Dementia Care Home

Barchester – Stamford Bridge Beaumont Care Home

Buttercrambe Road, York, Yorkshire, YO41 1AJ

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At a Glance

The information you need to decide whether this home warrants a closer look.

DCC Family Score
68/ 100
Weighted from family reviews
Dementia SpecialismConfirmed

Nursing homes

Families Rate The Staff72 / 100

Staff warmth score

“Well Looked After”65%

of reviewers answered yes

Good to know

  • Registered beds89
  • SpecialismsCaring for adults over 65 yrs, Caring for adults under 65 yrs, Dementia, Physical disabilities
  • Last inspected2018-10-04

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The Evidence

What the review data, the inspection reports, and the dementia-care evidence base tell us about this home.

Section 01

What families say

Visitors describe walking into light, airy spaces where staff stop to chat and residents gather for activities that actually seem to capture their interest. The dedicated activities team keeps things varied throughout the week, and families report seeing their loved ones visibly engaged and enjoying themselves.

The eight family priority themes

  • Staff warmth72
  • Compassion & dignity72
  • Cleanliness65
  • Activities & engagement60
  • Food quality58
  • Healthcare65
  • Management & leadership42
  • Resident happiness65
Section 02

What inspectors found

Inspected 2018-10-04

  • Is this home safe?

    Good
    The Safe domain was rated Good at the September 2018 inspection. This covers staffing levels, medicines management, infection control, and safeguarding. The published summary does not include specific staffing ratios, falls data, or detail about how the home manages risk for the 89 people who live there. The inspection is over six years old, so conditions may have changed.
    Verified by inspector
  • Is the care effective?

    Good
    The Effective domain was rated Good in September 2018. This domain covers training, care planning, access to healthcare, nutrition, and the use of evidence-based practice. Dementia and physical disabilities are listed specialisms, which means the home should have specific competencies in these areas. No detail about care plan content, GP access frequency, or dementia training specifics is available in the published summary.
    Verified by inspector
  • Is this home caring?

    Good
    The Caring domain was rated Good in September 2018. This is the domain most directly concerned with how staff treat the people who live at the home, covering dignity, respect, privacy, compassion, and whether people feel in control of their own lives. No specific inspector observations, resident quotes, or relative testimonies are included in the published summary available for this report.
    Verified by inspectorResident testimony recorded
  • Is the home responsive?

    Good
    The Responsive domain was rated Good in September 2018. This domain covers how well the home tailors its care to individual needs, including activities, engagement, end-of-life planning, and how it responds to complaints. The home has a specialism in dementia, which should mean individual engagement approaches are in place. No detail about the activity programme, complaint records, or end-of-life planning is available in the published summary.
    Verified by inspector
  • Is the home well-led?

    Requires improvement
    The Well-led domain was rated Requires Improvement at the September 2018 inspection, the only domain not to achieve a Good rating. This is the domain that covers management culture, governance, accountability, learning from incidents, and whether staff feel supported to speak up. A registered manager, Mrs Emma Marie Smith, was named at the time of inspection. The overall rating improved to Good despite this domain remaining at Requires Improvement. The inspection is over six years old.
    Verified by inspector
  • Source: CQC inspection report →

    Section 03

    What the evidence base says

    The home cares for adults of all ages with physical disabilities as well as older residents. They run a dedicated dementia unit called Memory Lane, which families have specifically praised for the quality of support. Memory Lane operates as a specialist unit within the home, where families have found staff who really understand dementia care. The team here has been particularly noted for supporting both residents and their families through end-of-life care with real compassion. All areas worth probing directly during a visit.

The DCC Verdict

Our editorial view, built from the three lenses: what families tell us, what inspectors record, and how the home sits against good dementia-care practice.

68/ 100

DCC Family Score

Stamford Bridge Beaumont scores 68 out of 100. Four out of five inspection domains were rated Good, which is a genuine improvement from the previous Requires Improvement rating, but the Well-led domain remains Requires Improvement and the inspection is now over six years old, which limits confidence in any specific detail.

Homes in Yorkshire & Humberside typically score 68–82.

The three-lens summary

Lens 01

What families tell us

Visitors describe walking into light, airy spaces where staff stop to chat and residents gather for activities that actually seem to capture their interest. The dedicated activities team keeps things varied throughout the week, and families report seeing their loved ones visibly engaged and enjoying themselves.

Lens 02

What inspectors have recorded

Staff here seem to understand that small things matter — laundry comes back the same day, requests get handled promptly, and someone's always available when needed. Families particularly value how the team maintains residents' dignity through careful personal care, keeping people clean, well-dressed, and treated with genuine respect.

Lens 03

How it sits against good practice

While the older parts of the building may need some attention, the care itself — especially in the dementia unit — seems to come from a good place.

DCC Recommendation

Worth a visit

Stamford Bridge Beaumont, on Buttercrambe Road in York, was rated Good overall at its last inspection in September 2018. That rating represented a genuine improvement from a previous Requires Improvement rating, and four of the five inspection domains, Safe, Effective, Caring, and Responsive, were each rated Good. The home is run by Barchester Healthcare Homes Limited and has 89 beds, with specialisms including dementia and physical disabilities. The main uncertainty here is significant: this inspection is over six years old. A monitoring review in July 2023 found no evidence requiring a reassessment, but that is not the same as a fresh inspection with new observations and testimony. The Well-led domain was also rated Requires Improvement in 2018, which means governance and leadership were a concern at that point. Before visiting, ask the home how long the current registered manager has been in post, whether there has been a more recent inspection or review, and what has changed in leadership since 2018. On your visit, ask to see last week's actual staffing rota and count permanent versus agency names on the night shifts.

The three questions to ask when you visit

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In Their Own Words

How Barchester – Stamford Bridge Beaumont Care Home describes itself — collected from its own website. DCC has not edited or independently verified the content in this tab.

What Barchester – Stamford Bridge Beaumont Care Home says about itself

Where dignity meets genuine warmth in York's dementia care

Stamford Bridge Beaumont – Expert Care in York

When families visit Stamford Bridge Beaumont in York, they often mention the smiles first — staff who genuinely seem pleased to see them, residents who look content and well-cared-for. This Yorkshire care home runs dedicated units for different needs, including Memory Lane for dementia care, where families have found real support during some of life's hardest moments.

Care & specialisms

Who they care for

    The home cares for adults of all ages with physical disabilities as well as older residents. They run a dedicated dementia unit called Memory Lane, which families have specifically praised for the quality of support.

    How they describe their dementia care

    Memory Lane operates as a specialist unit within the home, where families have found staff who really understand dementia care. The team here has been particularly noted for supporting both residents and their families through end-of-life care with real compassion.

    “While the older parts of the building may need some attention, the care itself — especially in the dementia unit — seems to come from a good place.”

    DCC does not edit or curate content in this tab. For independently curated information, see The Evidence and DCC Verdict.

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