CQC Care Homes & Providers Scraper – UK Care Directory Leads

Export CQC-registered care homes, nursing homes, home care agencies, GP surgeries, dentists and clinics in England with phone number, website, address, services, specialisms and date of last CQC check. Filter by service type, region, council or postcode. Official CQC data, no key. Pay per result.

CQC Care Providers Scraper by Moxie: fast, reliable and polite, built on official/public data sources.

What can it do?

• Lead generation for suppliers to care homes: food, PPE, staffing agencies, care software, maintenance
• Recruitment and staffing agencies targeting home care and nursing providers
• Market mapping of care home groups by region and council
• Due diligence and M&A research on care providers

Data source

The official CQC care directory published by the Care Quality Commission (cqc.org.uk, updated regularly) under the Open Government Licence v3.0. The actor always picks up the latest published file. No login, no API key.

Features

• Pay only for results (pay-per-event pricing, no monthly rental)
• Incremental mode: scheduled runs return only items you haven't received before
• LLM-ready output: optional compact Markdown per item for RAG / AI agents
• Polite rate limiting with automatic retries and backoff
• Clean, flat JSON you can export as CSV, Excel, JSON or via API

Input example

{
  "serviceTypes": [
    "Residential homes",
    "Nursing homes"
  ],
  "regions": [
    "North West"
  ],
  "requirePhone": true,
  "maxItems": 20
}

Output example

{
  "id": "1-10000812939",
  "locationId": "1-10000812939",
  "url": "https://www.cqc.org.uk/location/1-10000812939",
  "name": "Charlotte House",
  "alsoKnownAs": null,
  "address": "Church Road, Bebington, Wirral",
  "postcode": "CH63 3DZ",
  "phone": "01516431271",
  "website": null,
  "serviceTypes": [
    "Nursing homes"
  ],
  "specialisms": [
    "Sensory impairments",
    "Dementia",
    "Caring for adults over 65 yrs",
    "Physical disabilities"
  ],
  "lastCheckDate": "2023-04-04",
  "providerName": "Lovett Care Limited",
  "providerId": "1-101658918",
  "localAuthority": "Wirral",
  "region": "North West",
  "directoryDate": "2026-10-28"
}

Pricing

Event	Price
Care provider location (result)	$0.003
Actor start	$0.003 per run

Example: 1,000 results ≈ $3.00 + $0.003 start fee. Apify platform usage is included in the price.

Benchmark: scrapesage/uk-cqc-care-provider-leads (11 users) sells CQC provider lead lists (Apify Store, 1 Nov 2026).

Use via API or MCP

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/devteamdrew~uk-cqc-care-providers/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"serviceTypes": ["Residential homes", "Nursing homes"], "regions": ["North West"], "requirePhone": true, "maxItems": 20}'

AI agents (Claude, Cursor, etc.) can call this actor through the Apify MCP server: add https://mcp.apify.com/?actors=devteamdrew/uk-cqc-care-providers as an MCP server.

FAQ

Which services are covered?
Everything registered with CQC in England: care homes, nursing homes, home care, supported living, GPs, dentists, clinics, hospitals and more.

Does it include CQC ratings?
Not yet: it includes the date of the latest CQC check and a link to the CQC page with the full report. Ratings are on the roadmap.

How fresh is it?
CQC republishes the directory regularly; directoryDate shows the version used.

Can I schedule it?
Yes. Use Apify Schedules together with incremental mode to receive only new items.

Something broke?
Open an issue on the actor's Issues tab; we monitor nightly and usually fix within 24 hours.

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Legal and GDPR

This actor only collects publicly available data from official or open APIs and respects their rate limits and terms of use.

Results may contain personal data (e.g. names, handles). You are responsible for having a lawful basis under GDPR/UK GDPR and similar laws to process it, and for using the data in line with the source platform's terms. Do not use it for spam or for profiling individuals.

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