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Willow Lodge Care Home

11-15 Stein Road, Emsworth PO10 8LB — 40 beds, run by Stephen Geach.

Dementia care 40 beds Registered 13.8 years

West Sussex Council pays £900 a week for a residential place here. A family paying for itself is almost always quoted more than that, for the same room.

Council, residential£900per week, 2026/27
Council, dementia£1,000residential, per week
Council, nursing£1,030before NHS FNC
What this home chargesAsk themnot published anywhere

Source: West Sussex County Council, Care Home Band Rates 2026-27 (Appendix 1). Standard band rates shown; enhanced rates apply in the Northern area and Northern Chichester, effective 6 April 2026; we last checked it on 11 August 2026. We do not print an estimate of what Willow Lodge Care Home charges a self-funding family, because no such figure has been published and we will not invent one. The council rate is the firm number to negotiate against.

How the inspectors rated it

Requires improvement

The Care Quality Commission rated Willow Lodge Care Home Requires improvement when it last published an assessment, in February 2021.

Older than mostThe national middle is 4.3 years. How we measure this.

That was 5.5 years ago. Managers move on, owners sell up, staff turn over. A rating this old describes the home as it was in 2021 — not as it is this month. Three questions worth asking on the phone: who is the manager now, how long have they been in post, and how many of the care staff have been there more than a year?
Safe — Requires improvement Effective — Good Caring — Good Responsive — Good Well-led — Requires improvement

Read the full CQC report · what these ratings mean · register retrieved 4 August 2026

What the same operator runs elsewhere

Stephen Geach runs 2 care homes for older people in England. Of the 2 carrying a published CQC rating, 1 are rated Good or Outstanding, 1 require improvement.

A pattern across an operator’s homes tells you something a single inspection cannot. It is a fair question to put to the manager: what has changed across the group since those inspections?

The paperwork, plainly

Beds registered
40
Typical size in West Sussex
32 beds
Registered with the CQC
13.8 years
Manager on the register
Bone, Aimee
Who owns it
Stephen Geach
Their own website
www.englishoakcarehomes.co.uk

Every line comes from the CQC register, not from the home. If something is wrong, tell us and we will check it against the register.

Other homes close by

Distances are straight-line from the registered address — useful for working out who could visit easily, which matters more than most things on this page.

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Nearby homes rated Good or better, inspected in the last two years

The list above is by distance alone. This one keeps only homes whose rating is both good and recent — the two things a rating needs to be worth much.

Ask them what a room costs today

Published fees go stale within months. Tell us what care is needed and we will ask Willow Lodge Care Home directly, then send you the reply. We are paid nothing if you move in, so we have no reason to push you here or anywhere else.

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Would the council pay towards this?

Whether you pay all of it, some of it or none of it turns on savings, income and whether a property would be left empty. Our calculator applies the 2026/27 means test and tells you the weekly figure. See also how council funding works and what happens when the money runs out.

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Where to get advice

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Age UK — paying for a care home · MoneyHelper · Care Quality Commission · our guides to costs and funding

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