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Use our information to check care homes in England and the quality of their care.

Check the quality of care

We inspect and rate residential care homes and nursing homes. You can use our inspection reports and ratings to help you understand the quality of care.

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About the search results

On our page for each care home, you'll find:

  • the latest inspection report and ratings
  • older reports to download
  • information about who's responsible for running the home
  • contact details for the home.

If you're interested in services that are no longer registered with us, you can also find out how to search for the history of care.

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Inspection ratings

We rate most services according to how safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led they are, using four levels:

Green star Outstanding – the service is performing exceptionally well.
Green circle Good – the service is performing well and meeting our expectations.
Amber circle Requires improvement – the service isn't performing as well as it should and we have told the service how it must improve.
Red circle Inadequate – the service is performing badly and we've taken enforcement action against the provider of the service.
Grey circle No rating/under appeal/rating suspended – there are some services which we can’t rate, while some might be under appeal from the provider. Suspended ratings are being reviewed by us and will be published soon.
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Ticks and crosses

We don't rate every type of service. For services we haven't rated we use ticks and crosses to show whether we've asked them to take further action or taken enforcement action against them.

Green tick There's no need for the service to take further action. If this service has not had a CQC inspection since it registered with us, our judgement may be based on our assessment of declarations and evidence supplied by the service.
Grey cross The service must make improvements.
Red cross At least one standard in this area was not being met when we inspected the service and we have taken enforcement action.
More about services we haven't rated