GeraClinic / Care Home Ratings Index / Methodology
How the Gera Care Home Ratings Index is calculated
A single 0–100 score, computed only from the real CQC ratings. Nothing here is estimated or invented — this page gives the exact weights, the formula, and a worked national example you can reproduce from the published CQC counts.
What the index is
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) gives every care home it inspects one of four categorical overall ratings — Outstanding, Good, Requires improvement or Inadequate. The CQC does not publish any 0–100 or 0–5 numeric score. The Gera Care Home Ratings Index is a single 0–100 number that summarises the mix of those real CQC ratings so that England and its regions can be compared at a glance. Higher = more homes rated Good or Outstanding.
Gera is not the CQC and does not inspect, rate or accredit care homes. The index simply aggregates the CQC’s own published ratings.
The formula
Rating weights
- Outstanding = 4
- Good = 3
- Requires improvement = 2
- Inadequate = 1
Weighted mean (1–4)
meanWeight = (4·Outstanding + 3·Good + 2·Requires improvement + 1·Inadequate) / total rated
Rescale onto 0–100
Index = (meanWeight − 1) / 3 × 100
The 1–4 range maps to 0–100 so that an all-Inadequate set scores 0 and an all-Outstanding set scores 100. The weights are a documented Gera editorial choice; every input count is the real published CQC number.
Worked example — England, 1 June 2026
Using the real CQC counts for the 13,628 rated care homes in England:
| Rating | Weight | Homes | Weight × homes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Outstanding | 4 | 610 | 2,440 |
| Good | 3 | 10,664 | 31,992 |
| Requires improvement | 2 | 2,233 | 4,466 |
| Inadequate | 1 | 121 | 121 |
| Total | — | 13,628 | 39,019 |
meanWeight = 39,019 / 13,628 = 2.863
Index = (2.863 − 1) / 3 × 100 = 62.1
Gera Care Home Ratings Index (England) = 62.1 / 100
For context, 82.7% of these homes are rated Good or Outstanding. The same formula is applied to each of the 9 CQC regions on the index page.
What this index does NOT show
- It is not a CQC score. The CQC publishes categorical ratings only. This 0–100 figure is Gera’s summary of those ratings, not an official regulator metric.
- It is a snapshot. It reflects the CQC directory dated 1 June 2026. Individual homes are re-rated on the CQC’s own inspection cycle — always confirm a specific home’s current rating on the CQC website.
- It counts homes, not beds or residents. A region with many small homes and one with a few large homes are weighted by number of rated locations, not capacity.
- Unrated homes are excluded. Homes recorded as Not rated, Not yet inspected or with no published overall rating are left out of every count — they are never estimated or inferred.
Provenance & licence
Published 3 July 2026; recomputed on each CQC directory release. Every figure traces to the source below. Contains public sector information from the Care Quality Commission, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Contains public sector information published by Care Quality Commission and licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Care Quality Commission — Care directory with ratings (Latest ratings) (1 June 2026, published 1 June 2026).