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My husband receives excellent care. Staff are caring, professional and kindLinda B(Wife of Resident/Service User)



My husband receives excellent care. Staff are caring, professional and kindLinda B(Wife of Resident/Service User)



Conveniently situated in Islington, North London, Highbury New Park delivers high quality care and support for older people. They also run a day club designed for older people in the local area.
Residents can enjoy bright and spacious bedrooms, complete with an ensuites, as well as lovely living spaces and additional amenities, including a hair and beauty salon. Outside there is a lovely garden where green fingered residents can enjoy some...
Care Provided by Highbury New Park
Primary Care Categories
- Older Person Care
- Dementia
- Learning Disability / Autism
- Mental Health Condition
- Physical Disability
Length of Stay
- Permanent Care
Care Types Provided
- Residential Care
- Nursing Care
- Dementia Residential Care
- For a maximum of 53 Service Users
Dementia Care TypesMild Dementia
Someone living with our definition of "mild dementia" might experience some or all of the following:
- Memory problems such as misplacing items and not be able to recall recent events (however, in some forms of dementia a person's memory may be unchanged)
- Difficulties thinking through problems and planning, making decisions
- Language and communication issues such as finding it difficult to recall the appropriate word in a conversation or following a conversation
- Poor orientation, getting lost in areas previously familiar to them
- Difficulty judging distances (more falls than usual)
- Changes in their normal mood including anxiety and depression
- In certain types of dementia, personality and behaviour changes may be present alongside or instead of issues with memory or concentration.
Moderate Dementia
Someone living with our definition of "moderate dementia" might experience some or all of the following:
- Worsened memory problems. Not always recognising own family members and friends. Repeating the same questions over and over again
- Worsened language and communication issues, forgetting what they are saying mid-sentence. Not being able to understand what someone else is saying
- More frequent confusion, e.g. about the time of day or where they are, including their own home
- Apathy, depression and anxiety
- Believing things that aren't true (paranoia)
- Frequent hallucinations
- Lack of emotional control, quick to anger, fearfulness, sadness
- Loss of inhibition
- Difficulties sleeping or waking during the night and behaving as though it is daytime - loss of circadian rhythm.
Advanced Dementia
Someone living with our definition of "severe dementia" might experience some or all of the following:
- Severe memory problems. Not recognising family members and friends. Not being able to recall their own name
- Severe language and communication issues, not being able to understand what someone else is saying
- Severe confusion, e.g. about the time of day or where they are, including their own home
- Apathy, depression and anxiety
- Believing things that aren't true (paranoia)
- Frequent hallucinations
- Lack of emotional control, quick to anger, fearfulness, sadness
- Loss of inhibition
- Difficulties sleeping or waking during the night and behaving as though it is daytime - loss of circadian rhythm.
Verbally or physically aggressive behaviour
If your loved one displays this type of behaviour you may need a care home that has specially trained staff. Verbal/physical aggression is often defined:
- Consistent shouting and screaming
- Verbal abuse
- Physical abuse
How we define Dementia Care Types
Mild Dementia
Someone living with our definition of "mild dementia" might experience some or all of the following:
- Memory problems such as misplacing items and not be able to recall recent events (however, in some forms of dementia a person's memory may be unchanged)
- Difficulties thinking through problems and planning, making decisions
- Language and communication issues such as finding it difficult to recall the appropriate word in a conversation or following a conversation
- Poor orientation, getting lost in areas previously familiar to them
- Difficulty judging distances (more falls than usual)
- Changes in their normal mood including anxiety and depression
- In certain types of dementia, personality and behaviour changes may be present alongside or instead of issues with memory or concentration.
Moderate Dementia
Someone living with our definition of "moderate dementia" might experience some or all of the following:
- Worsened memory problems. Not always recognising own family members and friends. Repeating the same questions over and over again
- Worsened language and communication issues, forgetting what they are saying mid-sentence. Not being able to understand what someone else is saying
- More frequent confusion, e.g. about the time of day or where they are, including their own home
- Apathy, depression and anxiety
- Believing things that aren't true (paranoia)
- Frequent hallucinations
- Lack of emotional control, quick to anger, fearfulness, sadness
- Loss of inhibition
- Difficulties sleeping or waking during the night and behaving as though it is daytime - loss of circadian rhythm.
Advanced Dementia
Someone living with our definition of "severe dementia" might experience some or all of the following:
- Severe memory problems. Not recognising family members and friends. Not being able to recall their own name
- Severe language and communication issues, not being able to understand what someone else is saying
- Severe confusion, e.g. about the time of day or where they are, including their own home
- Apathy, depression and anxiety
- Believing things that aren't true (paranoia)
- Frequent hallucinations
- Lack of emotional control, quick to anger, fearfulness, sadness
- Loss of inhibition
- Difficulties sleeping or waking during the night and behaving as though it is daytime - loss of circadian rhythm.
Verbally or physically aggressive behaviour
If your loved one displays this type of behaviour you may need a care home that has specially trained staff. Verbal/physical aggression is often defined:
- Consistent shouting and screaming
- Verbal abuse
- Physical abuse
How we define Dementia Care Types
- Mild Dementia
- Moderate Dementia
- Advanced/Complex Dementia
Other Care Provided
- Palliative / End of Life Care
- Day Care
Facilities
- Own Furniture if required
- Pet Friendly (or by arrangement)
- Close to Local shops
- Near Public Transport
- Minibus or other transport
- Lift
- Wheelchair Access
- Gardens
- Phone Point in own room
- Television point in own room
Funding & Fees
Contact Highbury New Park to confirm what's included and get a personalised quote:
Funding Types Accepted
- Self-Funding (Private)
- Local Authority with Top-up
- Local Authority
- NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC)
Good to Know
Group / Owner
- Care UK
- Private Owned
Person in charge
- Lia Smochina(Home Manager)
Local Authority / Social Services
Admission Information
- Ages 55+
Care Home Design/Build
- Purpose Built: Yes
Room Information
- Single Rooms (53)
- Single Rooms with ensuite Wet Room (53)
Highbury New Park Reviews (55)
Highbury New Park has a Review Score of 9.9 (9.894) out of 10, based on 19 reviews in the last 2 years.
Over all time Highbury New Park has 55 reviews.
It was my first time coming to the care home and I was impressed. It is welcoming and friendly. Staff are kind and smiley. The care home has a warm environment and homely atmosphere. The staff take great pride in providing high quality care.
Excellent care and attention is always provided and all staff are very attentive. My aunts are very happy at Highbury new park and have never raised any issues or concerns. They are very well settled
I cannot rate this care home high enough. The care they provide is the best I've ever seen. The staff, cleanliness, activities for residents, food and just the most wonderful atmosphere every time I visit. You can see how much the staff love their job as they are always happy and give residents first class care. Absolutely wonderful care home.
My husband receives excellent care. Staff are caring, professional and kind. They are all very supportive and friendly both to my husband and to me. Over the Christmas period I was able to spend quality time with my husband and his sons, partners and grandchildren were able to enjoy time with him too.
My wife was admitted to Highbury New Park Care Home with progressively deteriorating dementia some 18 months ago, and this has since deteriorated further. All the staff have been really kind to both my wife and me, and I feel many of them have developed a real affection for my wife, getting to know her likes, and how to comunicate with her. I also notice how kind the staff are to other residents, spending additional time with anyone who might be having a difficult day. From the beggining I have been particularly impressed by the good relations that exist between all the members of staff at all levels with a happy working environment. My wife is now receiving much better care than I could provide when she lived at home, leaving me able to have a more relaxed and loving relationship with her. Her room is clean and light, with appropriate measures to mange her risk of falling out of bed, and the walls are decorated with her own pictures. I feel my wife could not be in a better place.
i have total peace of mind that dad is in a really good place, i can't fault anything about Highbury New Park, the manager and staff are brilliant. they even arrange meetings for the family members to meet staff including head chef and the assigned gp's on a regular basis, all to get feed back to improve Highbury.
Hi, my mother has been a resident for over 6 months, I couldn't be happier with her care, HNP is a vibrant, clean, friendly and warm home and you will be happy to have your loved one stay. Staff even come in on days off to help or see a resident they are fond of. Thank you Lia and all your team.
my husband has been this care home since May 2025, the care and service he has received has been phenomenal. The staff treat him like family and always have time for him. They are aware of our visiting patterns and have him ready for us when we get there.
Every member of staff is incredibly polite and caring. The room is clean and welcoming, and my mother is very well looked after. We feel very reassured knowing she is in good hands. It gives our family great peace of mind.
My father was a resident at Highbury New Park for two years until his death in May.
The care provided by the home was of the highest standard, including palliative care in his final two months. There is also excellent communication with the local GP practice.
As a family, we have always felt fortunate that we found a place for him at HNP. The management team are very proactive and professional, and the nurses and carers frequently went above and beyond when taking care of my father.
The staff were very approachable and responded quickly to any questions that we had regarding his care.
Added to this, the range of entertainment and regular one-to-one conversations with residents, means that they are given individual attention. There is also an app which provides details and photos of each person's activities.
My mum has been living at Highbury New Park for nearly a year now and I want to say how happy I am with the decision we made as a family to move mum to this home. We honestly have no regrets. It is the staff team that make all the difference. They are absolutely amazing and I am forever grateful to them. They are attentive and genuinely caring and they have taken time to get to know mum so well, her routines, how she likes to things to be done, including bath time and meal times, helping her choose her clothes for the day and many more decisions throughout the day. My mum is very happy with her new home - she tells me the staff look after like she is a baby ! I visit regularly and see that mum has made friends with the staff and other residents so when I leave I know she is good hands. Thank you to all the Team - you are all very special people.
The home itself is very well appointed and equipped, all the rooms are ensuite, and it is always immaculately clean.
There is a wonderful loving and homely atmosphere, making it a pleasure to visit, and reassuring me that my husband is receiving the best of care.
Thank you very much for taking the time to leave us feedback about your experience.We set a high standard for ourselves, so we are very pleased to hear that your experience with us has been a positive one.Many thanks, the Care UK team.
Myself and my family love the relationships my Nan has with the staff especially staff on her floor. All the staff know the residents even if they are not on her floor.
Always find staff and carers, very helpful, supportive and ready to answer any questions I may have, caring towards all residents and relatives. Make you very welcome and happy that you get involved when visiting.
Kudos, to you Care UK. Keep up the nice work.
Thank you very much for taking the time to leave us feedback about your experience. We set a high standard for ourselves, so we are very pleased to hear that your experience with us has been a positive one.
I am very happy, I love all the staff and the residents are taken care of wonderfully. We are all treated as family. We are always invited to The events at Highbury New Park, and we enjoy attending to be with our loved ones. We make friends with other relatives and have weekly coffee mornings where we catch up with staff and other relatives. The staff always contact me to tell me how he is, and when I leave I know he is safe and happy and well cared for.
It's very reassuring to our family that my father's more complex care needs are provided for. And being able to visit him at any time and know that I will be warmly welcomed is a huge comfort. My conversations with staff and management are professional yet friendly; they understand the difficulties that families face when someone moves into a care home and support us through the process too.
I love all the carers on my mum's floor, they are very genuine, they are so good with and to the residents, and they know all their needs, what they like to eat, and what they like to do. It's spotless in my mum's room and my mum always looks clean and tidy always. My mum loves it there and seems very happy (Thank God ) they do so much there and everyone always has a smile, I am very grateful my mum is in this particular home.
A massive thank you to all the staff.
It all works so well, air of order on walking in, of organisation too. Clean, tidy. Staff are patient and calm, respectful of residents and their needs. It instantly felt and still feels, like the right place.
My husband has been in Highbury New Park since May. Since then, he has settled in well. He has been encouraged to progress from wheelchair to walking frame, which has improved his general health and allowed him greater independence. He spent one night in hospital for planned surgery, which was well organised, with minimum stress. Residents here are treated as individuals, with warmth care and affection. My husband enjoys particularly his room, which is clean, spacious and well appointed, the garden where he feels relaxed, and the fact that the common room is not overcrowded. He looks forward to his meals. It has made a big difference to us as a family to have found such a pleasant, calm and welcoming place and to know that we can be assured he will be cared for with both kindness and efficiency.
Regulatory Rating
Care Quality Commission (CQC) Rating
Date: 28 December 2019Good
- CaringGood
- EffectiveGood
- ResponsiveGood
- SafeGood
- Well-ledGood
Inspection ratings
We rate most services according to how safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led they are, using four levels:
- Outstanding - The service is performing exceptionally well.
- Good - The service is performing well and meeting our expectations.
- Requires Improvement - The service isn't performing as well as it should and we have told the service how it must improve.
- Inadequate - The service is performing badly and we've taken action against the person or organisation that runs it.
- Not rated - we have not yet rated this area of the service, this is normally because the assessments we have carried out have been focused on other key questions.
Bed Vacancies
Please contact us for latest vacancies.
News (43) & Events (0)
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Meet the Team (1)

I started my career with Care UK over 13 years ago, in 2009 as a General Nurse. Over the years I have worked my way through various positions, then became Home Manager here at Highbury New Park in 2016.
There’s a lovely welcoming family atmosphere here, and always a new challenge to solve. When time allows, I enjoy chatting to the residents and learning more about their lives.
Frequently Asked Questions about Highbury New Park
What types of Care is Highbury New Park registered for?
Older Person Care, Dementia, Learning Disability / Autism, Mental Health Condition, Physical Disability are the registered (by the Care Quality Commission) categories of Care.
How many Rooms does Highbury New Park have?
There are 53 Single Rooms.
What are the Facilities & Services at Highbury New Park?
Own Furniture if required, Pet Friendly (or by arrangement), Close to Local shops, Near Public Transport, Minibus or other transport, Lift, Wheelchair Access, Gardens, Phone Point in own room, Television point in own room are some of the Facilities & Services.
How far is Highbury New Park to the centre of London?
4.4 mile(s) as the crow flies, distance by road may be significantly further.
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