8 Hainsworth Park

Located at 8 Hainsworth Park, 8 Hainsworth Park serves Hull and the surrounding area as a registered nursing home, within the Yorkshire & Humberside region. The registered provider is Tulip Mental Health and Community Care Limited, the legal entity accountable to the regulator for the quality and safety of care delivered here.

A nursing home (care home with nursing) provides everything a residential home does — 24-hour accommodation and personal care — plus registered nurses on duty at all times. That nursing presence is what allows the home to care for people with complex medical needs: PEG feeding, tracheostomy care, complex wound management, advanced Parkinson's or multiple sclerosis, and dementia with significant health complications. 8 Hainsworth Park is registered with the CQC for nursing care, and its nurses are individually registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council.

The clinical layer changes daily life less than families expect — meals, activities and routines look much like any good care home — but it changes what is possible: residents avoid repeated hospital admissions because deterioration is spotted and managed on site, and end-of-life care can be delivered without a distressing move. When a hospital discharge team says someone "needs nursing care", this is the category of home they mean.

For funding and referral purposes the location sits in the Kingston upon Hull, City of local authority area of the Yorkshire & Humberside region, in a city with 275 registered healthcare providers of all types — relevant because needs assessments, social-care budgets and many community services are organised along these boundaries.

The CQC publishes inspection reports for registered locations as they are completed; the official record for this location is linked in the registration section below and is the most reliable public account of how the service performs.

Nursing homes must register for the specific populations they serve, because staffing and clinical competencies differ sharply between, say, young adults with neurological injuries and older people with dementia. 8 Hainsworth Park is registered to care for:

Caring for children (0 - 18yrs)

A children's registration brings its own regulatory expectations: paediatric-trained staff, enhanced safeguarding arrangements aligned to children's legislation, family-centred care planning, and premises and equipment appropriate to children and young people rather than scaled-down adult services.

Caring for adults under 65 yrs

Registration for working-age adults signals a service oriented around different goals than elderly care: maintaining employment and family roles, rehabilitation and independence, and care plans built around an active life rather than primarily around frailty management.

Mental health conditions

This registration covers support for people living with mental illness — from anxiety and depression through severe and enduring conditions. Expect staff trained in mental health, risk assessment and crisis planning, and joint working with community mental health teams and, where relevant, the Mental Health Act framework.

Eating disorders

The provider is registered to care for people with eating disorders — a specialism demanding close medical monitoring, structured meal support, psychological therapy and coordinated working with specialist eating disorder teams, given the serious physical risks these conditions carry.

A practical rule when shortlisting: prefer depth over breadth. A provider registered precisely for your care group — and able to describe its training and staffing for it — usually outperforms one with a longer but shallower list of declarations. And if your needs cross two of these groups at once, make the service explain how it handles the combination; that answer predicts your experience better than any single rating.

Treat these declarations as the service's public promise — inspectors check against them, and you are entitled to ask exactly how each one shows up in staffing and daily practice.

This reflects the standard service range of a nursing home; 8 Hainsworth Park will confirm which of these are offered on site and which are arranged by referral.

24-hour nursing care

Registered nurses on every shift managing medication, wounds, catheters, PEG feeding and deteriorating conditions without hospital transfer.

Complex dementia care

Where registered, combined nursing and dementia expertise for people whose dementia coexists with significant physical health needs.

Palliative and end-of-life care

Symptom control and dignified final-months care coordinated with GPs, palliative consultants and hospice outreach teams.

Post-hospital rehabilitation

Short-term nursing placements that bridge hospital discharge and returning home, often with physiotherapy input.

Personal care

The full residential layer — washing, dressing, continence, mobility and mealtime support — delivered alongside clinical care.

Medication and clinical governance

Nurse-administered medicines including controlled drugs, with pharmacist reviews and clinical audit.

Nutrition and dysphagia management

Modified-texture diets, swallowing assessments via speech and language therapy, and enteral feeding where needed.

Activities and wellbeing

A planned programme adapted to residents' abilities — meaningful occupation is part of the CQC's responsive standard, not a luxury.

To contact 8 Hainsworth Park directly, call 07961440847 or use the enquiry route on its website (linked in the contact section above).

Admission to 8 Hainsworth Park begins with an enquiry and a pre-admission nursing assessment — a registered nurse assesses the prospective resident (at home or in hospital) to confirm the home can safely meet their clinical needs. For hospital discharges, the ward's discharge coordinator often runs this process; families can and should still visit the home first.

Funding shapes the sequence. Everyone in a nursing home with assessed nursing needs receives NHS-funded nursing care (FNC), a weekly NHS contribution paid directly to the home. Beyond that, ask for an NHS Continuing Healthcare checklist before any means test: people whose overall needs are primarily health-driven qualify for full NHS funding of the entire placement. Only after CHC is ruled out should the local-authority means test determine contributions.

When you visit, ask nursing-specific questions: how many registered nurses are on at night? What is the agency-nurse percentage? How does the home decide when to call 999 versus manage in place? Confident, specific answers distinguish a genuinely clinical service from a residential home with a nursing badge.

Opening hours are one detail the CQC register does not record, so none are shown for 8 Hainsworth Park yet — providers add them when claiming their profile. Until then, phone (07961440847) before you set off, particularly on Mondays, Fridays and around public holidays when hours most often flex.

If you have flexibility, avoid calling first thing on Monday, when demand across healthcare peaks; a Tuesday-to-Thursday mid-morning call usually gets answered quickest and gives reception the most room to help.

Whatever brings you to a nursing home, the first appointment covers similar ground — and ten minutes of preparation makes it substantially more useful.

Bring the paperwork that saves repeating yourself: a list of current medications with doses (a photo of the boxes works), any relevant hospital letters or test results, your NHS number if you know it, and glasses or hearing aids if you use them. If the appointment concerns someone you care for, bring evidence of any legal authority you hold — power of attorney documents change what staff can lawfully discuss with you.

Expect the first appointment to include identity and history checks, a discussion of what you need, and an examination or assessment appropriate to the service. Be direct about two things in particular: everything you are taking (including over-the-counter and herbal products), and what outcome you actually want — clinicians plan differently for "I want to be seen quickly" versus "I want the most thorough option".

Before you leave, make sure three questions have answers: what happens next, who does it, and when. Vague follow-up arrangements are where care most often goes adrift; a specific next step — a booked review, a named referral, a results date with a way to chase it — is the mark of a well-run service, and it is entirely reasonable to ask for it explicitly.

Nursing home fees run significantly higher than residential fees because of the clinical staffing. Every eligible resident receives the NHS-funded nursing care contribution (a flat weekly NHS payment to the home), and the remainder is means-tested exactly as for residential care — unless NHS Continuing Healthcare applies, in which case the NHS pays the full fee including accommodation, with no means test at all.

CHC is under-claimed because families do not know to ask. If the resident has unpredictable, intense or complex health needs — frequent falls with injury, aspiration risk, behaviours that challenge, unstable conditions — insist on a CHC checklist assessment and appeal a refusal if the evidence supports it. Beacon and Age UK provide free guidance; decisions are appealable and back-payments are made when appeals succeed.

You will find 8 Hainsworth Park at 8 Hainsworth Park,Hull. The HU6 8QQ postcode places it in the HU6 district of Hull, and entering the full postcode into a sat-nav or maps app will route you precisely — or use the Google Maps link for this exact location.

For public transport, enter the full postcode into a journey planner (National Rail, Traveline or your maps app) rather than searching the service name. Drivers should ask about parking at the point of booking — availability differs sharply between town-centre and residential locations, and knowing before you travel removes the most common source of appointment-day stress.

Think about journey frequency before fixating on any single provider: a one-off assessment justifies travel, but ongoing care multiplies every mile. With 275 providers of all types across Hull, most neighbourhoods — including HU6 — have credible options within a short journey.

Anyone with access requirements — mobility, sensory or communication — should mention them at booking. Registered providers are legally required to make reasonable adjustments, and doing so is routine when the service knows before you arrive.

If this location is not convenient, the nearest comparable alternative is 24 Hainsworth Park, roughly 0.0 miles away — the nearby providers section below lists more options with distances.

Experienced patients ask better questions. For a nursing home, this shortlist reliably separates strong services from average ones:

1. Who exactly will provide my care, and what is their professional registration?
2. What are the realistic timescales — first appointment, results, and treatment?
3. What will this cost in total, and what could add to that figure later?
4. What are the alternatives, including doing nothing for now?
5. How do you handle problems out of hours, and who do I contact?
6. What should I expect to feel or notice afterwards, and what would be a warning sign?
7. How will you keep my GP informed, and what gets written to my record?
8. If my needs change, how quickly can the plan change with them?

None of these are hostile questions — they are the questions well-led services answer every day without flinching, and hesitation in answering them is itself useful information.

Every provider on this site is registered with the Care Quality Commission — but registration is the floor, not the ceiling, and the public record lets you judge far more than the badge.

The CQC inspects against five questions — is the service safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led — and publishes its findings. For 8 Hainsworth Park, the registered provider is Tulip Mental Health and Community Care Limited. The official CQC record for this location carries the current registration status, ratings where awarded, and every published inspection report.

The rating scale runs Outstanding, Good, Requires Improvement, Inadequate — and context matters when reading it. Good is the expected standard, not a consolation prize; Outstanding is genuinely rare and usually reflects exceptional leadership culture rather than better equipment. A Requires Improvement rating deserves a closer look at which of the five questions dragged it down: a responsive shortfall (waiting times, complaint handling) is a different risk from a safe shortfall (medicines, staffing). Some location types are inspected without ratings at all, so an unrated service is not a warning sign in itself.

Reading a report efficiently: start with the well-led section (it predicts everything else), then safe. Look at the direction of travel across the last two inspections rather than a single snapshot, and treat "requires improvement" with a credible action plan differently from the same rating with repeated findings. If anything in a report concerns you, raising it with the service directly is both fair and revealing — well-run providers answer plainly.

Every patient of a CQC-registered service holds a set of enforceable rights, and knowing them changes how confidently you can act when something is not right.

You are entitled to informed consent — a genuine explanation of options, risks and alternatives before treatment, in language you understand, with interpreters provided where needed. You have a right of access to your own records under UK GDPR, free of charge in most cases, within a month of asking. And under the Equality Act, providers must make reasonable adjustments for disability — from step-free access to communication formats — as a legal duty, not a favour.

If care falls short, complain in stages: first to the provider itself (every registered service must operate an accessible complaints procedure and respond within a defined timescale); then, for NHS-funded care, to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman — or for privately funded care, to the Independent Sector Complaints Adjudication Service where the provider subscribes. Local authority-funded social care complaints escalate to the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman.

Two further channels matter. The CQC does not investigate individual complaints, but it wants to hear about poor care — reports feed directly into inspection planning, and you can tell it anything in confidence via its website. And if you need help making a complaint about NHS care, every area has a statutory independent advocacy service that is free to use; your council can point you to the current provider.

Hull has 275 CQC-registered healthcare providers in total, of which 17 are nursing homes — so genuine comparison is possible before you commit. The full Hull directory and the local nursing homes listing let you shortlist alongside this profile.

Among the 17 nursing homes serving Hull, clinical quality varies more than décor. Read the safe domain of the CQC report closely (medicines management and staffing are where nursing homes fail), ask for the home's nurse-to-resident ratio on night shifts, and observe a mealtime — dysphagia care done well or badly is visible in ten minutes. The best homes will answer hard questions about hospital admission rates and pressure-ulcer incidence without defensiveness.

Where is 8 Hainsworth Park located?

8 Hainsworth Park is at 8 Hainsworth Park,Hull, HU6 8QQ, in Hull (Yorkshire & Humberside region). The full postcode works in any sat-nav or journey planner.

How do I contact 8 Hainsworth Park?

Call 07961440847 during opening hours. The practice also runs a website with an enquiry route. For funding-route questions (NHS availability, fees), asking directly by phone gets the current position.

Is 8 Hainsworth Park regulated?

Yes — it is registered with the Care Quality Commission (location ID 1-19614282617) under the registered provider Tulip Mental Health and Community Care Limited. Registration is a legal requirement for delivering this type of care in England and brings ongoing inspection.

What are the nearest alternatives to 8 Hainsworth Park?

The closest comparable providers are 24 Hainsworth Park (0.0 miles), 10-12 Hainsworth Park (0.0 miles), Holy Name Community Rehabilitation Centre (0.4 miles). Each has a full profile on this site with contact details and registration information.

What is NHS-funded nursing care (FNC)?

A flat weekly contribution the NHS pays directly to the nursing home for every resident assessed as needing nursing care. It is not means-tested and reduces your invoice automatically — check it appears on the fee breakdown.

Who qualifies for NHS Continuing Healthcare?

People whose overall care needs are primarily health-driven — assessed across domains like mobility, medication, cognition and behaviour. If eligible, the NHS funds the entire placement with no means test. Always request the checklist assessment before agreeing a self-funded contract.

Can a nursing home refuse admission?

Yes — homes may only admit people whose needs they can safely meet within their registration and staffing. A refusal after assessment is a safety judgement, and it is better made honestly at admission than discovered in a crisis later.

Does 8 Hainsworth Park treat NHS or private patients?

The public register does not record funding routes, and many providers serve both. Phone the service for the current position — NHS availability in particular changes as capacity fills and reopens, so today's answer beats anything a directory can cache.

Where does the information on this page come from?

Core details — name, address, registration, provider and specialisms — come from the Care Quality Commission register (Open Government Licence v3.0) and are refreshed monthly. Guidance sections reflect how services of this type work across the UK. Always confirm time-sensitive details such as opening hours directly with the provider.