Search the CQC Care Register — UK Care Provider Data

Search and filter the full Care Quality Commission (CQC) register of regulated care providers in England. Find care homes, GP surgeries, dental practices, home care agencies and hospitals by location, rating, service type or provider name — all in one structured API call.

Data comes directly from the CQC's official open-data publication, updated monthly, under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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What you get

Each result is a CQC-registered location with:

• Identity: CQC Location ID, name, registration date
• Rating: Latest overall CQC rating (Outstanding / Good / Requires improvement / Inadequate), publication date
• Service classification: Primary inspection category, service types (e.g. "Care home service with nursing"), service user bands (e.g. "Dementia", "Older People")
• Location: Full address, postcode, local authority, region, latitude/longitude
• Contact: Phone number, website
• Provider details: Provider name, ownership type, Companies House number, charity number, nominated individual
• Brand chain: Brand ID and name (identifies Bupa, HC-One, Anchor and other multi-site operators)
• CQC profile link: Direct URL to the location's CQC page

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Two operating modes

searchLocations (default)

Filter the full register using any combination of:

Parameter	Description
nameQuery	Partial location name match (case-insensitive)
localAuthority	Local authority name (partial match) — e.g. Manchester, Leeds
region	CQC region (partial match) — e.g. North West, London
postcode	Postcode prefix — e.g. M1, LS1, SW1A
overallRating	Exact match: Outstanding, Good, Requires improvement, Inadequate
primaryCategory	Inspection category partial match — e.g. nursing, dental, GP
careHomeOnly	true to return only care home locations
maxResults	Cap on results (default: 1000; use 0 for all matching)

All filters are optional and combinable. Omitting all filters returns all 56,000+ active locations up to your maxResults limit.

lookupProviders

Fetch all locations registered to one or more CQC Provider IDs:

Parameter	Description
providerIds	Array of CQC Provider IDs (e.g. ["1-102642895"])
maxResults	Cap on results; use 0 for unlimited

Use this mode to pull a complete location portfolio for a specific operator — for competitive analysis, acquisition targeting, or tracking a group's CQC performance across all their sites.

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Output example

{
  "locationId": "1-10758997851",
  "locationName": "Lightbowne Hall",
  "careHome": true,
  "careHomeBeds": 52,
  "typeSector": "Social Care Org",
  "primaryInspectionCategory": "Residential social care",
  "overallRating": "Good",
  "ratingPublicationDate": "2023-04-12",
  "registrationDate": "2021-05-05",
  "street": "262 Lightbowne Road",
  "city": "Manchester",
  "county": "Greater Manchester",
  "postcode": "M40 5HQ",
  "localAuthority": "Manchester",
  "region": "North West",
  "latitude": 53.511193,
  "longitude": -2.188509,
  "phone": "01616833170",
  "website": null,
  "serviceTypes": ["Care home service without nursing"],
  "serviceUserBands": ["Dementia", "Older People", "Younger Adults"],
  "brandId": "BD223",
  "brandName": "BRAND Anchor",
  "providerId": "1-102642895",
  "providerName": "Anchor Hanover Group",
  "providerOwnershipType": "Organisation",
  "providerCompaniesHouseNumber": "RS007843",
  "providerCharityNumber": null,
  "nominatedIndividual": "Ryan, Daniel",
  "cqcUrl": "https://www.cqc.org.uk/location/1-10758997851",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-28T10:26:00.218Z"
}

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Pricing

Event	Price	Notes
Actor start	$1.00	Covers ODS file download (~23 MB) and parse
Per location	$0.05	Per record written to the dataset

Most searches return a few hundred to a few thousand results. A typical filtered search (e.g. care homes in one region) costs $1–$5 total.

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B2B use cases

Care sector SaaS products
Build competitor intelligence or market sizing features into your care management platform. Find all care homes in a postcode area, their bed counts, ratings and operator names — structured and ready to import.

M&A and acquisition research
Use lookupProviders mode to pull every location owned by a specific provider group. Instantly see their full portfolio, ratings spread, and geographic footprint — data that takes hours to gather manually from the CQC website.

Compliance and due diligence
Insurers, lenders and commissioners verify CQC registration and rating before engaging a care provider. This actor gives you a structured API alternative to manual CQC website searches.

Care home procurement and referrals
Discharge coordinators, social workers and NHS commissioners matching patients to appropriate care settings need to search providers by location, service type and bed availability. Filter by postcode + service user band + rating in a single call.

Sales intelligence for care sector suppliers
If you sell into care homes (staffing, laundry, food, technology), this actor builds your prospect list filtered by location, size and rating band. 52k+ sites with phone numbers, postcodes and operator names.

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Data source and freshness

This actor uses the CQC's official HSCA Active Locations open-data file, published monthly at cqc.org.uk/about-us/transparency/using-cqc-data under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

The file is discovered dynamically on each run — you always get the latest published version without needing to update the actor. The dataset covers approximately 56,000 active regulated locations.

Attribution: Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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See also

FCA Register Scraper — Extract UK FCA-regulated firm profiles: authorisation status, permissions, addresses, and approved individuals. Free API key, no proxy needed.

Ofsted School Register Scraper — Search 22,000+ UK state-funded schools with Ofsted inspection grades. Filter by local authority, region, or postcode.