Care Quality Commission Reports Scraper

Extract full inspection reports, ratings, provider details, and management information from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) — the independent regulator of health and social care in England. Works across all service types: dentists, care homes, GPs, hospitals, clinics, and more.

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Use Cases

• Compliance & regulatory teams monitoring CQC ratings across a portfolio of providers
• Healthcare consultants & analysts benchmarking services by region, rating, or service type
• Journalists & researchers investigating care quality trends across England
• Care comparison platforms keeping provider data fresh at scale
• Legal & due diligence teams conducting provider background checks

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How It Works

This actor navigates the CQC website and automatically:

1. Reads your CQC search results and processes each provider in the list
2. Finds the most recent inspection report for each provider
3. Extracts management and organisational details from the provider's overview page
4. Saves a combined record to your Apify dataset, ready for export or downstream automation

The start and end parameters let you control exactly which providers to process — making it easy to run in batches across large result sets.

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Sample Output

{
  "report_url": "https://www.cqc.org.uk/location/1-16546284835/reports/AP11124/overall",
  "report_type": "HTML",
  "title": "University of Bristol Dental School",
  "service_name": "University of Bristol Dental School",
  "organisation_name": "University of Bristol",
  "registered_manager": "Mr August Wouter Van Riessen",
  "nominated_individual": "Mrs Lucinda Parr",
  "content": "<header>...</header>...",
  "note": null,
  "csv_row": {
    "Name": "University of Bristol Dental School",
    "Address_1": "1 Trinity Quay",
    "Address_2": "Avon Street",
    "Town_City": "Bristol",
    "County": "",
    "Postcode": "BS2 0PT",
    "Phone_number": "01179289000",
    "Website": "https://www.bristol.ac.uk/dental",
    "Local_authority": "Bristol, City of",
    "Region": "South West",
    "Report_publication_date": "2025-03-21T10:22:57Z",
    "URL": "https://www.cqc.org.uk/location/1-16546284835",
    "Also_known_as": "",
    "Specialisms_services": "Services for everyone",
    "Service_types": "Dentist",
    "Provider_name": "University of Bristol",
    "Distance_miles_away": "0.2",
    "Relevance_score": "",
    "CQC_Provider_ID_for_office_use_only": "1-199760145",
    "CQC_Location_ID_for_office_use_only": "1-16546284835"
  }
}

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Input Configuration

{
  "start_urls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.cqc.org.uk/search/all?query=&location-query=bristol&radius=25&filters[]=services:dentist"
    }
  ],
  "start": 1,
  "end": 50
}

Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
start_urls	array	Yes	—	One or more CQC search result URLs
start	integer	No	1	Provider number to start from (inclusive)
end	integer	No	5	Provider number to stop at (inclusive)

Building Your Search URL

1. Go to cqc.org.uk/search
2. Apply your filters — service type, location, search radius, rating
3. Copy the URL from your browser and paste it as the start_urls value

The actor uses those search results as its input list automatically. You never need to paginate manually.

Useful URL Filter Values

Service Type	URL Filter
Dentist	filters[]=services:dentist
Care home	filters[]=services:care-home
GP	filters[]=services:gp
Hospital	filters[]=services:hospital
Clinic	filters[]=services:clinic

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Key Features

• Supports both HTML and PDF reports — whichever format CQC publishes for a provider, the actor extracts it
• Batch processing — process large result sets in chunks by setting start and end, making it easy to run across multiple Actor runs or schedule incremental updates
• Management data extraction — captures registered manager, nominated individual, and the full "who runs this service" breakdown
• Ready for Google Sheets, Make.com, and Zapier — output field names work directly with your tools without any transformation step

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Tips & Best Practices

Processing large result sets in batches

If your search returns 500 providers, split the work across multiple runs:

• Run 1: start: 1, end: 100
• Run 2: start: 101, end: 200
• Run 3: start: 201, end: 300

Filtering by rating in your search URL

CQC search supports rating filters. Add these to target specific quality bands:

• Outstanding: filters[]=rating:outstanding
• Good: filters[]=rating:good
• Requires improvement: filters[]=rating:requires-improvement
• Inadequate: filters[]=rating:inadequate

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Limitations

• Only the most recent inspection report per provider is extracted.
• Run times scale with the number of providers and report format (PDFs take longer than HTML reports).
• CQC search is location-based. Adjust the location and radius in your start URL to match the geographic scope you need.
• Providers with no published inspection report will still appear in the dataset with a note explaining why.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Can I scrape all providers across England?

Yes — run multiple batches with different start/end ranges. Use a broad search URL (no location filter, large radius, or use region-based queries) and step through the results in chunks of 50–100 providers per run.

Does this work for care homes, not just dentists?

Yes. The actor works for any CQC service type. Change the services: filter in your URL to care-home, gp, hospital, or any other type supported by CQC search.

What if a provider has no recent inspection?

The rest of the record — name, address, registered manager — is still saved. A note is added to explain that no inspection report was found.

Can I re-run this to get fresh data?

Yes. Each run fetches live data from CQC at the time of execution. For regular monitoring, schedule the actor on Apify's cron scheduler and set start/end to cover your target providers.

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License

This actor is intended for legitimate research, compliance monitoring, and data analysis use cases. All data is sourced from the publicly available CQC website. Users are responsible for ensuring their use complies with applicable terms of service and data protection regulations.