Creating a ratings poster in Photoshop

If you have had an assessment under our new approach, you must display your ratings online and at your physical premises.

We are developing a way to automatically create posters. In the meantime, you can use the templates on this page to create your own.

Read more about your duty to Display your ratings

Download the template

Download the first template to make a poster for your overall and key question ratings. If you are making a poster for an NHS trust that has had an inspection looking at the well-led key question, use the ratings poster template for well-led inspections.

If you have been given ratings for your activities at core service level, you will also need to download the additional poster template.

Using the overall and well-led rating poster templates

Use the overall rating poster template if you have been given an overall rating.

Use the well-led rating poster template if you are making a poster for an NHS trust that has had an inspection looking at the well-led key question.

There are two main steps to editing the file to create your poster:

1. editing four text fields
2. selecting the correct overall and key question ratings.

Editing the text fields

There are four text fields to update in the file. You can edit these by clicking on the default text and changing it to the relevant names, dates or IDs:

• The ‘Rating date’ field:
  This field currently has default text of INSERT DATE HERE and appears at the top right of the poster. If you want to exactly match our other posters, we use the date format D Month YYYY (e.g. 1 January 2024). This should be the date shown as the publication date of your report on our website.
• The ‘Provider name’ field:
  This field currently has default text of INSERT PROVIDER NAME HERE and appears just below our logo at the top left of the poster. You do not need to use capital letters – our posters will show your provider and location names in the format you registered them.
• The ‘Location name’ field:
  This field currently has default text of INSERT LOCATION NAME HERE and appears just below the provider name field.
• The ‘Report link’ field:
  This field currently has default text of https://www.cqc.org.uk/location/LOCATIONIDHERE. You only need to edit the final part of the URL to include the location ID or your service.

Selecting the correct ratings

In order to make sure the poster shows the correct overall and key question ratings, you need to remove the layers for the other ratings.

• First, open the ‘Overall ratings’ group by clicking on the arrow to the left of its folder icon in the layers panel.
• Then either delete the layers for the three ratings you were not awarded or turn off their visibility by clicking the eye icon next to that rating in the layers panel. For example, if your overall rating is Outstanding then delete or switch off the visibility for Good, Requires improvement and Inadequate.
• Then open the ‘Key question ratings’ group and do the same for each of the five groups within it so you have the correct ratings displayed for Safe, Effective, Caring, Responsive and Well-led.

Save and print the poster

Your overall ratings poster should now look complete. You can now save it and print it.

Using the activity rating poster template

You only need to use the second template if you have been given ratings for your activities at core service level.

You create your activity rating poster in a similar way to the overall rating poster. Firstly, edit the four text fields as before, and then update the overall and core service ratings.

Editing the text fields

Follow the same process as before. The text layers that you need to update are all in the ‘Text fields’ folder in the layers panel.

Selecting the correct overall rating

As before, open the 'Overall ratings' folder in the layers panel and either delete the ratings that you were not awarded, or turn off their off their visibility.

Updating the core service ratings

Look in the 'Core service ratings' folder in the layers panel. You will see 10 core service folders.

Start with the 'Core service 1' folder.

• Replace the 'Insert core service name here' text with the name of the first core service
• Go through the safe, effective, caring, responsive, well-led and overall folders and either delete the ratings that you were not awarded, or turn off their off their visibility.

Continue through the other folders, updating them with information about your other core service ratings.

Delete or turn off visibility for any unused rows.

If you have ratings for more than 10 core services, add these to an additional poster.

Save and print the poster

Your activity ratings poster should now look complete. You can now save it and print it.