# CQC Care Homes & Health Services Directory (England) (`tapedawn/cqc-care-directory`) Actor

Every care home, home care agency, GP, dentist, and clinic regulated by CQC in England, with overall and key question ratings, care home beds, services, provider details, and coordinates. Filter by rating, service type, region, or beds.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/tapedawn/cqc-care-directory.md
- **Developed by:** [Ed Tan](https://apify.com/tapedawn) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Business
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$3.00 / 1,000 care location records

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## CQC Care Homes & Health Services Directory (England)

Export every care home, home care agency, GP practice, dentist, clinic, and hospital regulated by the **Care Quality Commission** in England, about 56,000 active locations, with their **CQC ratings**, care home bed numbers, services, specialisms, provider details, and coordinates. Built for care-sector suppliers and recruiters, healthcare market analysts, investors screening care groups, placement and comparison services, and AI agents that need reliable CQC facts.

### What you get

For every location: CQC location ID, name, care home flag and bed count, sector and inspection category, latest overall rating with publication date, phone, website, full address, latitude and longitude, region, local authority, constituency and ICB, regulated activities, service types, service user bands (Dementia, Older People, Children, Mental Health, ...), brand, and a link to the CQC page. Provider details include the CQC provider ID, name, ownership type, **Companies House number**, **charity number**, phone, website, and address. With **Add key question ratings** on (default), each record also carries the latest Safe, Effective, Caring, Responsive, and Well-led ratings.

```json
{
  "location_id": "1-10000812939",
  "name": "Charlotte House",
  "care_home": true,
  "care_home_beds": 103,
  "primary_inspection_category": "Residential social care",
  "overall_rating": "Good",
  "key_question_ratings": {"safe": "Good", "effective": "Good", "caring": "Good", "responsive": "Good", "well_led": "Good"},
  "local_authority": "Wirral",
  "region": "North West",
  "service_types": ["Care home service with nursing"],
  "service_user_bands": ["Dementia", "Older People"],
  "provider": {"name": "Lovett Care Limited", "ownership_type": "Organisation", "companies_house_number": "..."},
  "cqc_url": "https://www.cqc.org.uk/location/1-10000812939"
}
```

### Filters

- **Care homes only** and **Minimum care home beds**.
- **Overall ratings**: Outstanding, Good, Requires improvement, Inadequate, Not rated.
- **Sectors**, **Service types**, **Service user bands**.
- **Regions**, **Local authorities**, **Postcode prefixes**.
- **Name contains**, **Provider or brand contains**, **CQC location IDs**.
- **Include dormant locations** (off by default).

### Pricing

Pay per event: one `location` event per record saved. Downloading and scanning the data costs you nothing. Set a maximum total charge and the Actor stops cleanly when it is reached. A full export of every active location runs in about two minutes.

### Data, licence, and privacy

Data comes from the data sheets CQC publishes each month, under the **Open Government Licence v3.0**. CQC asks re-users to acknowledge it as the source: "Contains CQC information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0". Each run reads the latest files.

The Actor never outputs personal names: registered managers, nominated individuals, and main partners are left out. Where the provider is an individual (for example a single-handed dentist), the provider's name, phone, and address are left out and only the service's own details are kept. The data has no email addresses.

# Actor input Schema

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many locations have been saved.

## `locationIds` (type: `array`):

Look up specific locations, for example 1-10000302982.

## `nameContains` (type: `string`):

Keep locations whose name contains this text.

## `providerContains` (type: `string`):

Keep locations whose provider or brand name contains this text, for example 'Barchester' or 'Bupa'.

## `careHomesOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Keep only care homes (with or without nursing).

## `minBeds` (type: `integer`):

Keep care homes with at least this many beds.

## `ratings` (type: `array`):

Keep locations with these latest overall ratings.

## `sectors` (type: `array`):

Keep locations of these CQC sector types.

## `serviceTypes` (type: `array`):

Keep locations offering any of these CQC service types, for example 'Care home service with nursing', 'Domiciliary care service', 'Dental service', 'Doctors consultation service'.

## `serviceUserBands` (type: `array`):

Keep locations serving any of these groups, for example Dementia, Older People, Children 0-18 years, Mental Health.

## `regions` (type: `array`):

Keep locations in these English regions.

## `localAuthorities` (type: `array`):

Keep locations in these local authorities, for example Leeds, Kent, or Wirral.

## `postcodePrefixes` (type: `array`):

Keep locations whose postcode starts with any of these, for example M, LS1, or SW1A.

## `includeDormant` (type: `boolean`):

Also return locations CQC marks as dormant.

## `includeKeyQuestionRatings` (type: `boolean`):

Add the latest Safe, Effective, Caring, Responsive, and Well-led ratings for each location. Adds about 30 MB of download and 30 seconds.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "maxItems": 1000,
  "careHomesOnly": false,
  "includeDormant": false,
  "includeKeyQuestionRatings": true
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("tapedawn/cqc-care-directory").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("tapedawn/cqc-care-directory").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call tapedawn/cqc-care-directory --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,tapedawn/cqc-care-directory"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/EfVrqkGLrkKT2s1M9/builds/NFwXxqJtcpbQmcfVu/openapi.json