What is the Gera Provider Quality Score?

The Gera Provider Quality Score (GPQS) is a single 0-100 figure summarising the distribution of CQC ratings across a group of services. It weights each rating (Outstanding 4, Good 3, Requires improvement 2, Inadequate 1), takes the mean, and rescales it onto 0-100. England-wide across all rated services it is 63.7, from 30,717 CQC-rated locations.

Is the Gera Provider Quality Score a rating of an individual provider?

No. The GPQS only ever describes a GROUP of services (a service type, a region, or a service type within a region). It is a transparent summary of CQC’s own ratings for that group. CQC remains the sole authority on the rating of any individual provider, which Gera reports exactly as CQC published it.

Is the score reproducible?

Yes. Every input is the real, published CQC 1 June 2026 'Care directory with ratings' open data under the Open Government Licence v3.0. The formula above is the complete calculation — anyone can download the same file and reproduce every score exactly. Gera invents no numbers.

Why exclude unrated locations?

Many CQC-registered locations (for example most dental practices) are regulated but not given an overall rating under the comprehensive inspection scheme. Including them as a zero would understate quality and misrepresent the data, so they are excluded from both the rating distribution and the score. Only locations with a real published overall rating are counted.

Which service type scores highest?

On the 1 June 2026 data, gp practices score highest on the Gera Provider Quality Score (66.7/100, 95.6% Good or Outstanding), and mental health services lowest (61.2/100). All figures are CQC’s own ratings, aggregated by Gera.

Gera Provider Quality Score — Methodology

The complete, reproducible formula behind the Gera Provider Quality Score, computed only from real CQC 1 June 2026 ratings.

The formula

weightedMean = (4·Outstanding + 3·Good + 2·RequiresImprovement + 1·Inadequate) ÷ ratedTotal

GPQS = round( (weightedMean − 1) ÷ 3 × 100 , 1 )

where ratedTotal counts only locations with a published CQC overall rating. All-Outstanding scores 100, all-Good scores ≈ 66.7, all-Inadequate scores 0.

Step by step

Take the real CQC ratings. For a chosen group of services (a service type, a region, or a service type within a region), read each location's official CQC overall rating from the CQC 'Care directory with ratings' open data (1 June 2026). Locations without a published overall rating (Not rated, Not applicable, Insufficient evidence to rate, or blank) are excluded — never inferred.
Weight each rating. Assign each rating a weight: Outstanding = 4, Good = 3, Requires improvement = 2, Inadequate = 1. These are the only judgement values, and they match the four-point ordering CQC itself uses.
Compute the weighted mean. weightedMean = (4 × Outstanding + 3 × Good + 2 × Requires improvement + 1 × Inadequate) ÷ total rated locations. This is the average rating on a 1-4 scale.
Rescale onto 0-100. GPQS = (weightedMean − 1) ÷ 3 × 100, rounded to one decimal place. An all-Inadequate group scores 0; an all-Outstanding group scores 100; an all-Good group scores about 66.7.

Gera Provider Quality Score by service type (1 June 2026)

Gera Provider Quality Score by CQC service type
Service type	Rated services	Good or Outstanding	Gera Provider Quality Score
Care homes	13,628	82.7%	62.1 / 100
Homecare & community adult social care	9,289	87.7%	64 / 100
GP practices	6,141	95.6%	66.7 / 100
Hospitals & hospices	1,420	82.3%	64.1 / 100
Mental health services	239	79.1%	61.2 / 100

For context, the England-wide Gera Provider Quality Score across all 30,717 rated services is 63.7/100, with 86.8% rated Good or Outstanding.

Why this score, and what it is not

A list of four rating bands is hard to compare across regions and service types at a glance. The Gera Provider Quality Score collapses the distribution into one transparent, reproducible 0-100 number so two areas can be compared directly. It summarises CQC's own ratings for a group of services — it is not a Gera rating of any individual provider, and it does not replace reading the latest CQC report before you choose care.

Gera Provider Quality Score: frequently asked questions

What is the Gera Provider Quality Score?: The Gera Provider Quality Score (GPQS) is a single 0-100 figure summarising the distribution of CQC ratings across a group of services. It weights each rating (Outstanding 4, Good 3, Requires improvement 2, Inadequate 1), takes the mean, and rescales it onto 0-100. England-wide across all rated services it is 63.7, from 30,717 CQC-rated locations.
Is the Gera Provider Quality Score a rating of an individual provider?: No. The GPQS only ever describes a GROUP of services (a service type, a region, or a service type within a region). It is a transparent summary of CQC’s own ratings for that group. CQC remains the sole authority on the rating of any individual provider, which Gera reports exactly as CQC published it.
Is the score reproducible?: Yes. Every input is the real, published CQC 1 June 2026 'Care directory with ratings' open data under the Open Government Licence v3.0. The formula above is the complete calculation — anyone can download the same file and reproduce every score exactly. Gera invents no numbers.
Why exclude unrated locations?: Many CQC-registered locations (for example most dental practices) are regulated but not given an overall rating under the comprehensive inspection scheme. Including them as a zero would understate quality and misrepresent the data, so they are excluded from both the rating distribution and the score. Only locations with a real published overall rating are counted.
Which service type scores highest?: On the 1 June 2026 data, gp practices score highest on the Gera Provider Quality Score (66.7/100, 95.6% Good or Outstanding), and mental health services lowest (61.2/100). All figures are CQC’s own ratings, aggregated by Gera.

Explore the data

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).