CQC care directory & inspection ratings
Published by Care Quality Commission · Official source
Update schedule
- The overall rating comes from CQC's monthly register file and the CQC Syndication API, whichever is newer; the domain, service-level and report-link detail is polled weekly from the CQC Syndication API and changes as inspections publish.
Level of detail
- Individual location (each hospital building is registered separately)
What we show
- Latest overall rating: Outstanding, Good, Requires improvement, or Inadequate
- The five key-question ratings (safe, effective, caring, responsive, well-led), from the CQC Syndication API
- Rating publication date and last inspection date
- A link to the location's full CQC report and inspection history on cqc.org.uk
- Per-service ratings (e.g. surgery, maternity, critical care, outpatients) for locations CQC rates by service rather than with one overall — each with its own rating and, where published, its own key-question breakdown
- Location address, contact details and inspection category
Caveats
- Ratings can be several years old — always check the publication date shown.
- Some locations are not yet rated ('Not yet rated').
- The five key-question ratings are shown only where the CQC rates the location as a whole. Large multi-service NHS hospitals are often rated per service (e.g. maternity, critical care) rather than with a single location-wide rating, so the five-question breakdown may not appear for them.
- Per-service ratings are never combined or averaged into a location-wide overall — CQC did not publish one for these locations, so we don't invent one. Service names are CQC's own; a service CQC has since stopped rating separately is removed from the list on the next sync, not left stale.
- Sourced from the CQC Syndication API (api.service.cqc.org.uk) and CQC's monthly register file. For the overall rating we show whichever of the two carries the newer publication date. Figures can still lag cqc.org.uk briefly after a rating changes, and CQC's website can occasionally show a different headline rating than its API does.
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