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Set within beautiful green-belt countryside, the home enjoys uninterrupted views across the surrounding landscape. A long private driveway leads to the original 19th-century house, which has been sympathetically extended over the past 30 years to provide comfortable accommodation for up to 50 residents.
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Care Provided by Gorsey Clough Nursing Home
Primary Care Categories
- Older Person Care
- Dementia
- Mental Health Condition
- Physical Disability
- Visual / Hearing Impairment
Length of Stay
- Permanent Care
Care Types Provided
- Nursing Care
- Dementia Residential Care
- Dementia Nursing Care
- For a maximum of 50 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
- Parkinson's Disease
- Stroke
- Palliative / End of Life Care
- COPD/Pulmonary Disease
Facilities
- Own Furniture if required
- Pet Friendly (or by arrangement)
- Close to Local shops
- Minibus or other transport
- Lift
- Wheelchair Access
- Gardens
- Bar/Café
- Television point in own room
- Residents Internet Access
Funding & Fees
Weekly Charges per Person
Please note: Our fees are guided by a face-to-face pre-admission assessment and are based on each individual’s level of need and dependency. Fees are not a flat rate; they vary to reflect the support and care required. Fees may be reviewed annually in line with inflation and/or Local Authority rate changes. Final fee arrangements will be confirmed by the Registered Manager.
We would also like to reassure you that, regardless of your category of care, our Registered Nursing Team oversee the wellbeing of all residents. This means that even if you are assessed as residential, your care will still be supported and monitored by a Registered Nurse.
The price(s) shown are provided by the care home. Contact Gorsey Clough Nursing Home for full pricing details and T&Cs.
Contact Gorsey Clough Nursing Home 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)
Support you may be entitled to
- If you chose a care home based in England, you may be eligible for NHS Funded Nursing Care (FNC), which helps cover the cost of nursing. This is worth £267.68 per week and is usually paid directly to the care home.
Good to Know
Owner
- Gorsey Clough Nursing Home Ltd
- Private Owned
Person in charge
- Craig Priestley(Registered Manager/Registered Nurse)
Local Authority / Social Services
Admission Information
- Mixed (no single-gender units)
- Ages 65+
Care Home Design/Build
- Purpose Built: No
- Last Refurbishment: 2025
- Number of floors: 2
Room Information
- Single Rooms (50)
Visiting
- There are no restrictions on visiting. The team kindly ask that visits do not take place before 10:30am to allow residents time for morning routines and care.
Parking
- On site parking
Gorsey Clough Nursing Home Reviews (65)
Gorsey Clough Nursing Home has a Review Score of 9.7 (9.675) out of 10, based on 10 reviews in the last 2 years.
Over all time Gorsey Clough Nursing Home has 65 reviews.
Gorsey Clough is a wonderful care home and I consider myself fortunate that my husband is being so well cared for. He is treated as an individual and particular care is taken with his clothes and appearance. Staff are sensitive and caring when he is resistant to help and he is shown much kindness and support. The home is beautifully decorated extremely clean and comfortable. Leadership is exemplary!
The staff are so caring, Supportive & are always pleasant when I visit, as a family the staff have also been supportive to us especially having to deal with the impact of 2 parents being cared for.
Craig is such a wonderful manager & you can tell that staff have the respect for him.
Nursing & Caring staff, are always on hand to ask questions & ring if there is an issue with regards my mum, I can not recommend the home & facilities enough.
All the staff at Gorsey Clough have looked after both my mum and dad with the utmost care, dignity, attentiveness and kindness. From the nurses, the carers, admin, management and the cleaners, all have made myself and my family feel welcome within the Gorsey community. Thank you for all you do.
My mum has been at Gorsey Clough for around 8 months now, and we've been thoroughly impressed. The staff are very caring and considerate, treating all of the residents with respect and dignity. It is obvious they really do care about the residents and their job, and go above and beyond. The needs of my mum are always met with compassion, and no task is too much for staff. Great amount of activities involved. Have never had a problem with cleanliness, very clean and tidy. Staff are always welcoming to visitors, providing good pastoral care when needed. Good to have a doctor present each week, with the option to have a hairdresser do their hair on site.
Can't fault the care my mum receives. Very caring, friendly and helpful staff from domestics to management and admin staff. The recent refurbishments have been carried out with minimal disruption to residents.
A MASSIVE THANK YOU to everyone!
My mum spent 7 months at Gorsey after an unhappy time at another care home. She was cared for amazingly. The staff are caring, patient and loving. I was so happy she was there. In August she had a stroke and after 2 days in hospital she went back to Gorsey for end of life care. The care that she and my family received was unbelievable. They were supportive, caring and made the whole dreadful experience a lot easier than it could have been. Myself and my family are so grateful to this amazing care home.
My mum has been a resident of Gorsey Clough, for over 4 years. The staff there go above and beyond to look after Mum's needs, which can change daily. The manager is very proud of his staff. Any problem is sorted out promptly. I couldn't ask for better, thank you all.
The place and care are outstanding and highly recommended for anyone looking to place a relative into long-term care.
During his last week when he was bedridden, the staff cared for him very well and our family knew that he was never alone. We stayed with him through the night and the staff came with cups of tea and toast. His final night we were home but he was not alone when he died, as one of the staff was by his side as he took his last breath.
The family visited him regularly and none of us ever heard a raised voice from the staff, we only witnessed the kindest care of our loved one.
Staff deserve medals for doing this job with such compassion.
Thank you to everyone at Gorsey Clough Nursing Home for the outstanding support and care that was provided to my mother whilst she was there. She had to be moved from another home, which fell short on so many levels. Fortunately, we had the complete opposite experience here and couldn't have asked for more. It is the people that make any business and here you have the most welcoming and friendly staff, who will always go above and beyond, to deliver a five-star service.
Due to my mother's rapidly deteriorating condition (end-stage cancer), she had to temporarily move into a nursing home, whilst suitable changes were made at her own home. The registered manager helped to make all the relevant arrangements to have Mum transported to Gorsey Clough and ensured that she had a lovely room available for her stay. The nurses, health care assistants and everyone my mum came into contact with throughout her stay were absolutely wonderful. They were; extremely caring, thoughtful, responsive and kind and nothing was too much trouble. During her stay, staff would often pop in for a chat to see how she was doing, which helped to keep her spirits up, whilst the food was always varied and lovingly prepared by the resident chef. Sadly, my mum has now passed away, but if you are in the process of trying to find a suitable place for your loved one, then you can't go wrong with Gorsey Clough.
My father passed away 5 days ago, the compassion, professionalism and hard work by all involved in his care was impeccable.
My father was a tricky customer in the early days as his particular dementia was complex and made him difficult to handle at times.
There is no 'I' in team and everyone who works there plays an important part. The cooks, cleaners (the home is spotless), laundry staff (my father’s clothes would be washed and back the same day), the care staff, nurses, office staff, entertainment staff, manager, assistant manager and agency staff (hope I’ve not forgotten anybody).
One particular member of agency staff who worked with my dad for years, treated him with the utmost respect, dignity and compassion and cared for him at times, under difficult circumstances, particularly in the early days.
The end-of-life care my dad received and the support for me was 5 star.
The manager expects high standards from his staff but also motivates them to develop their careers. He is also very responsive to the needs of relatives, my first Christmas alone he invited me and others to partake in the residents Christmas Day lunch.
There are duty boards at the entrance showing minimum and actual staffing levels and, without exception, there are more nurses and carers on duty than the minimum required. Can you imagine that being the case in a corporate-owned home? Credit to the owners who've employed an outstanding manager and backed him financially to provide an excellent caring environment.
Mum moved to Gorsey Clough in February 2022 following DTA and a long stay in Royal Bolton Hospital. It was a shock and very distressing for Mum not to be going back to her own home and it was very difficult for me to navigate what was going on as communication between Bolton Council SW, CHC and the hospital was non-existent! It took almost 3 months to get Mum assessed and decided that she needed 24-hour nursing care. Trying to view a care home during COVID was difficult and I needed to get mum close by. I had visited Gorsey and was struck by how warm and caring the Home felt and they had assured me they would contact me if a place became available thankfully after 1 week at 4 Seasons. The transition was seamless for Mum. I find all staff, office, nursing, carers and management so welcoming and caring. Always available for any questions or help. Gorsey Clough maintains the warm caring family atmosphere while being highly professional. Cannot thank them enough.
The experience my dad has received from the very first day has been absolute first class. The care is of the very highest standard, with experienced staff who exemplify professional and patience. From the moment we selected Gorsey Clough as the place for my dad to be cared for, each and every member of staff have made the overall experience so smooth and easy to deal with. It is always a difficult decision to have to make and so hard to choose between care homes on paper, but knowing what we do now, we certainly made the right choice and would make the exact same decision all over again. Always a horrible situation to be in having to place a loved one into someone else's care, but wouldn't hesitate to recommend Gorsey Clough if you have the unfortunate decision to make too.
My dad has been a resident at Gorsey Clough for nearly 2 years. The progress my dad has made within that time has been amazing, he has gone from being quite angry and frustrated after his stroke and losing his mobility and some short term memory loss, also at the beginning refusing to eat. He is now a lot calmer, less frustrated, no longer on medication for depression and eats pretty much everything put in front of him. I have a lot of praise for the manager and all the staff that look after my dad from the day we viewed the home and the knowledge that the manager had about the type of stroke my dad had and the side affects and how to deal with that was very reassuring and out of the one meeting probably gave us more information than the hospital ever did. To the every day care of my dad and how they have all got to know him and know how to deal with my dad to get him to corporate on his down days and they all know his sense of humour and have a good laugh with my dad and make him smile even on a bad day.
I would just like to say thank you to the team at Gorsey Clough for looking after my grandad. Thank you for allowing our family to arrange special visits around Birthdays and special occasions. The home has a lovely atmosphere upon arrival and the staff usually go above and beyond to make you feel welcomed as part of the Gorsey family. The parking facilities have massively improved since and the home has since started further improvements, creating a great vision of what the future holds at Gorsey. Lovely rural location with stunning bedroom window views of the farm animals. It would be nice if we could possibly add more homely individual touches to the residents' rooms if possible if health and safety allows us too as I feel this is the only small thing missing. But that's just my personal preference and it doesn't effect the rating I would give. The food looks delicious every time I visit, nice portion sizes and a good variety. Thank you for looking after him and cheering him up daily.
The activities have been fantastic - a visit to Blackpool and the events throughout the year well organised and inviting. The recent Christmas Party was thoroughly enjoyed by us all.
Our grandma is currently residing at Gorsey Clough. We cannot fault the home. She is well looked after and there are regular events to keep her and the other residents entertained. The home is always clean and tidy and nothing is too much trouble.
Regulatory Rating
Care Quality Commission (CQC) Rating
Date: 09 June 2022Outstanding
- CaringOutstanding
- EffectiveOutstanding
- ResponsiveGood
- SafeGood
- Well-ledOutstanding
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.
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Frequently Asked Questions about Gorsey Clough Nursing Home
What types of Care is Gorsey Clough Nursing Home registered for?
Older Person Care, Dementia, Mental Health Condition, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment are the registered (by the Care Quality Commission) categories of Care.
How many Rooms does Gorsey Clough Nursing Home have?
There are 50 Single Rooms.
What are the Facilities & Services at Gorsey Clough Nursing Home?
Own Furniture if required, Pet Friendly (or by arrangement), Close to Local shops, Minibus or other transport, Lift, Wheelchair Access, Gardens, Bar/Café, Television point in own room, Residents Internet Access are some of the Facilities & Services.
How far is Gorsey Clough Nursing Home to the centre of Bury?
3.0 mile(s) as the crow flies, distance by road may be significantly further.
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