Who runs this site
Solar Panels For Nursing Homes is an independent information site operated by SEO Dons Ltd (Company No. 16766013), registered at 71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9JQ. It focuses on one thing: solar for CQC-registered nursing homes across the UK, from single independent homes to national group portfolios. We do not install solar or endorse an installer, and any proposal should be modelled from your own half-hourly meter data rather than a rule of thumb per bed.
Why nursing homes specifically
A nursing home is a clinical building, not a residential one, and that changes the whole solar case. CQC registration for the regulated activity of nursing care means a Registered Nurse on shift twenty-four hours a day and a building full of always-on clinical equipment: nurse-call systems, ceiling-track hoists, electric profiling beds, pressure-relief mattresses, oxygen concentrators and medication fridges. That continuous clinical baseload is why nursing homes can model a higher and flatter solar self-consumption, an indicative 50-65% across the year in a worked example, than the indicative 40-60% of a hot-water-and-laundry-led residential care home (confirm it against meter data). This site is built around that difference, because a generalist installer treating a nursing home like any other roof will size it wrong and miss the resilience needs that matter to medically-dependent residents.
What a sound process looks like
This site is independent of any single panel or inverter manufacturer, so a sound specification follows your roof, your load and your budget rather than a supplier target. A sound process is survey-led and honest: a structural and asbestos survey on every feasibility, a design and costed proposal modelled from twelve months of meter data, the G99 grid-connection application handled by the installer, and an install phased around drug rounds, clinical handovers and mealtimes with infection-control access agreed with your clinical lead in advance. Rooftop work stays above the clinical floor, so residents continue their care normally. Where resilience matters, specify lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery backup for the critical circuits, nurse-call, medication and vaccine fridges, oxygen concentrators and emergency lighting, sited externally and reflected in your PEEPs and fire risk assessment. A sound proposal says plainly if your roof does not suit solar, rather than selling a system that underperforms.
Credentials to check in an installer
When choosing an installer, ask which certifications it holds and check each against the issuing body rather than taking it on trust. For commercial installation, ask whether it is MCS-certified; for access to resident and clinical areas, ask whether it uses DBS-checked staff; and ask what warranty backs the workmanship.
Documentation for your CQC file
This site is written for registered managers, owners and group finance directors, who need particular paperwork from a solar project. Your registration for the regulated activity of nursing care is unaffected by a rooftop PV install, and solar supports the Well-led key question under the 2023 Single Assessment Framework, which references environmental sustainability and responsible use of resources. The works and safety measures should be documented for your inspection file, and group operators should ask the installer for per-site generation data for SECR Scope 2 reporting.
Straight about the numbers
We do not publish invented install counts, star ratings or review totals, because a claim you cannot verify is worth nothing to a clinical buyer making a capital decision. What this site does instead is explain how a payback is modelled from your own consumption and be candid about which funding routes apply to a private nursing home and which do not. If you have a question, send an enquiry and we reply by email.