, and family like me were also invited. All staff and management are so kind and patient. I have seen in these last months a great improvement in my husband. Very kind and professional management and staff.

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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

What a happy place this care home is. The staff are unfailing kind and patient. The atmosphere is always calm and the residents enjoy free access to the pretty, secluded garden. They have a cat and even two dogs and the elderly folk have many stimulating and interesting trips out for lunch and trips
along the river on a bot to feed the swans. My mother feels safe there and is completely contented - what more could I ask?

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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

I highly recommend Hale Place not only for its specialist dementia care but also for its sense of complete and utter well being for the residents and its staff, its strong sense of humanity and its clean, light and homely environment.

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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

Our Mum has been a resident for 2 years. She is very happy and content. Hale Place has a very homely feel. The staff are very friendly, caring and welcoming. All residents are treated with respect, compassion and dignity, it’s like being part of a big family. It has a great safe garden which is encouraged
and used by residents, and visitors. You can visit at anytime, no need to notify them first....which to me means that they have nothing to hide. The staff are very approachable and will answer any questions or concerns that you might have.

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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

Upon my first visit to see my Gran, I felt totally at ease and welcomed by the amazing team at Hale Place. They go above and beyond to make everyone, residents and visitors alike to feel at home with their warmth and care.
My Gran didn't have a very nice journey before finding this little treasure
of a place, being left to her own devices at her previous 'care home'.
At Hale Place, there's always lots going on to keep her active mentally and physically.
The beautiful gardens are her new favourite place.
My family and I cannot express our gratitude enough to such a wonderful place.

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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

Many thanks for everything that you did for my mother during the six years that she spent at Hale Place.


You not only offered her a secure, comfortable and homely place in which to live, you also ensured that she was always wonderfully well-cared for even as she became increasingly unable to look

after herself.


And you combined great personal kindness with a professional approach to the health issues that often accompany dementia, spotting and dealing with them before they could cause Mum distress.


For myself, I will always remember the warm welcome that I received every time I visited, from people I came to know as a second family in what became a second home.


Again, many thanks to you all for what you did for Mum and for the hard work you continue to put into creating somewhere as special as Hale Place.


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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

My wonderful mum was living with the anxiety connected to Alzheimer's. Since being at Hale Place we have seen a transformation - she is relaxed and happy and has made new friends in both the other residents and staff. The accommodation and ethos of Hale Place is fantastic, exactly what we needed to
assist mum during her decline due to Alzheimer's disease.

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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

I was the carer for my friend before she required full-time residential care. We could not have wished for a more caring home and staff, I would recommend Hale Place to anyone.

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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

Fantastic care, all the residents seem extremely contented and calm. There are lots of activities and every effort is made to keep up interest. The rooms are very comfortable and it feels like 'home', not an institution. The food is excellent and prepared on site. I can't fault this home in any way
and can't recommend it highly enough.

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Current Review Score: 9.9 (9.949)

Overview of Review Score

The Review Score of 9.9 (9.949) out of 10 for Hale Place Care Solutions is based on a) the Average Rating and b) the number of positive Reviews.

  • a) The Average Rating is 4.9 out of 5 from 13 Reviews in the last 24 months.

  • b) The score for the number of positive Reviews is 5.0 out of 5 from 13 positive Reviews in the last 24 months.

Detailed Breakdown of Review Score

The maximum Review Score for a Care Home is 10, which is made up from the Average Rating of Reviews (maximum of 5 points) and the Number of Reviews (maximum of 5 points) in the last 24 months:

  • a) 5 Points are available for the Average Rating from all Reviews in the last 24 months.

    The Average Rating of 4.949 for Hale Place Care Solutions is calculated as follows: ( (149 Excellents x 5) + (6 Goods x 4) + (1 Satisfactorys x 3) ) ÷ 156 Ratings = 4.949

  • b) 5 Points are available for the number of Positive Reviews in the last 24 months. A Positive Review is defined as any Review with an 'Overall Experience' of '4' or '5' (out of a max rating '5').

    The 5 Points relating to the number of positive Reviews for Hale Place Care Solutions is based on 13 positive Reviews in the last 24 months and is calculated as per below:

    The 5 points available are broken down as follows:

    • i) 4 points are available for the first 10 Positive Reviews in the last 24 months; 3 points for the first Positive Review, and then 0.125 Points for each of the next four Positive Reviews and then 0.1 Points for the next five Positive Reviews. (1st = 3.000, 2nd = 0.125, 3rd = 0.125, 4th = 0.125, 5th = 0.125, 6th = 0.100, 7th = 0.100, 8th = 0.100, 9th = 0.100, 10th = 0.100) 3 + 0.125 + 0.125 + 0.125 + 0.125 + 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 = 4

    • ii) 1 point is available for the number of Positive Reviews reaching 20% of the registered maximum number of service users in the last 24 months. If this number is partially reached, then that proportion of 1 point is given. eg a Care Home registered for a maximum of 50 service users has to reach 10 Positive Reviews to receive 1 point, if it has 7 reviews it will receive 0.7 points. 20% of the 13 registered maximum number of service users is 2.6, which has been reached with 13 Positive reviews. Points = 1

  • When a Review is submitted by someone who has previously submitted a Review, only the latest Review will count towards the Review Score.

  • If a Care Home does not have a review in the last 24 months, then it will not have a Review Score.

Performance

Care Quality Commission (CQC) Rating

Date: 11 Nov 2017

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Outstanding

  • Caring

    Outstanding
  • Effective

    Good
  • Responsive

    Outstanding
  • Safe

    Good
  • Well-led

    Outstanding

Care Quality Commission is responsible for the registration and inspection of social care services in England.

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Meet the Team (2)

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Kevin Hewlett MBE

Job Title: Managing Director and Owner

Joined: 1988

Kevin stands as a distinguished owner/manager of dementia care services, delivering outstanding results and enriching the lives of people living with dementia.


His commitment to excellence is evidenced by 36 years of outstanding care inspection reports. The quality and impact of his leadership are further highlighted by unparalleled testimonials from residents, their families, health professionals, and dignitaries, attesting to the exemplary and unique model of care he has developed that delivers 'Happy Lives for Everyone'.


The care team focuses on creating personalised, vibrant lives for individuals with dementia, using smiles and laughter as key indicators of happiness and well-being.


Kevin has received national acclaim for his outstanding care model and lifelong contributions to dementia care, securing every prestigious national care and business award in the field:


2023 MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) For services to People with Dementia


2023 Family Business of the Year UK (FSB National Awards)


2023 Best Dementia Residential Home 2023 (Business Elite Awards)


2023 Quality Hallmark (Gold Standards Framework)


2022 Care Home of the Year (National Care Awards)


2022 Leadership (National Care Awards)


2021 Lifetime Achievement in Care (National Care Awards)


2021 Management Team of the Year (Caring UK Awards)


2016 Dementia Care Manager (Great British Care Awards)


2016 Lifetime Achievement (Great British Care Awards)


2016 Sustained Excellence in Person-Centred Care (Healthcare Awards)


2014 Outstanding Contribution to Care (Great British Care Awards)


2014 Quality of Care (Patient Safety & Care Awards)


2014 Person-Centred Care (Nursing & Residential Care Awards)


Relevant Care Qualifications: Registered Manager Qualification; HNDip Care Management; HNDip Bus & Finance; Dip in Bus Studies; Promoting Independence L3; V1/V2 Internal Verifier and A1/A2, D32/33 Assessor Awards.


Danielle

Danielle Cave

Job Title: Registered Manager

Joined: 2009

A professional manager with over 14 years of experience within Hale Place. Danielle progressed from a highly trusted and competent night carer, senior care worker, and deputy manager to a registered manager in 2018.


Danielle's attention to detail ensures regulatory compliance at all times and outstanding outcomes for service users. Her drive, enthusiasm, and determination to deliver a service that enhances people's lives are some of her finest qualities and are much appreciated by all her relatives, as detailed in our testimonials.


Qualifications: Postgraduate Level 7 Diploma in Health and Social Care Management. Health and Social Care Diploma Level 5.
Health and Social Care Diploma/NVQ Level 2 and 3.
A1 Assessor Award L3;