CQC Care Homes & Providers Search (Ratings, Beds, Contacts)

Search the Care Quality Commission register of every care service in England (about 57,000 locations): care homes, nursing homes, home care agencies, supported living, GP surgeries, dentists, hospitals, clinics and more. You get one flat table with each location's latest CQC rating, the five key question ratings (safe, effective, caring, responsive, well-led), care home beds, phone, website, provider, brand, specialisms, registration date and map coordinates.

The actor always reads the newest care directory files CQC publishes, so you never get a stale copy, and you don't need a CQC API key.

What it's for

• Care-sector suppliers: lead lists of care homes by area, size, specialism or rating, for example nursing homes with 40+ beds in the North West that care for people with dementia. Commercial care home lists sell for around £2,500 a year.
• Recruiters and staffing agencies: every home care agency or care home near a postcode, with phone and website.
• Investors and operators: compare a group's homes by rating, find homes rated Requires improvement or Inadequate, or spot new registrations in an area.
• Families, advisers and placement teams: care homes near a postcode, nearest first, with their latest ratings.
• Researchers and journalists: ratings by region, council, provider or type of service.

Input

Field	What it does
nameContains	Part of the location's name.
locationIds	Look up specific CQC location IDs, e.g. 1-10000302982.
postcode + radiusMiles	Locations within this many miles (default 5) of a postcode or postcode district (M20), nearest first.
localAuthorities	Council names, e.g. Manchester, Kent, Tower Hamlets.
regions	The nine English regions.
categories	CQC's main category for the location: Residential social care (care homes), Community based adult social care services (home care, supported living), GP Practices, Dentists, Acute hospital - NHS non-specialist and so on.
serviceTypes	Any of CQC's registered service types: Care home service with nursing, Care home service without nursing, Domiciliary care service (home care), Supported living service, Dental service, Doctors consultation service...
specialisms	Who they care for: Older People, Dementia, Learning disabilities or autistic spectrum disorder, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Younger Adults, Children 0-18 years...
overallRatings	Outstanding, Good, Requires improvement, Inadequate or Not rated.
providerName	Part of the provider or brand name, e.g. Barchester.
minBeds	Care homes with at least this many beds.
ratedSince	Latest overall rating published on or after this date.
registeredSince	Registered with CQC on or after this date, for new services.
includeKeyQuestionRatings	Safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led ratings. On by default; turn off for a quicker run.
includeRegisteredManager	Adds the registered manager's name. Off by default (see Good to know).
maxResults	Stop after this many (default 1,000).

Care homes in Manchester:

{
    "localAuthorities": ["Manchester"],
    "serviceTypes": ["Care home service with nursing", "Care home service without nursing"]
}

Nursing homes with 40+ beds caring for people with dementia, rated Requires improvement or Inadequate, in the North West:

{
    "regions": ["North West"],
    "serviceTypes": ["Care home service with nursing"],
    "specialisms": ["Dementia"],
    "minBeds": 40,
    "overallRatings": ["Requires improvement", "Inadequate"]
}

Home care agencies within 3 miles of a postcode, nearest first:

{
    "postcode": "M20 2LR",
    "radiusMiles": 3,
    "serviceTypes": ["Domiciliary care service"]
}

Output

{
    "locationId": "1-10758997851",
    "name": "Lightbowne Hall",
    "providerId": "1-102642895",
    "providerName": "Anchor Hanover Group",
    "brand": "Anchor",
    "category": "Residential social care",
    "sector": "Social Care Org",
    "careHome": true,
    "serviceTypes": "Care home service without nursing",
    "specialisms": "Dementia; Older People; Younger Adults",
    "regulatedActivities": "Accommodation for persons who require nursing or personal care",
    "address": "262 Lightbowne Road, Moston",
    "town": "Manchester",
    "county": "Greater Manchester",
    "postcode": "M40 5HQ",
    "localAuthority": "Manchester",
    "region": "North West",
    "phone": "01616833170",
    "website": null,
    "beds": 52,
    "latitude": 53.511193,
    "longitude": -2.188509,
    "distanceMiles": null,
    "overallRating": "Good",
    "safe": "Good",
    "effective": "Good",
    "caring": "Good",
    "responsive": "Good",
    "wellLed": "Good",
    "ratingPublished": "2023-04-13",
    "ratingInherited": false,
    "serviceRatings": null,
    "registrationDate": "2021-05-06",
    "dormant": false,
    "dualRegistered": false,
    "odsCode": "VNJ9H",
    "providerCompanyNumber": "RS007843",
    "providerCharityNumber": null,
    "providerOwnershipType": "Organisation",
    "providerWebsite": "https://www.anchor.org.uk",
    "providerPhone": "01274757000",
    "cqcUrl": "https://www.cqc.org.uk/location/1-10758997851",
    "dataAsAt": "2026-10-01",
    "source": "Care Quality Commission care directory, Open Government Licence v3.0"
}

distanceMiles is filled in when you search by postcode. Lists such as serviceTypes and specialisms are joined with ; so they fit in one spreadsheet cell.

Pricing

$0.003 per location returned, plus $0.005 per run. 1,000 locations cost $3.005.

Good to know

• Not rated. overallRating is empty (or "Not applicable") for services CQC hasn't rated, including new services and dentists, which CQC doesn't rate. Under CQC's newer assessment approach, locations offering more than one kind of service (often home care plus supported living, or a GP surgery plus out-of-hours) show "Not rated" as a whole; their ratings per service are in serviceRatings, e.g. Homecare: Good; Supported Living: Requires improvement. The "Not rated" filter covers all of these.
• Key question ratings come from CQC's separate ratings file and are the latest rating for each question, which may be from an older inspection than the overall rating.
• Dual registrations. Where two providers are both registered for the same care home, CQC lists it twice with different location IDs; dualRegistered is true on both. Count only one when you're adding up beds.
• Registered managers are named people, so their names are left out unless you turn on includeRegisteredManager. Personal data isn't covered by the Open Government Licence; you need your own lawful basis under UK GDPR to use it. No email addresses are published by CQC.
• Websites are as CQC holds them, with https:// added where CQC left it off.
• Update frequency. CQC publishes the care directory files monthly; dataAsAt shows which one you got. CQC says its move to a new system is delaying some updates, such as cancelled registrations.
• England only. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have their own regulators.
• A run takes about a minute, mostly downloading and reading CQC's files, however few results you ask for.

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Data source and licence

The "Care directory with filters" and "Care directory with ratings" files from CQC's Using CQC data page. Contains CQC data © Care Quality Commission, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. CQC asks anyone who reuses its data to say so on their site or service, for example "Ratings and care service information from the Care Quality Commission".

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