CQC Register Changes: new registrations, closures and rating changes for UK care services

Get a clean, structured feed of what changed on the Care Quality Commission (CQC) register in any date window: new care services registering, services deregistering (closing or changing provider), newly published inspection reports, and rating downgrades and upgrades. It covers every CQC-regulated location in England, including care homes, homecare agencies, GP practices, dentists, hospitals and clinics.

Data comes directly from the official CQC Syndication API. No scraping, no login, no API key needed on your side.

Who uses this

• Care compliance consultants and trainers: find services that were just downgraded to Requires improvement or Inadequate.
• Care recruitment agencies and staffing suppliers: find newly registered homecare agencies and care homes.
• Care software, insurance, finance and property businesses: trigger CRM workflows when a provider opens, closes or changes rating.
• Analysts, journalists and researchers: track openings, closures and rating movements by region or local authority.
• AI agents: ask "which care homes in Manchester were rated Inadequate this month?" and get structured JSON.

Event types

eventType	Meaning
new_registration	Location's CQC registration date falls in your window
deregistration	Location deregistered in your window
rating_downgrade	New report in your window with a lower overall rating than the previous one
rating_upgrade	New report in your window with a higher overall rating
new_report	New report in your window with the same or no previous overall rating

Input

• lookbackDays (default 7) or dateFrom / dateTo (YYYY-MM-DD)
• eventTypes, serviceTypeContains (e.g. Homecare, Care home), regions, localAuthorities, careHomesOnly
• maxResults: hard cap on events (and on cost)

Example: all homecare downgrades in London in the last 30 days

{ "lookbackDays": 30, "eventTypes": ["rating_downgrade"], "serviceTypeContains": ["Homecare"], "regions": ["London"] }

Output (one row per event)

Every event: eventType, eventDate, locationId, locationName, providerId, providerName, overallRating, registrationStatus, registrationDate, deregistrationDate, serviceTypes, regulatedActivities, careHome, numberOfBeds, address, postcode, localAuthority, region, phone, website, cqcUrl, source, detectedAt.

Report events only (rating_downgrade, rating_upgrade, new_report) also include: newRating, previousOverallRating, previousRatingDate, serviceGroup.

Pricing

Pay per change event: you pay only for change events returned that match your filters. There is no start fee and no platform usage charge. Use maxResults or your run's maximum charge to cap spend. Filtering (region, service type, event type) happens before charging.

Scheduling

Run weekly with lookbackDays: 7 (or daily with lookbackDays: 1) using Apify Schedules, and send results to Google Sheets, Slack, a webhook, Make or Zapier via Apify integrations.

Notes and limits

• CQC updates its data daily. The event date is taken from CQC's own registration, deregistration and report dates.
• A rating change is detected by comparing the current overall rating with the previous rated report on the same location.
• Changes of provider: when a service changes owner, CQC usually creates a new location ID. This shows up as a deregistration of the old location and a new_registration of the new one at the same address (in September 2026 roughly a quarter of social-care "new registrations" were ownership changes). Compare postcode and locationName if you need genuinely new services only.
• Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Care Quality Commission. This Actor is independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by CQC.
• Contact details are only those CQC publishes for the location (main phone and website). No personal data about individuals is collected.