Ribble Court

150 Liverpool Old Road, Much Hoole, Preston PR4 4QB
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9.4 25 Reviews
  • Ribble Court, Preston
Ribble Court offers luxury residential dementia care and specialist/complex nursing care, tailored to each individual in a safe, secure and friendly environment.

Situated in the heart of Much Hoole, near Preston in Lancashire, Ribble Court brings together the best of modern design and technology with the highest levels of care and premium comfort.

The 53 spacious and stylish bedrooms are all complete with an en-suite and the team is highly experienced and able to provide a personalised service to every resident.

Residents are offered a wide choice of freshly prepared meals from a daily, ever-changing menu to ensure all likes are catered for.

And the home goes to great lengths to ensure residents are afforded opportunities to pursue hobbies and interests that are dear to them through an extensive weekly activity programme.

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Care Provided by Ribble Court

  • Primary Care Categories
  • Dementia
  • Older Person Care
  • Physical Disability
  • Respite Care
  • Sensory Impairment
  • Younger Adults
  • Care Types Provided
  • Dementia Nursing Care
  • Dementia Residential Care
  • Nursing Care
  • Residential Care
  • For a maximum of 53 Service Users
  • Privately Owned
  • Care Offered
  • AIDS/HIV
  • Alzheimer's
  • Bariatric Care/Obesity
  • Bipolar/Manic Depression
  • Cancer Care
  • Cerebral Palsy
  • Colitis & Crohn's Disease
  • COPD/Pulmonary Disease
  • Down Syndrome
  • Epilepsy
  • Head/Brain Injury
  • Hearing Impairment
  • Huntington's Disease
  • Korsakoff Syndrome
  • Motor Neurone Disease
  • Multiple Sclerosis
  • Muscular Dystrophy
  • Neuropathic
  • Orthopaedic
  • Parkinson's Disease
  • Prader-Willi Syndrome
  • Schizophrenia
  • Speech Impairment
  • Stroke
  • Visual Impairment
  • Other Care Provided
  • Convalescent Care
  • End of Life Care
  • Own GP if required
  • Palliative Care
  • Separate Specialist Dementia Care Unit

Good to Know

  • Person in charge
  • Dawn Fawthorp (Home Manager)
  • Admission Criteria
    • Ages 21+
  • Room Information
    • Single Rooms (53)
    • Couples/Companion Rooms (0)
    • Single Rooms with ensuite Wet Room (53)
  • Care Home Design/Build
    • Purpose Built: Yes
    • Last Refurbishment: 2020
    • Number of floors: 2

Funding & Fees Guide for Ribble Court

  • Funding Types Accepted
  • Self funding (Private)
  • Local Authority with Top-Up
  • Local Authority
  • NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC) Funding

  • Fees available upon request.

Facilities

  • Bar/Café
  • Close to Local shops
  • Gardens
  • Lift
  • Near Public Transport
  • Own Furniture if required
  • Pet Friendly (or by arrangement)
  • Phone Point in own room
  • Residents Internet Access
  • Residents Kitchenette
  • Smoking not permitted
  • Television point in own room
  • Wheelchair Access
  • Visiting

  • Mealtimes are protected. Please contact the home to arrange a tour.


  • Parking

  • Free parking on site.


Ribble Court Reviews (25)

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9.4

Ribble Court has a Review Score of 9.4 (9.429) out of 10, based on 8 reviews in the last 2 years. Over all time Ribble Court has 25 reviews.

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Review from M E (Wife of Resident) published on 25 February 2022
Submitted via Postal Card • Report

Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

From the first contact with Ribble Court to date I can only complement the manager and the team in caring for my husband. There is nothing that is too much trouble. I always receive a warm welcome. I know that he is safe and receives the care that is tailored to him. It is always nice to see management
around who are approachable. The activities are also personalized accordingly. Cleanliness is top-notch, all dietary requirements are made for such a fussy eater. In all, I would thoroughly recommend it.

Reply from Samantha Smith, Home Manager at Ribble Court

Thank you for your response, I will ensure that your kind comments are shared with all of the staff.


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Review from T I (Daughter-in-law of Resident) published on 24 February 2022
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

This home is an excellent care home. They look after you and their residents.

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Review from H C (Sister-in-law of Resident) published on 18 February 2022
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 4.0 out of 5

Staff very friendly and care for my relative's needs. My relative responds well to them, which makes me feel that they are happy with them, as they are within their home setting.

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Review from Karen C (Daughter of Resident) published on 20 January 2022
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

Mum had short stays at two other care homes where she had five unwitnessed falls and was hospitalised for four. The final fall caused us to look for another home and we found Ribble Court. The manager contacted the hospital to ensure mum wasn’t discharged until she could be accepted into the home at
short notice, for which we will be forever grateful.
It is a lovely clean and well-equipped home run by staff that are marvellous. Mum had deteriorated significantly over the prior three months of hospital and care homestays and had lost 10Kg in weight. After just two weeks in Ribble Court she gained nearly 2Kg through eating delicious meals prepared on site and by appropriate continence management. The staff are proactive in providing care and keep me informed of any issues with mum’s health. Despite being unsteady on her feet, she has had no falls in over four months and is thriving. It was heart-warming when she told me that the people are so nice and that now she wants to stay there.

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Review from Janet F (Daughter of Resident) published on 18 January 2022
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

My father has been at Ribble Court for five months now and from my first initial visit I have nothing but praise for the staff, the care is excellent, the building is brand new and the facilities are 5 star. My father settled as soon as he moved in and this is due to the lovely welcoming attitude the
staff have towards him, they treat him as an individual and are attentive to his needs and requests. They are also very good at liaising with me regarding all issues of his health and there is always someone available to speak to when I go to visit. My first instinct when I went to look round with a view to my father becoming a resident at Ribble Court was ‘ this is the place I want for him to be cared for and be happy ‘ and it is certainly ticking all the boxes.

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Current Review Score: 9.4 (9.429)

Overview of Review Score

The Review Score of 9.4 (9.429) out of 10 for Ribble Court 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 8 Reviews in the last 24 months.

  • b) The score for the number of positive Reviews is 4.6 out of 5 from 8 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 4.874 for Ribble Court is calculated as follows: ( (84 Excellents x 5) + (10 Goods x 4) + (1 Satisfactorys x 3) ) ÷ 95 Ratings = 4.874

  • 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 4.555 Points relating to the number of positive Reviews for Ribble Court is based on 8 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 = 3.8

    • 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 53 registered maximum number of service users is 10.6. 8 Positive Reviews ÷ 10.6 = 0.755

  • 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: 12 Nov 2021

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    Good

  • Effective

    Good

  • Responsive

    Good

  • Safe

    Good

  • Well-led

    Good

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

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Meet the Team (4)

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Dawn Fawthorp

Job Title: Home Manager

Joined: 2024

Dawn joined Ribble Court in March 2024 as a Deputy Manager. She has since been internally promoted to Home Manager. She is passionate about her job and likes to work alongside her dedicated team at Ribble Court Care Home, to ensure the residents have the best quality of life they can possibly have.


Dawn qualified as a Registered General Nurse in 1994, working within the NHS, Private Hospitals and Hospices, HMP Services & Nursing Homes.


Abbi

Abbi Street

Job Title: Activities Coordinator

Joined: 2022

Abbi has worked at Ribble Court since 2022 providing activities based on the resident's interests. She also plans events with external companies, trips out into the local community, and arranges for people to visit the home, including but not limited to regular entertainment, fitness classes and much more.


In Abbi's personal time, she likes to do landscape photography, bake cakes and treats, read books and go out for long walks. She is a very crafty person that enjoys painting and crocheting.


Abbi loves to make the residents smile. She enjoys watching them grow, seeing them interact with each other and the care staff and believes this is what makes her job worthwhile.


Claire

Claire Ratcliffe

Job Title: Home Administrator

Joined: 2021

Claire joined Ribble Court Care Home in August 2021.


She has previous experience in the care sector as a Care Assistant and progressed to a Senior Care Assistant.


Claire loves her administration role and believes Ribble Court is a beautiful environment to work in, she loves making special connections with the resident's families and assisting people looking around the facility for the first time.


Sarah

Sarah Mason

Job Title: Clinical Deputy Manager

Joined: 2021

Sarah joined Ribble Court in October 2021 as a Registered Nurse. In 2022 she was promoted to Bariatric Clinical Lead as part of a new service and has since been internally promoted to interim Deputy Manager.
Sarah assists the Registered Manager with the everyday running of the home and ensures high-quality person-centred care is being delivered at Ribble Court at all times. This includes but is not limited to, recruitment of staff, audits, medication management, reviewing care plans and having 1 to 1's with the residents.


Sarah has worked in the care sector since the age of 14 where she volunteered with the Sue Ryder Foundation. At the age of 30, she became a Mental Health Nurse and worked with the NHS for 5 years as a staff nurse and then as a deputy ward manager through the COVID pandemic.
Since then she has worked in private care sector, progressing from Nurse to Clinical Lead and then her current role as Deputy Manager.


Sarah is passionate about her job and likes to work alongside other passionate employees in Ribble Court Care Home, to ensure the residents have the best quality of life they can possibly have and that their families feel supported.