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Nottingham is most notable not for its mismatch rate but for the age of inspections. The oldest CQC inspection in the full study is in Nottingham — Edenhurst Rest Home, last inspected April 2019, 85.8 months ago, predating the COVID-19 pandemic.
Nottingham has a moderate mismatch rate of 52.9% — below the study average for the largest cities. However the Nottingham study area is most notable for a different dimension of the transparency problem: the age of inspections.
The Nottingham dataset more broadly shows an above-average proportion of homes with inspections more than 36 months old. This means that while the headline mismatch rate between review scores and CQC ratings is lower than in Birmingham or London, the underlying regulatory evidence available to families is in many cases significantly out of date.
CQC rating: Requires Improvement · Last inspected: April 2019 · 85.8 months
The oldest inspection in the full study. Edenhurst Rest Home was last inspected in April 2019 — 85.8 months before the data collection date of June 2026. The home continues to carry a Requires Improvement rating from that 2019 inspection on the CQC register. For any family researching Edenhurst today, the most recent official assessment of its standards is more than seven years old. The inspection predates COVID-19, the subsequent workforce crisis, and significant changes across the care sector.
CQC rating: Requires Improvement · Critical Information Gap designation
Google score of 4.9 stars from 10 reviews alongside a Requires Improvement CQC rating. Designated Critical Information Gap under the framework — the threshold at which the gap between public reputation and regulatory standing is most extreme. Church Farm Care Home at Rusticus holds a Carehome.co.uk score of 9.6 from 80 reviews alongside a Requires Improvement rating.
In Nottingham, the key question to ask about any care home is not just what the CQC found — but when. Visit cqc.org.uk and check the inspection date alongside the rating. If a home has not been inspected in more than two years, the rating may reflect conditions as they were found years ago. Ask the home directly when it expects its next inspection and what has changed since the last one.
The full Nottingham city report contains every home in the scored dataset with its complete three-score breakdown, including full inspection age analysis, ranked by Transparency Score.