Apex Healthcare Service Ltd
- Home care
- Dementia care
- Registered since 2017
- Caversham, Reading, South East
No overall rating
No overall rating: this location offers more than one kind of service, so the CQC rates each service separately.
At a glance
3 ratings
First rated Requires improvement in 2018, most recently Good in August 2024.
2 years
since the latest rating was published.
72%
of rated home care services in Reading are Good or Outstanding (87% across the South East, 88% across England).
Apex Healthcare Service Ltd: inspection record
This service has no overall rating at present. The squares show its earlier ratings.
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Ratings published by the Care Quality Commission.
Compare nearby
Nearest rated Good or Outstanding: SureCare (Reading & East Berkshire) (Good, less than 0.1 miles away) and Caremark (West Berkshire and Reading) (Good, 0.4 miles away).
Nearest home care services:
- – Address Healthcare Not yet rated, less than 0.1 miles away
- – Embrace Community Care Service Limited Not yet rated, less than 0.1 miles away
- – PureSoul Care Ltd Not yet rated, less than 0.1 miles away
- G SureCare (Reading & East Berkshire) Good, less than 0.1 miles away
- – KDL Healthcare Ltd Not yet rated, 0.3 miles away
What inspectors found
From the Care Quality Commission's assessment published 28 August 2024 (assessment visit 15 January 2024). Quoted under the Open Government Licence.
Date of Assessment 6 January to 30th January 2024
Apex Healthcare Services LTD (Domiciliary care) provides care and support to people living in their own homes. The service provides support to older people, people living with dementia and people with a physical disability. We carried out an off site assessment on 6 January 2024. We looked at 8 quality statements; Involving people to manage risks; Safe and effective staffing; Learning culture; Safe systems, pathways and transitions; Safeguarding; Safe environments; Infection control and Medicines optimisation.
- Safe Good
Read the rest of CQC's summary
Improvements had been made and people told us they felt safe being cared for by staff. There was a open and transparent culture of reflective practice and continuous learning amongst staff. Staff worked in partnership with people to help safeguard them from all types of risk or abuse. Staff worked in a person centred way to help people understand and manage risks to enable them to do what was important to them. Staff worked to ensure people's environments, and the equipment they used to support people, were safe. There were enough, consistent staff to support people safely. People were protected from the risk of getting an infection and medicines were managed safely.
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Safe
Good
People were protected from the risk of harm and abuse. People were supported to understand and manage risks both to themselves and in their environment. Care plans were clear and provided sufficient guidance to staff to keep people safe. There were sufficient numbers of appropriately trained staff to support people.
Questions to ask the service
- Ask to see the most recent Care Quality Commission (CQC) report and what the service did about any points in it.
- Ask how visit times are agreed and who covers when your usual carer is away.
Registration details
- Registered manager
- Jennifer Lebrecht
- Registered with the CQC since
- What it provides
- Domiciliary care service, Supported living service
- Who it supports
- Dementia, Learning disabilities or autistic spectrum disorder, Older People, Physical Disability, Sensory Impairment, Younger Adults
Inspection report
Read the full inspection report (opens the Care Quality Commission website)2 inspection reports, latest 24 July 2019. Latest assessment published 28 August 2024; the Care Quality Commission's newer assessments are published on its website rather than as reports.
The rating is the Care Quality Commission's. We show it as published and do not change it.
Who runs it
- Provider
- Apex Healthcare Services Ltd
- Ownership type
- Organisation
- Companies House number
- 10355834 (opens Companies House)
Getting help from Reading Borough Council
The council can assess what care someone needs and tell them what help with the cost they may get.
- Adult social care at Reading Borough Council
- Ask for a care needs assessment
- Phone: 0118 937 3747
- Contact adult social care online
- Support for carers
- Paying for care: Reading Borough Council
Checked on the council's website, November 2026.
Common questions
- Does Apex Healthcare Service Ltd provide nursing care?
- The Care Quality Commission's register does not list nursing care for Apex Healthcare Service Ltd.
- When was Apex Healthcare Service Ltd last inspected?
- The Care Quality Commission's latest rating for Apex Healthcare Service Ltd was published on 28 August 2024.
- Who runs Apex Healthcare Service Ltd?
- Apex Healthcare Service Ltd is run by Apex Healthcare Services Ltd.
- What is Apex Healthcare Service Ltd's CQC rating?
- No overall rating: this location offers more than one kind of service, so the CQC rates each service separately.
Contact
- Phone
- 0118 391 3542
- Address
- Suite 4, 62 Portman Road, Reading, RG30 1EA Map (opens Google Maps)
Compare nearby
Nearest rated Good or Outstanding: SureCare (Reading & East Berkshire) (Good, less than 0.1 miles away) and Caremark (West Berkshire and Reading) (Good, 0.4 miles away).
Nearest home care services:
- – Address Healthcare Not yet rated, less than 0.1 miles away
- – Embrace Community Care Service Limited Not yet rated, less than 0.1 miles away
- – PureSoul Care Ltd Not yet rated, less than 0.1 miles away
- G SureCare (Reading & East Berkshire) Good, less than 0.1 miles away
- – KDL Healthcare Ltd Not yet rated, 0.3 miles away